This is a good article from Luisa Rollenhagen at Houzz showing where “accessible design is finally having its moment: accessibility and aesthetic design are starting to come together”, We’ve been talking about this since we started and at last the message has come ‘home’. Some good ideas for wheelchair users, people with sight problems and just people who…
This article is from a guest writer, Dane O’Leary who writes for Modernize.com. Since disabilities can occur to anyone at any time, it’s important to be aware of how the decor and design of a home can be optimized for those who are disabled in some way. In fact, many cities are requiring all new…
Milan Design Week, 14-19 april 2015, is a major furniture trade fair. This year a pop-up from IKEA has appeared that showcases their collaboration with designers to create installations using its new Metod modular kitchen range. One aspect of the designs has been to include a kitchen where one or more family members have a…
You may have seen on our Facebook Page that we met Lord Livingston, Minister of State For Trade & Investment, at Sesame Lifts . They produce those lovely lifts that appear from disappearing stairs. The video below shows a lift for a residential Listed Building in Edinburgh but I digress, the meeting was a surprising…
Naidex National, the UK’s largest disability, homecare and rehabilitation event, is now just days away. Kicking off on the 29th of April and concluding on 1 May at the NEC, Birmingham, this year is the event’s fortieth anniversary and it looks set to be the biggest and (we hope) best yet. With over 300 different exhibitors showcasing…
At Blue Badge Style, we tend to spend a lot of our time focusing on the access at trendy restaurants, but we do realise that for most people a meal out is more of a treat rather than an everyday occurrence. Most of the time, most of us eat at home. For people with disabilities…
This is a promotional article from Stiltz Lifts. For decades, the stairlift has been the only product on the market for lifting people and wheelchairs up and down stairs. A rail would normally be mounted to the treads of the stairs or on the wall beside the stairs with a chair or lifting platform then…
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…