Home Renovation
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Wheelchair-Friendly Flooring – These Materials Are Best For Your Home

Betty M. Bane

Are you renovating a home for someone with a disability? Are you making the home accessible for someone in a wheelchair? Hard, smooth surfaces are generally easier for people with mobility issues.

If you’re looking for wheelchair-friendly flooring, you have many options available to you. While material is important, it isn’t the only thing. Read on to discover the right flooring choice to suit your needs.

What the ADA says about flooring

ADA requirements for public and commercial spaces aren’t the same as what you can do with residential spaces. But using their requirements as a guideline can help you make better choices.

From their guidance, it states:

Floor and ground surfaces shall be stable, firm, and slip-resistant.

If you’re installing a floor that will be used regularly by someone in a wheelchair, it’s a good idea to create flooring that’s:

Slip-resistant – flooring should provide adequate traction for the

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Home Design
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Marshall Fire survivors set to rebuild clash with HOA over style

Betty M. Bane

Seth and Nancy Goldman want to rebuild their dream home, but their plans are delayed.

LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Spring flowers offer the only familiar feeling on a dirt lot that no longer resembles home for Seth and Nancy Goldman.

“Some lilacs are coming up,” Seth Goldman said, gesturing to what used to be the backyard of their home of 23 years in Louisville.

“Our home was in that vicinity,” Nancy Goldman pointed. “And there was a long driveway that came out this way.”

“We’re at close to the front door, sort of in the scheme of things,” Seth added.

The Goldmans don’t visit the site of their home on St. Andrews Lane often. It’s too painful.

“It’s hard, yeah,” Nancy said. “It makes me sad and a little bit of a trauma response because when we fled the house, the fire was right across the street.”

Nancy, Seth and two

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Home Design
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Centered By Design Has a Fresh New Look for 2022

Betty M. Bane

Spring is a season of newness and the perfect time to reveal a fresh look and space for Centered by Design. For months, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes on a rebranding of our design firm, which has grown tremendously over the past few years. Today we’re thrilled to share a sneak peek of the changes with you as we roll out updates our website and communications in the coming weeks.

A New Look for Centered by Design

Updated logo suite for Centered by Design. Designed by White + Salt out of LA.

Going through a rebrand for Centered by Design was about being able to elevate the look of our branding to match the quality of work we’ve been doing as we’ve continued to grow the firm, and to help us celebrate how far we’ve come.

Anyone who’s ever created or reimagined a brand knows how much

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