Our Bathroom Winners:
Universal
Design to Meet Needs Now
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Photos: (top) Homeowner winners
Bill Stothers and Cyndi Jones in their South Park home and (bottom) ASID's
Adapt-a-Home team on board to help with other rooms in the home: Joanne
Levreault, Sasha West, Gerald Bouvia III, and Bridget Crane.
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Bill Stothers
and Cyndi Jones are advocates of universal design, and thanks to a contest
sponsored by ReVisions Resources, AARP and the American Society of Interior
Designers, they will see the concept become a reality in the bathroom of their
nearly century old Craftsman-style home in San Diego’s South Park neighborhood.
Stothers and
Jones are winners of the bath component in the Designed for Life – Kitchen and
Bath Contest. The award comes with a bathroom remodel worth up to $31,000 and
includes plans, merchandise and installation provided by Best Bath Systems and
Aging in Place Remodeling.
The first competition of its kind to focus on a single county,
Designed for Life is sponsored by ReVisions Resources in partnership with AARP
San Diego and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), San Diego, to
challenge top professional designers to create design solutions for homeowners
in older neighborhoods who want to introduce universal design solutions into
their home. The concepts of
universal design allows owners to build or remodel their homes using thoughtful
space planning, and attractive well-designed fixtures that provide a living
environment that can be lived in for the rest of their lives.
“We both are polio
survivors, disability activists and universal design advocates,” Stothers wrote
in his contest entry. “I use a power wheelchair; my wife had used crutches but
now uses a scooter. As time has passed and our functional abilities have
declined, using the bathtub has become impossible; we are forced to sponge
bathe.
“Our goal,” he wrote,
“is to maintain the character of the home and show that universal design can be
successfully incorporated into old, and historic, homes.”
ASID designer Denise
Homme took on the challenge with style and attention to detail that impressed
judges. An expert in universal design, she crafted a functional, yet beautiful
solution, that ultimately was declared to be the winning design for the bathroom
component of the contest. read
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Rev. 10-16-11