+Simi Chan I recommend, as a wheelchair user, suggest to try a wheelchair around your home then you will see some of the issues firsthand. In my experience able bodied people are completely blind to building or designing a place that has easy wheelchair access. Samantha from the UK.
Simi Chan this one is ok standard type i wanna c A real accessible house with up stairs elevators or even roll up ramps instead of stairs i want 2 be able 2 go n2 every room closet etc.etc
Hope you have very deep pockets...$$$$$$$ As those items are so expensive and useless as a daily living obstacle. When you are paralyze it's all about how quickly things can be accomplished, not how much you have.
@@swal593868 yes I agree. My sister used a borrowed w/c and rolled around my house attempting to get it ready for me when I came home. They still had to move more things around. and take up the dang rug!!
Thank you for being clear about your injury level, I'm a 53 year old T3/4 complete and it drives me crazy when the injury level isn't given, I am not able to move like you, your a para rock star! You set a great example that life isn't over, just different. Thank you Brenda Landry
I've been in a wheelchair my whole life and have never even thought of doing some of these awesome modifications. (like the handle on the door going in from your garage - pure genius!!). Thank you for sharing. I showed hubby and hopefully we can use some of these ideas in our house too. :)
Hey thanks for sharing. You gave me a few ideas about what my husband and I can do to make our future home more accessible for me, I have Kniest Syndrome which is pretty rare.
you are such a great man! you carry yourself with dignity, simplicity and modesty. thanks for sharing and wishing youall the best.I am not sure if there is smth on this channel about bike accident and how your personal life has changed since then, if you managed to get a wife and children, how family supported you. just wishing you to live a long happy life with people you love and care about, may God bless you all
Thank you!! Yes I have several videos talking about my motorcycle accident, getting married and starting a family. Here’s a recent one. ua-cam.com/video/M-8u5Kpmspw/v-deo.html
I'm not handicapped in any way but I firmly believe most houses should be designed with maximum accessibility in mind. If i get the opportunity to design a house, I will be incorporating some of your ideas.
Dude, this was an awesome video. I hope one day that I could provide my brother with an accessible house like this. He really deserves it. You had such helpful ideas. Thanks!
@pedralis I think its a frigidaire front loader. The key is getting the pedistal drawers on the bottom...this makes it much easier to load and unload because you don't have to bend down.
Thanks for the helpful accessibility hints as I am looking to build a home. I have a mobile home presently that I had to gut-out to do all the changes as no floor plans are ever usable and MH's are notorious space wasters. I also did a compromise on the kitchen cabinets in order that my walking son cold use w/o bending too much and I could still reach. My next place will not be a compromise as it will be built specifically for me and another w/c bound buyer if it's sold after I pass on.
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I'm in a wheelchair. My apartment isn't completely accessable as it's a residential retirment complex.. although I'm the youngest here. Not quiet retirment age.. but l needed a flush floor bathroom an wider doors... But what I like most about the video is the extra handle you have to your front door. I have nearly come out of my chair many times... So tomorrow I'm off to buy one... You have some good tips.. thankyou
thank you for this video, will help me make adaptations to my next home, (finally won a claim) :D !!! so excited O_O WOOHOO!! :D when you said 100k on the kitchen i laughed O_O but i understood bugger charge anything for "special needs" -.- even if it costs them less to produce (not always)
I am designing a house with two stories. I'd like my first floor to be basically the same as yours, even though I am not in a wheelchair. I just figured with the longevity in my family, I'm likely to need one when I'm in my 90s, so might as well go ahead and build in accessibility now. The second story isn't as accessible, but the master bedroom is on the first floor so I guess it doesn't matter.
Not a bad idea! Actually I would really like my next house to have the same 1st floor master and 2 stories with an elevator but those alone are expensive so it may end up being another ranch.
@@ParalyzedLiving Maybe go ahead and design in a junction box with wiring near the stairs and make the stairs a little wider so you can easily install one of those chair lifts later in life without having to do major overhaul. That'll give you time to have the second floor and save up for the lift later and it will be plug and play when the time comes.
Did you ever get your back deck? I learned a lot from your video. Thank you for posting! Blessings, health, prosperity and peace to you and yours and to all who read this! 👍😘😇💖
One thing that would help folks to is having at least one set of GFCI plugs on the front of the counter or on the counter - so you can plug in small tools, etc. spice grinder, coffee grinder,toaster, coffee pot etc instead of having to have someone reach the wall ones.
Nice idea about the GFCI on the face of the cabinet. Also, if I'm not mistaken all GFCI's in the Kitchen are wired in parallel so that if one trips or becomes inoperable, the rest still work. In most locals, 12/2 wire and a 20amp circuit is required for outlets on an outside wall. Just an FYI. Thanks
that's a damn good idea! i'm gonna remember that when i do my bathroom and kitchen remodels. YES! awesome idea. that's not hard or expensive to do either. that's a very cheap remedy to what i would imagine is a big problem for someone with limited mobility especially someone stuck in a wheel chair. yep. awesome idea
Thank you for creating this video! It's so helpful to see how other people get around with a wheelchair in their home! It's especially helpful to see how you've adapted your bathroom. We really need to do more to ours for our son. Thanks again!
Hey, great video, good camera person too, I liked the giggle! The second door handle is cool, I will steal that one from you. In the shower I added a second 'hook' for the shower head, I stole the idea from a camper I had. It also has a second shutoff like yours, but a second lower hook lets me have both hands free and still have the water spraying. I have not done it yet, but I want to add a cooktop only instead of a traditioanal stove with an oven. Then maybe have a wall mounted (higher) oven.
