One of the most important areas of the home to achieve full accessibility is the garage. For many of us, our home’s garage is the primary or most convenient entry point into our living space. If your home’s attached garage isn’t fully accessible, it could quickly limit your ability to move freely between your vehicle and your home. With this in mind, we’re often asked, “What are the most common ways to make your garage more accessible?”
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Homes are more than just a place to lay our head at night. They’re gateways to the world around us. Whether you enjoy sipping coffee on your deck while soaking up the view, wandering down to the lake behind your house, or just popping out the front door for some shopping, having the freedom to come and go as you please truly makes a house a home.
Unfortunately, homes aren’t always built for those with mobility concerns, making enjoying the outdoors or moving around different levels challenging. Fortunately, outdoor lifts offer a simple solution! These helpful additions let you freely explore your home’s surroundings.
Here’s a look at the different types of outdoor lifts available and how they can transform your experience at home.
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Undoubtedly, having an elevator in your home is a value-added feature. A home elevator provides convenience and ease of movement, adding an attractive aesthetic appeal to the living space. Further, advancements in home elevator installation have made it more practical for homeowners to add an elevator to their residences.
But, like any home improvement project, it’s natural to wonder how a home elevator purchase will impact your home’s value.
Let’s look at whether or not installing an elevator will increase your home’s value, the range of benefits that come from a home elevator installation, and what to expect from the home elevator purchase and installation process.
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If you’re looking for ways to make navigating a multi-story home easier, stair lifts are a solution you will come across often — and for good reason. They are safe, reliable, and require no construction. But what is a stair lift? And what makes it helpful for moving between floors?
Stair lifts are accessibility equipment designed to smoothly and safely transport users up and down stairways. They consist of a chair attached to a straight or curved rail affixed directly to the stair treads. The user operates the lift by pressing a button that moves the chair along the rail at a controlled speed.
By making stairs accessible to those who experience difficulty walking up and down them, a stair lift frees the user to travel safely throughout your entire home. Installing a stair lift brings countless benefits. But you shouldn’t just take our word for it! Here’s what our real-life Clients have to say about how Arrow Lift’s products have transformed their lives.
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Stair lifts are a cost-effective, easy-to-operate, and construction-free way of gaining mobility and independence throughout your home. If you are researching stair lift costs for yourself or a family member, it can be frustrating not to find an exact price online. Additionally, many resources end up over-simplifying the shopping process for stair lifts, creating unrealistic expectations and delaying the significant improvement a stair lift can make to one’s life.
While typically you can find pretty accurate pricing for, say, a car or home online, determining stair lift costs requires answering more than a dozen questions about the unique circumstances of the home, staircase, and stair lift user. On top of that, your answers to these questions may still lack the insight of a professional evaluator, causing you extra headaches and unforeseen costs.
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