This updated Modern design blends style, accessibility, and energy efficiency with the demands of family living. A sleek hipped roof and high windows add Modern style to the exterior, while high ceilings and lots of natural light brighten the interior. A metal roof adds modern flair.
Accessibility features include polished concrete floors, open one-level living spaces, raised electrical outlets, and lowered switches. Sinks with side-mount faucets, a raised dishwasher, and an accessible ironing board are among many features for optimal independent living. The guest suite’s walk-in shower is barrier-free. The home is also equipped with an energy-efficient heat-pump water heater, spray-foam insulation, solar panels, and a rainwater collection system.
Facade of the Prairie House: designers Inc. HOBB's
One-floor house green and accessible with stone cladding
, the most important green and energy-saving features are proper orientation to the sun and porches and large roof overhangs shading windows. Those same features give the home its clean, modern Neo-prairie style. Even without reading all this, you can “feel” that it’s right for this climate by looking at it. It settles down on the land nicely with horizontal lines and rectilinear, but not too harsh, features.
Swimming pool with ramp for wheelchair
To relax in the summer in the backyard made a pool with a ramp for wheelchair users, under the roof is installed a tank for collecting rainwater.
The owner and builder of this home is an accessibility design expert of necessity because her son’s medical condition requires it, but it is also her passion. The home has barrier-free showers, side-mounted faucets, lowered eating bar, wider doorways, and halls lowered light switches, raised outlets, a playroom that doubles as a physical therapy space, sliding doors that require less than 5 lbs. of pressure to open and that run in tracks that are recessed into the slab to allow easy passage of a wheelchair, a pool with both a lift and a wheelchair ramp into the water, ramp access to every major entrance, raised dishwashers, wheelchair use fold-out ironing board and lots of other accommodations for accessibility. All this gave their son a level of independence he has never enjoyed before in his life, making it a game-changer for the whole family.
Cover terrace in house corner
On the covered terrace in the corner of the house there is forged furniture and an outdoor kitchen.
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Living room with a fireplace
In the living room is installed a dark gray corner sofa, so it was more comfortable to communicate, sitting in front of the fireplace.
Kitchen with built-in appliances
In the kitchen there are cupboards with white facades, in which a gas hob, an oven and a fridge made of stainless steel are built in.
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When everything is at hand
Next to the oven is a working surface with access to the necessary utensils.
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The whole house is seen as in the palm of your hand
The living room, kitchen, dining room and study are not separated by walls, but only by zoning through design.
Dining room in pastel colours
Only the dining table of mahogany stands out from the white-beige dining room.
Family living room
In the family room, guests are not welcome, children's toys can be scattered here or a fitness machine can be installed.
Study with clerestory windows
Clerestory windows give more light and two-story room provides more air in the home office or study for children.
Master bedroom with a forged bed
The master bedroom has a wrought-iron bed, which is perfectly combined with modern design.
Cosy bathroom
In the master bathroom there is a dressing table with a padded stool beside the window.
Oval bathtub
In a beautiful oval bath it's easy to relax.
Children's room with bunk beds
Bunk beds in children's room decorated in country style
A room for a little daughter
The crown with curtains above the bed leaves no doubt that this little room was inhabited by a little princess.
Room for boys
Bright bedspreads in the technique of patchwork, blue decorative pillows and a blue-colored bedside table create bright accents in the children's bedroom
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