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ACCESSIBLE HOME DESIGN BOOK

THE RIGHT SPACE has over 300 detailed drawings. It is your resource for designing and remodeling an accessible home.

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The Right Space has more than 300 isometric drawings that illustrate accessible home design.

Doorways, ramps, landings, complete bathrooms, kitchen design and much more are illustrated. See contents below.

The illustrations help you become an aware consumer, one able to ask building and real estate professionals the right questions so you determine which floor spaces and fixture best fit your needs.

How does The Right Space do this? It does not describe a detail once and describe it as a number afterward. It has the relevant details with each drawing.

Where do the details come from? The details in The Right Space come from the United States Access Board.

The Right Space has done the cross referencing and research for you and incorporates the Access Board’s relevant guidelines into its 300+ isometric drawings.

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Everyone wants to spend the last 10 years of their life at home. There are several good reasons. Comfort and familiar surroundings are two big ones. Cost is a huge factor. Every month away from home can cost 3,000 to 6,000 dollars.

Incredibly, very few of the long lived escape the 3,000 to 6,000 dollar toll for one simple reason. They cannot live independently in their own home. There are three basic reasons they cannot.

A home does not have a zero-step entrance. With a zero-step entrance a person in a wheelchair can get in and get out of their home unassisted.
A home does not have doorways wide enough for a wheelchair to turn into and out of the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. If you cannot get into a room you cannot use it.
A home does not have a wheelchair accessible bathroom. In other words, you cannot transfer onto the toilet, take a shower, or comfortably wash your hands. To live independently, an accessible bathroom is a must.

When you build a new home, adding the three items above will cost only a few hundred dollars. Pencil, paper and a plan are your best friends prior to construction.

The three items above will add three to four thousand dollars when you remodel. The costliest item will be moving plumbing drains. More details are in the book. Widening doorways and creating a zero-step entrance are the other two items that add cost to a remodel.

Take a look at the contents below to see what's inside The Right Space.

Recent Pictures

Don't forget grab bar backing at the tub

And at the toilet

Ready for grab bars when needed

Contents of "The Right Space"

The Right Space
Debold-Marquez Books, LLC
ISBN 0-9764432-4-4
602 309 5169 – 480 821 2929 fax
contactus@trspace.com
Printed in the United States of America

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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