Project Notebook

Accessibility Is Important for Every Home

We’re seeing a lot of overlap when thinking about “shelter in place” and when designing for Aging in Place.

We’ve always talked with clients about ACCESSIBILITY and getting in and out of their homes, whether that’s through the front door or from the car in the garage. Those design considerations for Aging In Place clients are really more universal, and we are thinking about these principles for all of our clients. We all want our homes to be accommodating and we can start to think about that more expansively:

Category: On the Boards

Handprints

Groovy. Painted on the floor of a midcentury home’s utility/rec room. I love thinking about how the parents of these teenagers came around to handing their kids a couple of cans of paint and a paintbrush and let them loose. Maybe the slab painting wasn’t sanctioned. Regardless, the lingering effect of the graffiti on the floor for me was that someone had given the kids the opportunity to shape their space. The room was clearly their own: red and blue paint on the block walls, not quite adult handprints on the walls and floor, and “cool” and groovy” painted prominently on the floor.

Category: On the Boards

This Is How It Starts . . .

One of the downsides of my early morning boot camp is that the music will be on repeat in my head the rest of the day. Sometimes that is good. Sometimes, it is not. The other day, the Colbie Caillat song, “This Is How it Starts” got stuck.