Tiny House Designed To Be Elderly / Disability / Mobility Friendly

as we age we can be faced with some pretty extreme challenges one of them being a loss of mobility which can end up really meaning a loss of your independence today though we've traveled to Victoria to meet one very inspiring lady who has built a beautiful tiny house that's given her a completely new lease on life [Music] hello moe hello dries lovely to meet you ensign what an absolutely beautiful home you have here my hand and it's all because of this wonderful woman standing next to you - how are you good thanks for asking itself very well thank you can you tell me a little bit about how this home came to be um well realizing a dream for a month you know my mum's getting what do you call it not older no I'm more mature aged more mature aged that's what we call it my mom was in a position where she was moving back to Victoria where we live with this beautiful cold weather and didn't want to go into something permanent and away from the family so we took a journey and said well let's board your tiny we just finished building a tiny for a girlfriend so I said well one for my month I didn't want to invest in a property so when my daughter suggested a tiny house I was very receptive and then when she out made a design and how it would read I jumped at it because it was ideal I didn't want my retirement money tied up in a house that I had to do upkeep and and I don't want it affairs I want to enjoy one and I am so thrilled that I jumped at their idea and things evolved from there and so I end up with the family which is ideal well definitely is a very chilly day today isn't it it is yeah it is price move inside when it's for me let's do that thank you this is so charming what wonderful views you have from here it is good the kangaroos in the morning isn't it mom it's also babies this morning they're not coming up say good night one of the things that I immediately notice about this house is everything is just so accessible isn't it you've got the ramp leading right up to this entranceway because this is a completely different structure from the tiny house isn't it yes it is yes and it's also built dismountable so it would take a day for us to dismantle and then put things back together again still perfectly mature age accessible yes thank you my mum just being of that age where she's not getting more agile she's getting less agile so everything's built in like the door frame is built into the frame of that tiny so there's no trip hazard even going external as you can see the flooring going up the veranda and then the certain grip on the tread so bombs me on the house just over six months and she hasn't had a fall once it's awesome that is brilliant and I don't even have to look at the feet when I'm walking in you can immediately see just how much of a well-designed and comfortable home this is but I suppose the best thing about this situation is that you get to be so close together and to a daughter it's not it's not me Bryce it's the granddaughter being traced to my family is very important the grandchildren and great-grandchildren they grow so quickly one minute they're babies and the next they're toddlers the next thing that going to school so to have those childhood years and have them know their grandmother I think it's a very important to me and I think it is important to them it is all important being nice to family mums living in a tiny house yes but with the extended space on a Friday evening you know the extended family come and it's just a comfortable place to be it's just a space that we all just come to so what are the dimensions of this home the tiny is 7.2 by 2.5 wide so it would be what you'd say the a typical size in Australia and then the veranda is the same length 7.2 but by 3.2 wide and then there's a gap between the veranda and the tiny to meet regulations but then we board that up so we've got screws we board that up and there's three flashings so there's flashings on the other side and on the roof and then that seals it and you find that you're spending more time inside the tiny house or more time here in this room more time in this room because of my craft room I like the friendly neat whereas I can spread out and here but I wouldn't dream have taken my craft work in there and messing up my beautiful beautiful but normal day-to-day living I leave it out and making awful ways but not in the fiddly so the friendly Bryce is what mum has christened her home so myself daughter the baby being fern and my older sister being Leander Orly so mum christened the home friendly oh that's lovely so before we check out inside the Fernley can you tell me about this patio area yes so what was important to Mum was having options so having an option that if we sold the farm or did something to the farm that her capital investment wasn't in something that was in bricks and mortar invested in the ground here so with the extended veranda here or the patio we build it in such a way that it is dismantle so we can take this apart we've done the insulation on the inside this winter to see how it went for the winter weather we need to plaster it or not but the insulation has been awesome this winter so it's been fine we've just put perspex on the ends to help enclose but still have that aspect of looking out and on the front there's three big areas here you can see we've got a cafe blinds and then flyscreens so if you've got the cafe blind and the flying screen in the evening it provides that insulation and then we've got the option of having the cafe blinds down looking out or in an evening or in a hot damn I'm gonna have the fly screens down have the air coming through but without the insects that we have here in Australia and what's extra clever about that is this one here on the end is actually motorised as well as it is that's right so having that more mature aspect in mind having things that are push-button or easy to use with the hands so for the blinds the cafe blinds and the fly screens are all manual lifts and clothes and then the one at the end as you have said we've got that on a motorized so mum can just push a button and it can go up and down well can we go inside the Fernley and take a look absolutely yeah come inside this is beautiful it is lovely isn't it price we just love it it's quite modern as well with the finishing on the walls yes designing for your mother is no different designing for any client sitting down and asking where have you lived before that you like what is it you liked about that what's the feeling you want and mum wanted something to pop like something that had a bit of shine or a shimmer to it but also the timber look and the open sort of space so we did a combination of the cedar windows and the big expensive sort of windows and a neat glass so it's a neat glass rather than double glazed and then we use the luca bond so a luca bond as a commercial product is on the external of a lot of um buildings but we've brought it inside here and so it's the luca bond wall covering and it's a standard framing like we've done a noted by 45 framing standard house insulation and we've got installation under the floor in the walls and the ceiling we've got a solid base trailer and we raised the floor above the wheel lunches so completely flat so what we built here we don't have to deal with that complexity of where's the wheel at and then can you tell me a little bit about the way that you've designed this