Thank you so much for this video! There are some really helpful tips here such as raising the outlets and lowering the light switches. I was kind of surprised that the floor to the shower is not flush with the floor for ease of entry and exit. Was that a design choice or was it prohibitive in cost to implement? I also liked the widened doorways. I believe that is essential for ppl in chairs. My fave is the front ramp. It's esthetically pleasing to the front of the home. Great job! Thanks again!
HA! I might try the bucket on my lap to brush my teeth... I've been perfecting the long spit into the sink and a towel I use as a bib. Not very lady like.
nice! I love the extra handle on the garage door and I'm so wasting space using my washer and dryer drawers, where did you find the dividers for those drawers?
Learned two great things!!!! Thank you so much!!! Second handle on the door!! I showed my husband and he just laughed!!! Such a simple fix, never thought of, and he’s been pretty ingenious coming up with adaptability issues as we live in a split foyer!! Ha ha ha ! Also, the shut off shower head!!! Love that!! Thanks so much for the tips!!! Your house is beautiful!!
+1 on the extra handle, though I am mastering the trick of getting the door in motion and wheeling myself out and the door closes itself behind me, not all the way but certainly within easy reach. Another thing we did to our existing house was to remove all doors we did not need, for example the door into the bathroom from the bedroom. It adds another couple of inches. Keep the videos coming, Brian!
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My husband built a ramp inside the garage for me. In Minnesota this is a huge blessing. Keeps us out of weather and no one driving by would know a physically challenged person lives there. Lever handles on doors are good as well. Love your closet!
Space, money and necessity had a lot to do with going with a standard shower. I’m able to use it so that was my main objective but there are certainly things I would change. I’m also not a huge fan of most “roll in” showers because water inevitably gets out of the shower and onto the floor. With more space, this could be avoided though. This house just wasn’t big enough for that.
I like it very much. I also have a house that is made for me. I was able to design my house and then have it built. Just you made the modifications to the design before or as it was built - that is the best way to go to cost less. I made similar design considerations as you did. One major difference was that I asked the builder to make the floor level of the house be the same as the entrance level of the garage floor and the entrances from the front door and the back doors. There is still a crawl way under the floor of the house - but that is dug down just a little more. That should have been down a little more due to the slightly restrictive space under there. My house was built in 1975 which is a long time now, but it was the best use of the money that I had available and I didn't realize that it was the best investment I could have made at the time. I got married about 2 years after that (unfortunately that changed 20 years later). Your idea of those handles on the hinge side of the door is a great idea. I will do that too. A non-disabled person reading that will think - big deal. But when that door swings away from you and you can't just reach over, it is easier to grab at that side. Besides the floor levels being a difference I have pocket doors for all the interior doors because I didn't want to give up the space that the swinging doors use in all the rooms - but mainly the bathrooms.
My biggest regret with this house is that the garage entrance and front entrance are not level to the ground. I love working in my garage and hate that 1/4 is taken up by a ramp. The builder said this was the only way though...I think they could have worked around it.
blackpearlv6 I remember now there was an issue with the foundation vents on my house. Here and in most states the crawl space under the house must be ventilated to keep moisture from building up under the house floor. If your house has a cement floor throughout then this would not be an issue. If there must be a crawl space then the ventilation must be provided for on all sides of the foundation. WELL, on my house the builder had the bright idea to use heating ductwork to make a right angle ventilation access hole from the top of the cement (sidewalk on the front and the driveway and patio at another point on the foundation). This gave blow threw from all angles of the house. A house heating vent cover is used to cover the hole so I wouldn't fall into the hole if I came close to the area. I didn't hear if there was an issue from the building inspector about these unconventional solutions, but it went threw the building process anyway. For the entry point to get into the crawl space (for a person to work on something under the house) they simply put a metal barrier to keep the dirt from the backyard from encroaching on the crawl space entry hole through the foundation. For the threshold of the doors to the front door and the garage door I use a minimal bump and then something that drops down from the door to the threshold to seal the wind from blowing threw. I love it that way and I can roll threw the doors very nicely. Were these issues his problems with trying to make the house entries level? It's too bad that he didn't try to make it level - I agree that this is a major point for me too.
As an able bodied person I STILL thought the extra door handle was a superb idea! I live in a house currently that has a really awkward reach to get the door handle when I leave the house (You step down about 7 inches as you leave) and I'm constantly grabbing the little rim around the door window to get the door started. It's a rental so I won't be fixing that issue but I actually really like the idea of adding either an extra handle or designing the door with some sort of useful grippy spot near the hinge!
My accident was 3 yrs ago (T3). I'm still having a hard time adapting. Your videos have inspired me. I'm currently searching for a home and have an idea of what to ask for. Thank you.
Well thought out. It's the small things that can make life so much easier. Good job. Thanks for sharing. I live in a house built in 1890 so i fully appreciate wide doors and hardwood floors. I've been a paraplegic 47 years so I've seen it all in rent houses and apartments. You got it goin on man! I'm going to send this to a few of my disabled veteran friends. Salute! Sgt. Terry.
