There are so many residential design innovations and features that enhance wellness. These include steam showers, bidet-style toilets, combi-steam ovens, induction cooktops, smarter home technology and low maintenance surfaces like engineered stone and porcelain slab.
Then there are design details, styles and trends that can put your home’s wellness potential at risk. Here are six, along with tweaks that can preserve it or reduce the hazard potential.
Open Staircases
The lack of handrails on either side of these open stairs presents a hazard for those with balance … [+]
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I find this trend puzzling, as it seems like handrails should be part of building codes everywhere, but they show up often enough in modern home photos that this is apparently not the case. They would almost certainly not be recommended by most designers serving older clients, as fall-related injuries present the greatest hospitalization and fatality risks for seniors.