Inside the Home

Your Home can be Your Friend Again

For many people as they age or suffer with a disability, their home can become their enemy.

The Good News is that renovations can be done throughout every room in the home to make living easier, safer and more comfortable.  Plus, this will give adult children, family members and loved ones the peace of mind that more can be done independently without the help of others.

Take a look at these few options and then contact a Craftmaster professional to discuss your needs or schedule an assessment of your home.

Bathroom

• Install Grab bars or handrails
• Change standard faucets to lever handles
• Install temperature-control faucets and tub fixtures
• Lower or raise countertops and cabinets
• Install walk-in bathtub or shower seat
• Accommodate for walker or wheelchair turnaround
• More!  Go to Bathroom page for more ideas.

• Change standard faucets to lever handles
• Lower or raise countertops and cabinets
• Add easy-to-grasp cabinet knobs or pulls
• Add lighting under cabinets
• Install cabinets with pull-out shelving and/or lazy susans
• More!  Go to Kitchen page for more ideas.

• Widen doorways
• Change doorknobs to levers
• Make thresholds flush or maximum 1/4” height

• Install chair lifts
• Build ramps
• Adequate handrails on both sides of stairways
• Color contrast strips on edge of steps for increased visibility
• Install non-skid flooring
• Install lighting on stairways

• Widen hallways
• Indoor and Outdoor ramps
• Raise electrical outlets for easier access
• Adapt the lower floor of a home for possible one-level living
• Make the home as Barrier-Free as possible
• Lower window sills
• Non-skid flooring
• Install peepholes at low height
• Add brighter lighting throughout home
• Windows that can be opened with crank handles or other easy-to-use hardware

• Install intercoms
• Lower light switches
• Install light switches by each entrance to halls and rooms
• Use rocker or touch switches
• Install remote light and appliance controls
• Install telephones in bathroom or other rooms
• Television security monitors at main doorways
• Smoke detectors with strobe lights for hearing impaired