Excellent adaptations! My favorites are the additional handle on the garage door and the relocation of the drain/disposal in the kitchen sink. Quite clever and forward thinking. ❤
I'm building an apartment onto the house I currently live in (It's two-story, soooo... Wasn't gonna work with a chair!), and this helped give me some pointers I hadn't thought of! (The extra handle on the garage door and the indented/cut out bottoms of the cabinets in the kitchen, especially!)
Thanks for the informative video. I am using it in my high school Housing and Interior Design class to show how different human needs affect housing needs.
I noticed something 'accessible' that you didn't point out in the kitchen. The stove! Very helpful to have a stove where the dials are on the front, can be dangerous to be in a sitting position and leaning across the stove to adjust the temperature of a burner. Great video :)
I'm in a rental with a traditional electric stove with nobs on the back, all set in between cabinets. I have a wooden heavy duty 12-inch pair of tongs that allow me to grab any of the knobs and turn with ease, even over hot pots of cooking food. There's a very thin pair for grabbing and removing things from the toaster without fuss, bother, or burning my fingers.
Good for you, I have a cousin, she was paralyzed when she was 18, her apartment is half way accessible for her, she lives on the 16 floor, but thank god the elevator works good,love your beautiful house enjoy it God bless, you keep everything so nice & neat😀
You may be disabled but you are not handicapped. You are willing and you are inspiration to enjoy life in every way because you CAN! My best wishes and blessings to YOU!
It's a great house. Maybe some amenities like Straps and handles to lift yoursefl up and get in the shower. Great presentation. It gives a lot ideas... Good Job!!
My daughter and her husband are both in power wheelchairs. As the mother of three children with cerebral palsy, you would think I would have come up with the second handle idea. :) Brilliant. I will tell my daughter and her husband about the modifications you've made without sacrificing the re-sale value of your home. Thanks for posting!
thank you for the video,Im a new wheelchair group and I don't have idea when I'm home. everything gonna be so different! there is lot thing I couldn't do like you did.
Thanks for doing this video. I am new to the wheelchair world and what you explain is just great information. I live in an older house in California and it's not horrible but far from ideal. Next house we will be taking your advice. Again thanks and Well Done.
try living in the uk, the government and local councils get the cheapest cowboys to do adaptations and do it badly and mine took 3 years to sort out when my condition got worse over night when i ruined my elbow and couldn't transfer anymore, even then i had to spend over £1,000 fixing their mistakes and adding a bath, this country is terrible for people in wheelchairs
The difference is that your government actually DOES intercede and assist you with adaptations (as they are medically necessary). Here in the US, we have to come up with our own money for everything; when I bought my house, I had to buy the house, then pay for the permits, then buy the materials, then get the work done to just get INTO the house and function. It was essentially a gut-job, and I had to pay for all of it. The disability mods, to date, have cost almost as much as the house itself, and I'm still not really done. THAT is the fundamental difference. And don't forget -- we have to wait for things to get done, too. Because we're spending our own money or trying to scrounge for loans from banks, we have to get the best interest rates on everything, call a zillion contractors to get the best and most competitive quotes, and then teach, re-teach, and re-re-teach the contractors what must be done. Because they don't understand disability, it's a constant, unending struggle with them. My water heater is completely screwed up because it's in the basement and I can't get to my basement, so they just cheaped out and screwed me over. Just because they knew no one would see it until they left. And there's ZERO recourse, because it's all private; welcome to life in the US. OH! And don't forget we also have to constantly budget for our own healthcare! And the Republicans are are always trying to drive up the costs of that and strip it from the most needy. It's a real laugh riot here. *sigh*
I am STILL paying for my modifications and STILL teaching handymen and contractors how to do their jobs! Thankfully, I am covered medically by the VA and when I manage through thriftiness to have excess supplies and stuff, I donate them to needy w/c an poor medical needy folks. I am on a disability pension and do manage to save by being thoughtful in spending, but repairs to a handicap van and a mobile home usually eat any savings quickly. as for the political statement....I don't see either the Dems or Repubs as either helpful to the plight of disabled people, let alone walking ones. they are both evil and out for themselves only.
Helpful…thank you. We are building a vacation rental studio on our property in Montana and want to make it wheel chair accessible because there aren’t any accommodations that offer that. Your tour showed a great blend of standard building features and specialized features that work together.
Hi Brian, Thank you for posting all your videos. Your truly are an inspiration! I'm getting my degree in occupational therapy right now and only after seeing your videos, do I fully understand the importance of a person's performance skills, the impact of their environment...It's truly amazing all the modifications you've done to your house and to the bike! I'm so glad to see you riding again (even though it's scary to watch you make all those crazy turns! :) Again, thank you for sharing!
Brian, can you do this with a power chair? Thank you for your videos, you are a real help. Most informative of all the videos. Keep those videos coming please!
Hey brother nice home, how much I have spend to build a home like yours, it has 3 bedrooms and 2 Baths is that correct,? in what size of terrain the house were built?
First off let me say that you are too handsome :). 2nd what a beautiful home you have I love it . Thanks for sharing . Lots of helpful info on materials etc here . :)
@@ParalyzedLiving Hi Brian, first let me say that you are a handsome man! What a beautiful home you have and you loved it! Lots of helpful materials you have. Thank you for sharing your lovely video. Kind regards, from, PaulLaw.
We are hoping to build a handicap accessible home within a couple years. My daughter is 5 and has cerebral palsy (and a severe seizure disorder called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome). She uses a manual chair and I hope someday she will use a walker, but either way, we need an accessible home. You gave some really great tips that I would never have thought of, so thank you for posting this! Maybe someday I'll be able to post a video about our accessible home.
