Home for Life™ features can be incorporated into many kinds of floor plans. This is just one example. It shows a floor plan for a nineteen hundred square foot, three bedroom bungalow. The numbered buttons correspond to the nine features of a Home for Life™. The three priority features are shown in yellow. Click on the buttons for more details on each feature.
A zero-step entrance OR space for a ramp or vertical platform lift to be installed inside an attached garage (having both is better)
View detailsA kitchen with a 60” diameter turning circle in the work area
View detailsAt least one three-piece bathroom somewhere in the home that contains a 60” diameter turning circle by the toilet, a shower space with no threshold, and walls reinforced with plywood. If it is on the second floor of a two-story house, then there must be the option to make it accessible according to the details in #4 (steps and stairs).
View detailsAt least one bedroom on the main or upper floor that has a 60” diameter turning circle on one side of the bed
View detailsA laundry area with a 60” diameter turning circle on the main or upper floor OR an area that has been roughed in so that the laundry area can be moved if required
View detailsNo steps or stairs on the main or upper floors of the home. If there are stairs they must be 40” wide and straight-run. Another option is 5 ft x 5 ft stacking closets that can be converted to an elevator shaft in the future.
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