Residential Project: Creating An Accessible Home

With clever design and a range of features, this kitchen and bathroom by Colbran & Wingrove have now been adapted to provide a fully accessible space for owner, David, and his canine partner named Dalton.

• The bathroom has been re-configured to create a wet room with a wall-hung basin for knee clearance. A specialist washer-dryer WC unit has also been installed on a plinth to achieve a specific seat height.
• Further fittings include grab rails, a chrome heated towel rail, padded shower seat and non-slip flooring. The tiling scheme chosen by the owner is not only aesthetic but practical too, providing an easy to clean space.
• In the kitchen, a motorised rise and fall worktop forms a key part of the adaptations, and the room is host to a range of less obvious details too.
• These include a remote-controlled, automatic opening device to the kitchen window. Wide opening kitchen doors make for easy access and there is also a heat detector linked to a smoke detector.
• Additionally, our team created ramped access to the rear of the property and widened the internal doorways in the property.
• We carried out much of the work within a short timeframe while the owner, David, was out of the property to minimise inconvenience.
• To find out more about disabled adaptations you can contact our team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

July 2018