Thanks for sharing! I'm rapidly losing mobility due to a neurological disorder, so I'm becoming more reliant on a wheelchair daily. We have modified our home a lot but this gives us more ideas. Also, we will be adding an addition to our home in a few years. So we will definitely use other modifications in the addition. Thanks again.
This video was helpful for me as I am a person in a wheelchair I have been always looking for whatever information available to make my life easy and adaptable. Thank you
Very cool! Thank-you for sharing! I am putting this on my ADA Pinterest Board for my ADA Real Estate practice in Central Texas! Hope you get your deck soon!!!
Sarah very good question even in most long term care there is realy good design for wheelchair use in bathrooms or at sinks let alone out in the public
Sarah 2 - Able-bodied people don't think of these things because it isn't within the realm of their everyday experience / reality. Even if you live with and care for someone who is wheelchair-bound, it is not the same thing as being in that chair. I care for a disabled loved one who is wheelchair bound and while I am more sensitive than most able-bodied persons to the challenges involved, I still learned a few very good things from this gentleman's video.
sarah... its not people's fault. nobody realizes how good they have it until those lose something and have to make do without. i work in construction and a big part of my job is engineering the actual work that has to be done and how its going to get done. what is the easiest and safest and most productive way to get something done? its part of my trade to constantly think about such things. most people don't think like that. on the job its about building highrise buildings maybe, but in this case its about getting out of bed and into the shower and then getting dressed and then starting your day - how to do it in a wheelchair? its takes some thinking. me personally? i'm thinking the very best way to see if i get it right is to literally rope up my legs and plant my ass in a wheel chair and try it myself. if i can't do it then obviously a person in a wheel chair probably can't do it. nobody thinks of these things until they themselves have to deal with it. this video is very helpful in that it comes from someone that deals with these challenges on a daily basis. a person in a wheelchair is going to be a subject matter expert on the topic.
Thank you so much man. My wife is in a wheelchair right now after damaging both her legs in a car accident and its more long term than we thought so all this information is great. Thanks man.
How insightful he really did put a lot of thought into his home and whoever owns it after him. Love the great ideas like the space in the laundry room. Handle on the garage door, and the space under the sinks. I haven't been in my chair for very long. But I have lived in my apartment for over 6 years. I am just now talking with management about adapting a ADA apartment for me. I wrote down his changes like the space under sinks lower kitchen, lower lights switches and higher plug ins. Just talking to them about widened the doorways has been a hassle, but this is for me not them and the Government has standards they must abide to. So thank you Kenny for your informative video and I know it has been 10 years I do hope you are doing well and still happy with your home you did a great job
DO NOT GET A DECK! We had a deck on the back of our house. The deck got changed out for a porch. The porch was covered and screened. Much better than a deck. If you put on a deck try to convert it to a porch with full screens. Push the bugs back.
I cam across this today and though I'd share my renovated universal design Condo in the Short North, its currently on Trulia 845 North High Street Unit 201.
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Nice house....as a disabled for 40 years , is the first time I see a real explanation...thanks and sorry for my poor english
Im studying Interior design, this video helped me a lot in learning how to cater for disabled people. Thanks
+Simi Chan I recommend, as a wheelchair user, suggest to try a wheelchair around your home then you will see some of the issues firsthand. In my experience able bodied people are completely blind to building or designing a place that has easy wheelchair access. Samantha from the UK.
Simi Chan this one is ok standard type i wanna c A real accessible house with up stairs elevators or even roll up ramps instead of stairs i want 2 be able 2 go n2 every room closet etc.etc
Hope you have very deep pockets...$$$$$$$ As those items are so expensive and useless as a daily living obstacle. When you are paralyze it's all about how quickly things can be accomplished, not how much you have.
@@swal593868 yes I agree. My sister used a borrowed w/c and rolled around my house attempting to get it ready for me when I came home. They still had to move more things around. and take up the dang rug!!
Please consider pocket doors or sliding barn style doors when it is possible.
Thank you for being clear about your injury level, I'm a 53 year old T3/4 complete and it drives me crazy when the injury level isn't given, I am not able to move like you, your a para rock star! You set a great example that life isn't over, just different. Thank you Brenda Landry
as an occupational therapist I find these videos helpful, thanks!
I've been in a wheelchair my whole life and have never even thought of doing some of these awesome modifications. (like the handle on the door going in from your garage - pure genius!!). Thank you for sharing. I showed hubby and hopefully we can use some of these ideas in our house too. :)
Hey thanks for sharing. You gave me a few ideas about what my husband and I can do to make our future home more accessible for me, I have Kniest Syndrome which is pretty rare.
Nice home! Shows a lot of good ideas people who use wheelchairs and others could use
I came across your video and I must admit you have such a beautiful lovely home and may god bless your soul.
you are such a great man! you carry yourself with dignity, simplicity and modesty. thanks for sharing and wishing youall the best.I am not sure if there is smth on this channel about bike accident and how your personal life has changed since then, if you managed to get a wife and children, how family supported you. just wishing you to live a long happy life with people you love and care about, may God bless you all
Thank you!! Yes I have several videos talking about my motorcycle accident, getting married and starting a family. Here’s a recent one.
ua-cam.com/video/M-8u5Kpmspw/v-deo.html
I'm not handicapped in any way but I firmly believe most houses should be designed with maximum accessibility in mind. If i get the opportunity to design a house, I will be incorporating some of your ideas.
