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ACCESSIBLE HOME DESIGN

The Right Space is a wheelchair accessibility guide that will help you create a valuable asset for yourself and for others, an accessible single-family home.

Renovating a home for a disabled person?

Asking a realtor to identify an adaptable home?

Designing new construction for future needs?

The Right Space has hundreds of three-dimensional drawings that illustrate what is essential for wheelchair accessibility: the ability to enter your own home independently and use any fixture in any room.

Please visit our gallery of sample drawings. Also view the book's contents below.

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Recent Pictures

An attractive Alternate Shower without grab bars

Don't forget grab bar backing at the tub

And at the toilet

An attractive toilet space ready for grab bars when needed

About the author

A. M. Ayala (59) is a contractor with over 30 years experience in the building trades. When his mother, at age 89, fractured her tibia and came to live with him and his wife, he began looking for an accessible home design guide for building and remodeling contractors. He found an enormous amount of information but very few pictures.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) directed him to the United States Access Board’s July 2004 guidelines that serve as the baseline for standards used to enforce the ADA.

Using the Access Board’s relevant residential guidelines and a cad program, Mr. Ayala drew more than 300 illustrations. Those easy-to-understand drawings make The Right Space a unique resource for both the layman and the building professional.

The book’s format follows the logical path from outside to inside, from the sidewalk, through the front door, and into hallways, bathrooms and kitchens.

Throughout, this guide’s goal is to show what accessible spaces look like. With The Right Space the layman and the building professional can make informed design decisions about what may be a family’s most important asset, their home.

Contents of The Right Space

INTRODUCTION – page 7

GLOSSARY AND NOTES – page 8: Brief Description: Readers become familiar with basic definitions such as accessible, approach direction, clear floor space, cross slope, finished floor and more.

PRIMARY FLOOR SPACES – page 11: Brief Description: Width, depth, and slope of various floor spaces.

TURNING – page 29: Brief Description: Minimum widths, depths, and diameters of floor spaces that allow you to travel from room to room and from fixture to fixture.

DOORS AND PASSAGEWAYS – page 41: Brief Description: Minimum width between open door and doorstop when a hinged door is open 90 degrees. Double doors, pocket doors, passageways and what makes a hallway accessible.

ENTRANCE LANDINGS – page 49: Brief Description: Each accessible entry doorway has a landing on each side of it. Each entry landing has a specific width and depth based on approach direction and hardware location. Each entry landing allows you open a hinged door, let it swing by, and let you pass through.

LANDINGS AND RAMPS – page 59: Brief Description: Where landing and ramps are located. There is a landing on each side of every ramp! Ramp widths, depths, and slope guidelines.

REACH, APPROACH, AND EGRESS - page 73: Brief Description: High and low reach each have an approach direction. High and low reach also have minimum and maximum heights at walls, beside a fixture, over a fixture, more.

INTERIOR LANDINGS - page 87: Brief Description: There is a landing on each side of an interior doorway and passageway. The landing allows a person in a wheelchair to make a 90 degree turn and pass through. How wide and how deep is each doorway landing? There are 7 possibilities. Each depends on the approach direction and door handle location.

RESIDENTIAL BATHROOMS - page 105: Brief Description: An overview of accessible bathroom design. A variety complete bathrooms are displayed – each with a different type of bathing fixture.

WATER CLOSET / TOILET - page 117: Brief Description: A toilet’s clear floor space, turning space, grab bars, and toilet paper dispenser location. The relationship between fixtures and floor spaces near a toilet.

LAVATORY / SINK - page 129: Brief Description: A lavatory’s clear floor space and turning space. The relationship between the lavatory and a water closet. The relationship between the lavatory and a bathtub. The relationship between the lavatory and a roll-in shower… a transfer shower… an alternate shower. The landings and turning spaces near a lavatory.

BATHROOM CABINET, COUNTERTOP AND SINK - page 143: Brief Description: The relationship between cabinet-countertop-sink and a water closet. The relationship between cabinet-countertop-sink and a bathtub. The relationship between cabinet-countertop-sink and a roll-in shower…a transfer shower…an alternate shower. The turning space near a cabinet and countertop.

BATHTUB - page 159: Brief Description: Clear floor space and turning space at at bathtub. Grab bars, grab bar backing, shower spray unit, and controls location. Bathtub seat location. Typical carpentry and more.

ROLL-IN SHOWER - page 175: Brief Description: A roll-in shower’s clear floor space and turning space. Grab bars, grab bar backing, shower spray unit, and controls location. Notes on a folding shower seat. Typical carpentry and sub-floor.

TRANSFER SHOWER and ALTERNATE SHOWER - page 189: Brief Description: A transfer shower’s clear floor space and turning space. Grab bars, grab bar backing, shower spray unit, and controls location. Notes on a folding shower seat. Typical carpentry and sub-floor.

KITCHEN - page 211: Brief Description: An overview of accessible kitchen design. Detailed illustrations an efficient kitchen and the relationship between clear floor space and turning space at a refrigerator. Turning space at a cooktop…a dishwasher…a sink…a work surface…a range, and a built-in oven.

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