home so we've got underfloor heating and it only one takes about thirty dollars a week to run and it's no different than doing a small bathroom or a small bedroom and it keeps that ambient temperature for mum and particularly you know when you're walking around if your feet are warm particularly when you're older if you feed a warm you can sort of deal with everything and it's got a non-slip floor which is actually built particularly for bathrooms but we've built it throughout the tiny home and everything's soft touch so whether it be the cabinetry the door was the age-specific bathroom where it's got the toilet specifically made for older people to get up and down from the toilet and then with the shower we've got a non-slip vinyl floor a shower seat and then specific railing and just putting an extra noggins and everything so you've got your hand railing so if mommy ever does need to grab onto the railing it's all very secure we wanted to have a bed that went up and down from under in a way during the day so again mum didn't have to deal with the Murphy bed in the wall or a loft where climbing up stairs and steps was not you know not an option for us or having something permanent out was not an option mum is with many people of her generation you know if you have people into your home space you want them to see your bed so what we've done here Bryce is the lift bed so it runs off a 12 volt battery and it has a channel that goes up through the wall and then just sits up on the ceiling during the day and then comes down at night and then all the cabinetry behind it if I could show you that yeah - show the cabinetry so with the cabinetry Bryce everything is all soft touch so everything and craft work and clothing and DVDs and then extra storage for pantry or the like and then this has got storage all underneath it as well as well as pullout drawers for everything here so mum has found that she's got more storage in this space than what she had basically in one of her you know taught her rooms in her own house this door here slides along and then it comes up to a table so mum can sit there with their computer or her dinner and have that or have it away for the space so it's not you know running into that in the middle of the evening very very clever now when it comes to the bed do you find that okay to get in and out of because it's still quite high isn't it when that comes down yeah still a little hop up there no problem but Finn is having a snick night for it to make it easier and when under that more mature I might need it and I can see you've actually got a skylight up there as well not my skylight the night of the Eclipse that was just absolutely fantastic how wonderful and then the kitchen area behind us here so we've purpose-built that again Bryce - mums requirement so the benches lowered so it's easy for mum to navigate and cook and everything yet and with most Hani's you'll have the gas hob top what we've chosen with mum is induction for safety so if mum takes the pot off that it automatically switches off so it's got that safety element to it and the ovens got a safety switch on it and it's also got a safety off timer on the oven as well one of the things mum loves and she's pointing out here right is the tap the water nozzle comes and mum can use it for washing the dishes the vegetables and it's quite a large sink so whether it be vegetables or cleaning or anything mum can sort of like move things around which is good for her and so what about the accessibility in here so accessibility Bryce what we've done here again with mums has made it so in the future mum needs to use a wheelchair it's all wheelchair accessible at the moment mum you'll will use a walker every now and again every odd day that she's not feeling a hundred percent and we've done it so that mum can get the Walker in through the kitchen and into the bathroom space and in all of her living area so it's all what we say aged disability friendly with the ease of access for things with your hands and then be able to get a walker in a wheelchair through I suppose more than anything one of the best things about this home is that you're able to be completely independent here on you yes said something quite different from the volume me and home I had a little saying which was beautiful home but of a three-level and I didn't need help to maintain it the home has given me more independence because I like to be completely independent and I don't need to be dependent on anyone I don't need anyone coming in to help me share or anything because it's all so beautifully laid out for me especially I don't need anyone to come in and clean for me because it's so easy to do myself and I haven't got a whole day doing housework which I hate because it only takes me half an air but the independence it gives me but the tiny nurse of it and yet every single thing that I had in a four bedroom home everything is so easy to use so easy to clean so easy to live and more than easy it's a joy so what would you say right now your absolute favorite thing about living here is everything absolutely everything my favourites their own fragrance price you're asking me a very hard question I love the underfloor heating I love the openness the safety the security I tell my daughter he was designed at forming and so beautifully that is my little bit of heaven best present she's ever given to me it's the scenery the Kangaroos and the rabbits they keep distracting me from my cry for it but very pleasurably the experiences I'm getting living here and being able to live here and such safety and security is just that little bit of heaven so what do I love best Oh Bryce it would be just everything and what about the cost of this setup so the tiny itself was $85,000 to build the extension area was about 15,000 and then the blinds there were the high quality in Bryans for that I was six seven thousand dollars for those so if you take the 85 to the 1516 and then the seven or eight that's the construction costs and then what we did we did some excavation for the site so all up out of pocket it's been about 140 hundred fifty thousand dollars out of pocket and that's what all the garden beds everything but what's really priceless is the quality of life that this has given you isn't it absolutely that is exactly it the days just aren't long enough and I want years and years of it thank you to be on the property here the spaciousness and the openness of having nobody around me is just terrific it is print quality beauty and with the family goes it's just a dream which without the wee tiny years I couldn't repay well you are such a beautiful soul and this is such a wonderful home and it's so great to see the way that the family has come together to make this a reality thank you so much for sharing your wonderful thank you rice thank you thank you thank you I love sharing my beautiful home mm-hmm I know people can be they have a look at it I did I really appreciate you doing so thank you very much this is a very cleverly designed home there has been so much attention put into each and every detail to make sure that this is a place where Mel can be completely cozy completely warm but most of all completely independent here in these walls Mel needs to rely on absolutely nobody and that is what makes this place truly home [Music] you

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Length: 17min 20sec (1040 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 04 2019