Hi brian . I think you are a great designer because you keep it easy. and really thank you for your video. Big hugs
you have a beautiful house and very nicely organized! Super job!!!
Thanks for sharing all your great ideas. The floors is a definite plus!
Thanks for this video. I’ll show this to my wife so we have an idea when we remodel our kitchen. Thank you!
Congrats on the new house.....great ideas.......
Thank you very much!!!! I am in the process of making my Airbnb accessible. Your video is SUPER helpful!!!
Dude, this was an awesome video. I hope one day that I could provide my brother with an accessible house like this. He really deserves it. You had such helpful ideas. Thanks!
I wish a had a home like this....it would make my life so much easier...
Thank you so very much for taking time to make this video! You are a wonderful man! God Bless and wishing you the best!❤️
GOD IS GOOD,,,YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION TO ALL, MOST ESPECIALLY PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE,,,GOD BLESS YOU,
Great video!!! and Congratulations for you accessible home it's great!!!, greetings from Mexico
@pedralis I think its a frigidaire front loader. The key is getting the pedistal drawers on the bottom...this makes it much easier to load and unload because you don't have to bend down.
That is seriously beautiful. Wow! That is the house of my dreams! I love the floors and the natural light.
@NazneenOT Thanks! I'm glad you like the vids. Good luck finishing your degree!
Very helpful thank you for your video uk resident
Once again brother. Your my hero!!!
I realize this is an older video but there isn't a whole lot of videos for this topic THANK YOU for all the insight!!!!
Do you still have this home? Where is the house located? I mean the city and state. Thank you
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Thanks for the helpful accessibility hints as I am looking to build a home. I have a mobile home presently that I had to gut-out to do all the changes as no floor plans are ever usable and MH's are notorious space wasters. I also did a compromise on the kitchen cabinets in order that my walking son cold use w/o bending too much and I could still reach. My next place will not be a compromise as it will be built specifically for me and another w/c bound buyer if it's sold after I pass on.
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I know it's been a long time since you made this lol but there are still people appreciating it.
Man, your house is AWESOME! I want like that too (I'm jealous right now, lol). Brian, you rock!!! You're an inspiration to me.
Glad you like it! Thanks for the feedback!!
I like it a lot. Everything about it is ideally and thoroughly planned for people with special needs. You have a great dog too. What's his name?
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Are you asking Brian Kinney or me?
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Thank you for posting this video, has a lot of details that can really help to design a good house.
I'm in a wheelchair. My apartment isn't completely accessable as it's a residential retirment complex.. although I'm the youngest here. Not quiet retirment age.. but l needed a flush floor bathroom an wider doors... But what I like most about the video is the extra handle you have to your front door. I have nearly come out of my chair many times... So tomorrow I'm off to buy one... You have some good tips.. thankyou
thank you for this video, will help me make adaptations to my next home, (finally won a claim) :D !!! so excited O_O WOOHOO!! :D when you said 100k on the kitchen i laughed O_O but i understood bugger charge anything for "special needs" -.- even if it costs them less to produce (not always)
Such a sweet guy! And lovely home you have there :)
I am designing a house with two stories. I'd like my first floor to be basically the same as yours, even though I am not in a wheelchair. I just figured with the longevity in my family, I'm likely to need one when I'm in my 90s, so might as well go ahead and build in accessibility now. The second story isn't as accessible, but the master bedroom is on the first floor so I guess it doesn't matter.
Not a bad idea! Actually I would really like my next house to have the same 1st floor master and 2 stories with an elevator but those alone are expensive so it may end up being another ranch.
@@ParalyzedLiving Maybe go ahead and design in a junction box with wiring near the stairs and make the stairs a little wider so you can easily install one of those chair lifts later in life without having to do major overhaul. That'll give you time to have the second floor and save up for the lift later and it will be plug and play when the time comes.
Did you ever get your back deck? I learned a lot from your video. Thank you for posting! Blessings, health, prosperity and peace to you and yours and to all who read this! 👍😘😇💖
Gorgeous home congratulations on your adventures with your loving companion
One thing that would help folks to is having at least one set of GFCI plugs on the front of the counter or on the counter - so you can plug in small tools, etc. spice grinder, coffee grinder,toaster, coffee pot etc instead of having to have someone reach the wall ones.
rosebudforglory that's a great idea! :)
Away from the sink if you do not have thoes outlets a serge protector can be used not recommended for microwaves or roster ovens
Nice idea about the GFCI on the face of the cabinet. Also, if I'm not mistaken all GFCI's in the Kitchen are wired in parallel so that if one trips or becomes inoperable, the rest still work. In most locals, 12/2 wire and a 20amp circuit is required for outlets on an outside wall. Just an FYI. Thanks
that's a damn good idea! i'm gonna remember that when i do my bathroom and kitchen remodels. YES! awesome idea. that's not hard or expensive to do either. that's a very cheap remedy to what i would imagine is a big problem for someone with limited mobility especially someone stuck in a wheel chair. yep. awesome idea
Thank you for creating this video! It's so helpful to see how other people get around with a wheelchair in their home! It's especially helpful to see how you've adapted your bathroom. We really need to do more to ours for our son. Thanks again!
