Adapted house

Wheelchair accessible single-story house with garden
Adapted house in a garden
Adapted house in a garden

This one-story house is at ground level; there are no differences in levels, only minimal thresholds.

Users comments
The user and his wife built the house themselves. They started with a catalog design. The user’s sister-in-law is an architect and helped to modify the plan to make it accessible.

Adapted house in a garden
Adapted house in a garden

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Author: Lars

Lars bor ihop med sin hustru i en villa på landet. Han arbetar deltid. Sedan 1967 har han en hög paraplegi. Han är inte i behov av assistans.
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