With less than three weeks to go until Christmas, now is the time to really start thinking about doing some shopping, if you haven’t already. As we’ve said before, it’s not necessary when you’re shopping for a less able friend or family member to concentrate entirely on their disability. Nine times out of ten you…
Stylish Interiors with Disabled Features is an oxymoron, usually……but I found this site that you can use to get style ideas for your home – www.houzz.com. It’s mainly US design but that shouldn’t matter as you can point your builders to this site. There are useful tips and quite detailed ‘build’ information as well. They…
The American Lieutenant and Amanda the Commanda were delegated to visit Naidex – the “leading disability, homecare and rehabilitation event” – at the NEC Birmingham. There are a number of Naidex exhibitions in the year and the next is in Glasgow in September 2013. I’m always wary of events like these as I’ve grown allergic to…
Two weeks ago, we posted our review of the 2013 Ideal Home Show. In the article, we said that we had been a little underwhelmed at the amount of disability friendly products on display at the Home Show. The less able market is huge and it seemed a little short sighted of them to not have…
The Ideal Home Show, Earls Court As part of our ongoing quest to find helpful and stylish products for the less able, this week I took a trip to the Ideal Home Show, to see what they have to offer in terms of assisted living. Held in the exhibition centre at Earls Court, the Ideal…
The Ideal Home Exhibition at Earls Court has given BBS food for thought. Do they include any Disability Equipment or exhibit any Accessible Homes? Have any of our readers seen anything there that provides style and assisted living, let us know?? In the meantime our roving reporter Max will be attending and writing an article…
With Christmas just around the corner, we thought it would be a good idea to put together some ideas of stylish presents, that people can give to their less able friends and family. Here’s our list of the best stylish Christmas presents for the less able: Wheelchairs and Attachments FreeWheel is a wheelchair attachment that…
Whenever I re-decorate I always refer to Elle Decoration with regard to current trends and colours. But I am always disappointed when I try to find modern and well designed disability aids for the home, they don’t seem to figure in this publication, despite my emails to the editor. There are plenty of us out…
On a recent trip to a friends apartment in N. Cyprus we were concerned about the lack of grab bars in the toilet. I sourced a folding toilet frame online from Active Mobility. I was dubious as to whether it would work but we took it on the plane anyway. It went in the hold,…