Hey, great video, good camera person too, I liked the giggle! The second door handle is cool, I will steal that one from you. In the shower I added a second 'hook' for the shower head, I stole the idea from a camper I had. It also has a second shutoff like yours, but a second lower hook lets me have both hands free and still have the water spraying. I have not done it yet, but I want to add a cooktop only instead of a traditioanal stove with an oven. Then maybe have a wall mounted (higher) oven.
Thank you so much for this video! There are some really helpful tips here such as raising the outlets and lowering the light switches. I was kind of surprised that the floor to the shower is not flush with the floor for ease of entry and exit. Was that a design choice or was it prohibitive in cost to implement? I also liked the widened doorways. I believe that is essential for ppl in chairs. My fave is the front ramp. It's esthetically pleasing to the front of the home. Great job! Thanks again!
Nice looking home! I like pocket doors and the wider the doorway the better. The bump, bang, bump going in and out of doorways gets old.
p.s. I love your little buddy, such a ham :)
I love your videos! God bless. 😘🙇♂️
HA! I might try the bucket on my lap to brush my teeth... I've been perfecting the long spit into the sink and a towel I use as a bib. Not very lady like.
nice! I love the extra handle on the garage door and I'm so wasting space using my washer and dryer drawers, where did you find the dividers for those drawers?
roxyfur The dividers came with the washer and dryer. The drawers are definitely useful!
Paralyzed Living Thanks, Brian ... I sent you a message on your channel, can you please contact me?
Omg i really love what you are doing whit all these video’s
Great Video! The extra handle on the door is genius.
I never heard, or thought of doing that.
Learned two great things!!!! Thank you so much!!! Second handle on the door!! I showed my husband and he just laughed!!! Such a simple fix, never thought of, and he’s been pretty ingenious coming up with adaptability issues as we live in a split foyer!! Ha ha ha ! Also, the shut off shower head!!! Love that!! Thanks so much for the tips!!! Your house is beautiful!!
Hi Brian thanks for your video
+1 on the extra handle, though I am mastering the trick of getting the door in motion and wheeling myself out and the door closes itself behind me, not all the way but certainly within easy reach. Another thing we did to our existing house was to remove all doors we did not need, for example the door into the bathroom from the bedroom. It adds another couple of inches. Keep the videos coming, Brian!
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My husband built a ramp inside the garage for me. In Minnesota this is a huge blessing. Keeps us out of weather and no one driving by would know a physically challenged person lives there. Lever handles on doors are good as well. Love your closet!
Awesome home - one thing I would change is the bathroom - a wet wall shower would be easier I would have thought?
Space, money and necessity had a lot to do with going with a standard shower. I’m able to use it so that was my main objective but there are certainly things I would change. I’m also not a huge fan of most “roll in” showers because water inevitably gets out of the shower and onto the floor. With more space, this could be avoided though. This house just wasn’t big enough for that.
I like it very much. I also have a house that is made for me. I was able to design my house and then have it built. Just you made the modifications to the design before or as it was built - that is the best way to go to cost less.
I made similar design considerations as you did. One major difference was that I asked the builder to make the floor level of the house be the same as the entrance level of the garage floor and the entrances from the front door and the back doors. There is still a crawl way under the floor of the house - but that is dug down just a little more. That should have been down a little more due to the slightly restrictive space under there. My house was built in 1975 which is a long time now, but it was the best use of the money that I had available and I didn't realize that it was the best investment I could have made at the time. I got married about 2 years after that (unfortunately that changed 20 years later).
Your idea of those handles on the hinge side of the door is a great idea. I will do that too. A non-disabled person reading that will think - big deal. But when that door swings away from you and you can't just reach over, it is easier to grab at that side.
Besides the floor levels being a difference I have pocket doors for all the interior doors because I didn't want to give up the space that the swinging doors use in all the rooms - but mainly the bathrooms.
My biggest regret with this house is that the garage entrance and front entrance are not level to the ground. I love working in my garage and hate that 1/4 is taken up by a ramp. The builder said this was the only way though...I think they could have worked around it.
blackpearlv6 I remember now there was an issue with the foundation vents on my house. Here and in most states the crawl space under the house must be ventilated to keep moisture from building up under the house floor. If your house has a cement floor throughout then this would not be an issue.
If there must be a crawl space then the ventilation must be provided for on all sides of the foundation. WELL, on my house the builder had the bright idea to use heating ductwork to make a right angle ventilation access hole from the top of the cement (sidewalk on the front and the driveway and patio at another point on the foundation). This gave blow threw from all angles of the house. A house heating vent cover is used to cover the hole so I wouldn't fall into the hole if I came close to the area. I didn't hear if there was an issue from the building inspector about these unconventional solutions, but it went threw the building process anyway.
For the entry point to get into the crawl space (for a person to work on something under the house) they simply put a metal barrier to keep the dirt from the backyard from encroaching on the crawl space entry hole through the foundation.
For the threshold of the doors to the front door and the garage door I use a minimal bump and then something that drops down from the door to the threshold to seal the wind from blowing threw. I love it that way and I can roll threw the doors very nicely.
Were these issues his problems with trying to make the house entries level? It's too bad that he didn't try to make it level - I agree that this is a major point for me too.
As an able bodied person I STILL thought the extra door handle was a superb idea! I live in a house currently that has a really awkward reach to get the door handle when I leave the house (You step down about 7 inches as you leave) and I'm constantly grabbing the little rim around the door window to get the door started. It's a rental so I won't be fixing that issue but I actually really like the idea of adding either an extra handle or designing the door with some sort of useful grippy spot near the hinge!
