Enhance the value of the work you do with clients!
Most contractors have a list of generic recommendations to make a home “accessible” that focus on installing grab bars, ramps, or other wheelchair accessible features. However, designing for the variety of abilities and disabilities goes beyond the common, generic recommendations. It is really about helping clients through a process of home modifications by becoming knowledgeable about common health conditions and concerns and how they affect daily life at home. It is about knowing the right questions to ask with clients of all ages and abilities and potential solutions to offer.
Feel free to browse the free resources on this site, by health concerns or rooms of the house to get an idea of the information we have to share.
Continue to gain knowledge and increase the value of the services you offer to clients through in-depth resources available for purchase.
Looking for a place to start?
- 5 Disability Immersion Experiences for Contractors– guide to help contractors improve their business through an an experience-based learning guide to help teach a new perspective of how common disabilities and health concerns can cause functional limitations at home.
- Best Questions to Ask Clients– Specific and practical questions to ask clients to gain useful information to assess if home modifications will benefit the client and improve your services.
- Why bother (with home modifications)?
- Home Modification Market: Who Benefits from Home Modifications?
- 10 Easy Home Improvements to do in 1 Day
- Best Questions to Ask Clients
- Respecting Client’s Competence: Working WITH, Not FOR Clients
Light the Way- A Look at Pathway Lighting Options
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A Bit About Paint
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What Could You Improve #7
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What Could You Improve #6
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Better Doorbells for Everyone- Time to Upgrade Your Doorbell
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Making Homes Easier to Use
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What Could You Improve #5
Often times beautiful design goes wrong when people forget about function. The functional use of spaces is the bottom line. No matter how beautiful a space is, if people can’t use it functionally, it is useless. I learned about this first hand when I moved into a...
Creating a Visitable Home
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Visitable Home for the Holidays: Mobility Impairments
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Visitable Home for the Holidays: Hearing Loss
Creating a Visitable Home for the Holidays: Hearing Loss Visitability is traditionally a concept that means creating a home that can be visited by people with mobility impairments. This series of posts looks to expand this idea to include making homes visitable by...