Interior Design

Laundry can wear someone out before the wash cycle starts. Reaching into a deep washer or turning beside an open dryer door may force awkward bending. An accessible laundry room brings the route, controls, and work surface within comfortable reach. Room location changes the work before a homeowner chooses appliances. Moving laundry to the bedroom The post Accessible Laundry Room Design for Aging in Place first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

A floor that feels steady in a showroom may catch a walker at home. Families planning for an older parent also have to check the material below the finish and every doorway along the route. When someone uses a walker or wheelchair, slip-resistant flooring needs grip under wet feet and a firm path through each The post Slip-Resistant Flooring for Aging in Place, Room by Room first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

Electrical codes exist to safeguard us and our families from the potential dangers electrical hazards can create. Most kitchen electrical code requirements, specifically, can trace their roots back to the National Electrical Code (NEC), but that’s a model code. Local jurisdictions come up with their own codes using the NEC as a baseline, sometimes including The post Kitchen Electrical Code Requirements: What Every Remodel Needs to Get Right first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

A bathroom remodel is your best opportunity to fix the ventilation if it’s not up to snuff. Once the walls close again, you’re stuck with that undersized fan or awkward duct layout. Unless you want to cut back into the work that was just finished. That’s why it’s so important to take the chance you’re The post Why Every Bathroom Remodel Needs Ventilation and Moisture Control first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

Framing it as refacing versus replacement is actually the wrong question. Determining what your cabinets need has less to do with pitting ideas against one another and more to do with the cabinets’ conditions themselves. If the cabinet boxes are sound and work within the established layout, kitchen cabinet refacing refreshes the look without rocking The post How to Tell Whether Your Kitchen Needs Cabinet Refacing vs. Replacement first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

The house on Kings Highway was built in 1948. Back then, a bathroom down the hall and three steps to the front door were just how homes got built. Nobody thought about a wheelchair getting through that door. Your father did not think about it either, until the stroke last spring. Home modifications for wheelchair The post Haddon Township’s Older Homes Weren’t Built for Accessibility: What Families Do Instead of a Full Renovation first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

A chimney liner is the inner channel running through the flue that contains combustion heat, directs gases out of the home, and protects the surrounding masonry and framing from the temperatures a fireplace generates. Without one, or with one that’s not in working condition, your house can, quite literally, go up in flames. Heat can The post What A Chimney Liner Does and When It Needs Replacing first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

Most in-law suite plans start with a floor plan and end with regrets after the parent has moved in. In Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, small choices can become expensive problems. The bedroom door feels wide until a walker has to pass through it. The bathroom works for a healthy adult, then fails once a shower chair The post In-Law Suite Ideas for an Aging Parent Moving In first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

There’s much more than meets the eye in a painting quote. A good one goes far beyond simple price per square foot, and going into the process unprepared can be like walking into a trap. Interior house painting costs are driven by surface area, ceiling height, surface condition, paint quality, and number of coats. Any The post What Affects Interior Painting Cost and How to Get an Accurate Quote first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

The fine for working without an EPA Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) rule-compliant certification can reach $49,772 per day per violation. That’s enough to ruin anyone, especially over multiple days and violations. But adhering to the RRP rule provides safety in addition to financial stability. What does that look like in practice, though? It’s much The post What is RRP Certification and Who Needs It? first appeared on Transforming Interiors.