The shower is one of the most important areas of the bathroom and has the power to really impact your daily life.
So when building or renovating your forever home, it’s important to plan for how you may need to access your shower in the future. Designing a more accessible shower not only assists any guests with accessibility requirements, but makes a huge difference in the future. When you’re building or renovating a bathroom for your forever home, your family’s needs will change and accessibility may become more of a requirement for future living.
Plan for accessibility early on and you’ll save yourself time and money further down the track. Here are three tips to ensure your forever shower has easy access:
Although the future can be unpredictable, there are some broad functional and safety decisions you can make to creative a versatile space for now and the future. Here are our top three considerations that you can take into account in the building process:
The shower is primarily a functional space, so make sure you think about how you, your family and your guests will actually use it. You’ll need to make sure that you’re communicating these requirements to your builders.