Accessible Home Design

Can Save the United States
Billions of Dollars

THE RIGHT SPACE

An easy-to-understand guide to wheelchair accessible home design.
Now with over 300 detailed drawings.

Published by
Debold-Marquez Books

Saving Billions

Whether you are a home builder or a home owner, accessible homes are good business, good planning and good for the long term health of the United States.

Why?

Homebuilders today have time to redesign their floor plans.
Those new floor plans can easily include attractive accessible features.
For anyone renovating or buying a home, those accessible features are an insurance policy.
And those built-in features save this country billions of dollars in emergency renovation costs due to age, accident or disability.
Those features allow you or your loves ones to live at home.

Given a disability or accident, the lack of just one item in our Nation’s housing stock, an accessible bathroom, can be the difference between living at home and living in a health care facility.

For home builders, now is the time to draw new plans. For anyone renovating or buying a home, now is the time to ask for accessible features.

A first step is familiarizing yourself with an accessible home's various fixtures and their location details. They are in The Right Space. Click Contents to see a detailed list.

Three Important Design Features

Create a Visitable Home by adding these three assets to your home design.

Zero Step Entrance – easy entry for a baby stroller or a wheelchair.
*Wide Enough Doors – the right space in front of each door allows wheelchair access into any room and makes moving furniture easier.
An Accessible Bathroom – you are able to use your home in an emergency. An accessible bathroom also makes for a friendly home when a disabled person visits.

*An often overlooked detail is, inside or outside a home, the minimum landing space in front of a doorway depends on the approach direction.

An Accessible Bathroom

Like most of the drawings in The Right Space, the bathroom below is an easy-to-understand isometric drawing. Note the different floor spaces that allow you to use each fixture.

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Contents of THE RIGHT SPACE

The Right Space has over 300 detailed drawings. They accompany and visually explain everything that's in the Contents below.

All the width, depth, and height details in the book come from the ADA Guidelines issued by the United States Access Board.