Thanks for sharing
My accident was 3 yrs ago (T3). I'm still having a hard time adapting. Your videos have inspired me. I'm currently searching for a home and have an idea of what to ask for. Thank you.
Well thought out. It's the small things that can make life so much easier. Good job. Thanks for sharing. I live in a house built in 1890 so i fully appreciate wide doors and hardwood floors. I've been a paraplegic 47 years so I've seen it all in rent houses and apartments. You got it goin on man! I'm going to send this to a few of my disabled veteran friends. Salute! Sgt. Terry.
Thanks for leaving a comment! I am honored Sgt. Terry!
@@ParalyzedLiving Hi Brian, great video. Help us architect to improve. Kind regards, from, PaulLaw.
Excellent adaptations! My favorites are the additional handle on the garage door and the relocation of the drain/disposal in the kitchen sink. Quite clever and forward thinking. ❤
I'm building an apartment onto the house I currently live in (It's two-story, soooo... Wasn't gonna work with a chair!), and this helped give me some pointers I hadn't thought of! (The extra handle on the garage door and the indented/cut out bottoms of the cabinets in the kitchen, especially!)
Thanks for the informative video. I am using it in my high school Housing and Interior Design class to show how different human needs affect housing needs.
+Trude Sowada Glad it helped!
I noticed something 'accessible' that you didn't point out in the kitchen. The stove! Very helpful to have a stove where the dials are on the front, can be dangerous to be in a sitting position and leaning across the stove to adjust the temperature of a burner.
Great video :)
I'm in a rental with a traditional electric stove with nobs on the back, all set in between cabinets. I have a wooden heavy duty 12-inch pair of tongs that allow me to grab any of the knobs and turn with ease, even over hot pots of cooking food. There's a very thin pair for grabbing and removing things from the toaster without fuss, bother, or burning my fingers.
BTW: I'm 70, and a waist-level paraplegic since 1966, 70 yrs old. Retired from a job as a data manager in a community health center.
Good for you, I have a cousin, she was paralyzed when she was 18, her apartment is half way accessible for her, she lives on the 16 floor, but thank god the elevator works good,love your beautiful house enjoy it God bless, you keep everything so nice & neat😀
You may be disabled but you are not handicapped. You are willing and you are inspiration to enjoy life in every way because you CAN! My best wishes and blessings to YOU!
It's a great house. Maybe some amenities like Straps and handles to lift yoursefl up and get in the shower.
Great presentation. It gives a lot ideas... Good Job!!
Awesome house man. Love all the creative touches! Great job
your really handsome, your videos help out alot of people
My daughter and her husband are both in power wheelchairs. As the mother of three children with cerebral palsy, you would think I would have come up with the second handle idea. :) Brilliant. I will tell my daughter and her husband about the modifications you've made without sacrificing the re-sale value of your home. Thanks for posting!
God bless you and ur family
thank you for the video,Im a new wheelchair group and I don't have idea when I'm home.
everything gonna be so different! there is lot thing I couldn't do like you did.
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Your house is absolutely gorgeous thanks for the video
Thanks for doing this video. I am new to the wheelchair world and what you explain is just great information. I live in an older house in California and it's not horrible but far from ideal. Next house we will be taking your advice. Again thanks and Well Done.
try living in the uk, the government and local councils get the cheapest cowboys to do adaptations and do it badly and mine took 3 years to sort out when my condition got worse over night when i ruined my elbow and couldn't transfer anymore, even then i had to spend over £1,000 fixing their mistakes and adding a bath, this country is terrible for people in wheelchairs
The difference is that your government actually DOES intercede and assist you with adaptations (as they are medically necessary). Here in the US, we have to come up with our own money for everything; when I bought my house, I had to buy the house, then pay for the permits, then buy the materials, then get the work done to just get INTO the house and function. It was essentially a gut-job, and I had to pay for all of it. The disability mods, to date, have cost almost as much as the house itself, and I'm still not really done. THAT is the fundamental difference. And don't forget -- we have to wait for things to get done, too. Because we're spending our own money or trying to scrounge for loans from banks, we have to get the best interest rates on everything, call a zillion contractors to get the best and most competitive quotes, and then teach, re-teach, and re-re-teach the contractors what must be done. Because they don't understand disability, it's a constant, unending struggle with them. My water heater is completely screwed up because it's in the basement and I can't get to my basement, so they just cheaped out and screwed me over. Just because they knew no one would see it until they left. And there's ZERO recourse, because it's all private; welcome to life in the US. OH! And don't forget we also have to constantly budget for our own healthcare! And the Republicans are are always trying to drive up the costs of that and strip it from the most needy. It's a real laugh riot here. *sigh*
I am STILL paying for my modifications and STILL teaching handymen and contractors how to do their jobs! Thankfully, I am covered medically by the VA and when I manage through thriftiness to have excess supplies and stuff, I donate them to needy w/c an poor medical needy folks. I am on a disability pension and do manage to save by being thoughtful in spending, but repairs to a handicap van and a mobile home usually eat any savings quickly. as for the political statement....I don't see either the Dems or Repubs as either helpful to the plight of disabled people, let alone walking ones. they are both evil and out for themselves only.
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Very nice house, very informative video. Thanks for sharing.
