Adapted house

Wheelchair accessible single-story house with garden

Description
This one-story house is at ground level; there are no differences in levels, only minimal thresholds.

Authors comments
The user and his wife built the house themselves. They started with a catalog design. The user’s sister-in-law is an architect and helped to modify the plan to make it accessible.

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Tip is dated from 2006

Categories for this tip
, Tips and tricks from people with High paraplegia with impaired balance (Th 2-10, ASIA A, B).

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