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"Adaptable Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards – Adaptable Design Bathrooms" by Before The Architect
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Complimentary copy of “Adaptable Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards – Adaptable Design Bathrooms”, January 18, 2003 available on request.
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Press Release. “Adaptable Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards – Adaptable Bathrooms” by Before The Architect.
Cumming, GA. January 18, 2003. Before The Architect has just released its standards for adaptable design bathroom layout and building, “Adaptable Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards – Adaptable Design Bathrooms.” The 23-page document focuses practical issues and answers about adaptable design bathroom planning and construction for homeowners, home designers, and dream home builders.
Adaptable design, broadly, goes by many names: accessible, universal, lifespan, lifetime, flex, etc. All share a basic - modifying habitable structure in recognition of occupants’ diminishing physical function, potential or actual. Before The Architect’s Adaptable Design Bathroom could be anyone’s bathroom regardless of age or almost any physical challenge.
“These adaptable design standards are about what to do, how to do it, and why,” says Before The Architect principal, Ralph Pressel. “These standards are print-ready; quote them to your architect, custom home designer, or custom house builder. Make them work for you. They’re the better and best from worldwide sources, including ourselves. This is about graying America, America’s extended families, homes that welcome everyone.”
The document addresses single-family, owner-occupied, detached dwellings; custom home design details. That’s most of the houses in the US. “Government guidelines apply to almost everyone except most homeowners,” wrote Pressel recently. “That’s not a bad thing. Those rules skip past or just plain pass over many aspects of adaptable design and construction.”
“Adaptable Design Bathrooms” covers general considerations, floors, walls, plumbing, wiring, and finishing. It is not touchy-feely. It is nitty-gritty, specific, practiced. It emphasizes safety, durability, and convenience in contractors’ language with explanations for anybody. As Pressel says, “We take it [adaptable design] out of conference rooms and committee reports and put it out on the job site.”
Before The Architect also publishes “Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards.” more generally oriented piece. Other offers and bonus offers apply for now.
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“Adaptable Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards - Adaptable Design Bathrooms” is available in PDF for $14.95 with 3 quarterly updates or in a single hard copy for $19.95 including shipping and handling in the US.
Summary: Before The Architect has just released its unique and innovative standards for adaptable design bathroom layout and building, entitled, “Adaptable Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards – Adaptable Design Bathrooms.” The 21-page document focuses issues and answers about adaptable design bathrooms from practical viewpoints of planning and building for homeowners, custom home designers, and dream home builders.
Background: Before The Architect provides custom home design and construction consulting, design, and Autocad 2006 drafting for residential, light commercial and industrial building projects. Its principals, Ralph and Jean Pressel, have worked hands-on in designing and building going on four decades both on their own and for others.
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