Helpful…thank you. We are building a vacation rental studio on our property in Montana and want to make it wheel chair accessible because there aren’t any accommodations that offer that. Your tour showed a great blend of standard building features and specialized features that work together.
Hi Brian,
Thank you for posting all your videos. Your truly are an inspiration! I'm getting my degree in occupational therapy right now and only after seeing your videos, do I fully understand the importance of a person's performance skills, the impact of their environment...It's truly amazing all the modifications you've done to your house and to the bike! I'm so glad to see you riding again (even though it's scary to watch you make all those crazy turns! :)
Again, thank you for sharing!
Brian, can you do this with a power chair? Thank you for your videos, you are a real help. Most informative of all the videos. Keep those videos coming please!
Beautiful home!
Hey brother nice home, how much I have spend to build a home like yours, it has 3 bedrooms and 2
Baths is that correct,? in what size of terrain the house were built?
Yes, 3 bedrooms and two baths. The house is in Ohio which is fairly flat but I do have a sloped back yard.
First off let me say that you are too handsome :). 2nd what a beautiful home you have I love it . Thanks for sharing . Lots of helpful info on materials etc here . :)
+Vanillawaffer07 Thanks so much for the compliments! Glad you liked the video. :)
@@ParalyzedLiving Hi Brian, first let me say that you are a handsome man! What a beautiful home you have and you loved it! Lots of helpful materials you have. Thank you for sharing your lovely video. Kind regards, from, PaulLaw.
I really appreciate your video. As an architect student, I want to design all my buildings to be inclusive for everyone
We are hoping to build a handicap accessible home within a couple years. My daughter is 5 and has cerebral palsy (and a severe seizure disorder called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome). She uses a manual chair and I hope someday she will use a walker, but either way, we need an accessible home. You gave some really great tips that I would never have thought of, so thank you for posting this! Maybe someday I'll be able to post a video about our accessible home.
Thanks for sharing! I'm rapidly losing mobility due to a neurological disorder, so I'm becoming more reliant on a wheelchair daily. We have modified our home a lot but this gives us more ideas. Also, we will be adding an addition to our home in a few years. So we will definitely use other modifications in the addition. Thanks again.
very nice house
Great ideas, Thanks liked your second handle idea too
This video was helpful for me as I am a person in a wheelchair I have been always looking for whatever information available to make my life easy and adaptable. Thank you
Great and helpful video. Thank you! What is the make and model of your wheelchair?
@TheKangarooguru when you can't feel it you can develop pressure sores
Very cool! Thank-you for sharing! I am putting this on my ADA Pinterest Board for my ADA Real Estate practice in Central Texas! Hope you get your deck soon!!!
why dont normal ppl think of these things for us.. .. they always say they understand.. bahha..
LIked it thx
Sarah very good question even in most long term care there is realy good design for wheelchair use in bathrooms or at sinks let alone out in the public
That was supposed to say rarely good design for wheelchair lol
sorry qre we abnormal?
Sarah 2 - Able-bodied people don't think of these things because it isn't within the realm of their everyday experience / reality. Even if you live with and care for someone who is wheelchair-bound, it is not the same thing as being in that chair. I care for a disabled loved one who is wheelchair bound and while I am more sensitive than most able-bodied persons to the challenges involved, I still learned a few very good things from this gentleman's video.
sarah... its not people's fault. nobody realizes how good they have it until those lose something and have to make do without. i work in construction and a big part of my job is engineering the actual work that has to be done and how its going to get done. what is the easiest and safest and most productive way to get something done? its part of my trade to constantly think about such things. most people don't think like that. on the job its about building highrise buildings maybe, but in this case its about getting out of bed and into the shower and then getting dressed and then starting your day - how to do it in a wheelchair? its takes some thinking. me personally? i'm thinking the very best way to see if i get it right is to literally rope up my legs and plant my ass in a wheel chair and try it myself. if i can't do it then obviously a person in a wheel chair probably can't do it. nobody thinks of these things until they themselves have to deal with it. this video is very helpful in that it comes from someone that deals with these challenges on a daily basis. a person in a wheelchair is going to be a subject matter expert on the topic.
Thank you so much man. My wife is in a wheelchair right now after damaging both her legs in a car accident and its more long term than we thought so all this information is great. Thanks man.
Planning to build a house soon so this video gave me some good tips man, thanks.
Wow... !!! It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks
Nice job
you are amazing) super house!
How insightful he really did put a lot of thought into his home and whoever owns it after him. Love the great ideas like the space in the laundry room. Handle on the garage door, and the space under the sinks. I haven't been in my chair for very long. But I have lived in my apartment for over 6 years. I am just now talking with management about adapting a ADA apartment for me. I wrote down his changes like the space under sinks lower kitchen, lower lights switches and higher plug ins. Just talking to them about widened the doorways has been a hassle, but this is for me not them and the Government has standards they must abide to. So thank you Kenny for your informative video and I know it has been 10 years I do hope you are doing well and still happy with your home you did a great job
DO NOT GET A DECK! We had a deck on the back of our house. The deck got changed out for a porch. The porch was covered and screened. Much better than a deck. If you put on a deck try to convert it to a porch with full screens. Push the bugs back.
Ok! Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo et d'avoir partagé votre intimité 🙂. Instructif 💯
I cam across this today and though I'd share my renovated universal design Condo in the Short North, its currently on Trulia 845 North High Street Unit 201.
I was in a motorcycle accident in Sept 2009. I'm a T1 complete.
You have an awesome house!