Refurbishing Your House As You Get Older

As you get older, you might need to refurbish your house to meet your new needs. This isn’t about style or taste; it’s about making everything more accessible.

As you get older, you can often get weaker or less open to extraneous activities. To this end, you can refurbish your home to meet your new needs. The sooner you do this, the better you’ll be prepared.

Furniture: chairs and sofas

Furniture is an important area, particularly chairs.  By finding furniture at the right height, you should be able to comfortably get in and out of them easily. The supports, likewise, should be sturdy enough to provide grip for arm supports.

Shelves and storage

Similarly, you should also readdress your cabinets and other storage options. Height, again, is an important issue. Cabinets and storage on the floors, for instance, will require you to reach down or otherwise lower yourself. With weak knees and old age, this can be a difficult and painful process. To this end, you should avoid using these options where possible.

On the other hand, you shouldn’t put any particularly high storage options up either. Just as low cabinets can cause issues, so can high shelves; forcing you to stretch or reach for items.

The stairs

Following on from this, you also need to address the stairs. The stairs involve a lot of the problems encountered already with furniture and storage; they can be difficult to navigate and put a lot of weight and pressure on the knees.

Yet the stairs can’t be changed; it’s much better to use a stairlift instead. By renting a stair lift from Stannah stair lift UK you can easily afford this. There is a one-off fee at the beginning and then you simply pay rental costs for as long as you need the stair lift. This one-off does include the installment of the stair lift. By entrusting this to skilled experts, no work or damage is done to your actual house. Likewise, the removal process is also covered.

The lift itself is also rather discrete. The collapsible chair means that the rail is the only noticeable part of the lift. This results in a stair lift that can blend into nearly any home. Furthermore, with the likes of curved rails, there are very few staircases that can’t have a stair lift fitted.