Our Process
Our consultation services are always 'Solutions First' - first and foremost; our goal is to provide designs that serve your needs now and provide the flexibility and adaptability to adjust to your life. All while designing a solution that matches your style. And your budget!
Where possible, we normally start with a 'Walk & Talk', where we look through the space, discuss your needs and ideas, and we give an overview of Universal Design and how it can be applied to your project to best suit your needs.
When an on-site consultation is not possible, we provide other methods:
Virtual Consult
If you have a mobile device, we have a means! Using Facetime, Skype, or GoToMeeting (among others), we've been able to 'visit' a space and have extensive conversations with owners, designers, and contractors on how to best update their space for accessibility. This often provides the most cost effective means of leveraging our expertise no matter where the space is located!
Additionally, we can provide design and layout feedback for existing projects - using images and measurements provided by sub-contractors we can help update or modify existing plans, or provide detailed schematics of our own.
Phone Consult
For those just starting to plan their project, we are happy to discuss your ideas an how to best design for long-term accessibility. With something as simple, yet thorough, as a phone conversation we can conduct an extensive needs analysis, impact analysis, and even provide detailed assessments of your abilities and how to best design for those needs.
With a licensed Occupational Therapist on staff, we have a deep understanding of how changing physical abilities can impact your life, and how the design of a space can assist, and enhance, your enjoyment and quality of life.
Design Consult
We are both Occupational Therapists AND contractors. We have extensive experience in the entire process of accessibility renovations and construction. Even if we aren't the builders, we are happy to look at existing plans and provide detailed analysis of their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to accessibility. We can provide simple recommendations, or can draft new, updated plans and specifications using best practices for accessibility.