Top 10 bathroom concepts to make the life of the specially abled easier

Designing your home is by far one of the most enjoyable and the most creative activities you can indulge in at any point of time in life. It's your home, and you can design, decorate and dress it up the way you want, the way you dream, the way you have always desired. However, there is one very important thing to keep in mind while you unleash your creativity that there is one portion of your house that requires you to think from the point of view of someone who may not be as hale and hearty as you are. The design of the bathroom of your home, while it may be highly opulent needs to be disabled-friendly too. The following are 10 best ways to design your bathroom, which are easy to use by the handicapped.

Bathroom Design for Disabled

1. Contour Showers

Contour Showers

Contour Showers is a UK based Company, which is into manufacturing disabled friendly bathrooms, bathroom fittings and accessories for the past half a century. The Company provides custom-made facilities for people with varying degrees of disabilities, from grab rails to to shower trays, from easy access showers to wet rooms.

2. Global Bathroom

Global Bathroom

Designed by Fatih Can Sarıöz, the Global Bathroom is a dream come true for those who find it hard to bathe because of their disability. An all-in-one concept, Global Bathroom offers a wardrobe, a cloth dryer and storage space for bathroom accessories like soap, shampoo, conditioner and body wash. The main bathing unit, which is forms the central part of the unit comes with a rooftop shower and an attached chair.

3. The Auxilium

The Auxilium

The Auxilium style of disabled friendly bathroom design provides for strategically placed rails along side the toilet, shower, and sink. There is a bar underneath the sink to hang a towel or rest a cane. The shower floor flushed with the bathroom floor makes it redundant to step into the shower area, thus negating any chances of slipping in the bathroom.

4. Kohler Designer Bathroom

Kohler Designer Bathroom

The brain child of Cynthia Leibrock and Mary Beth Rampolla, the designs of Kohler bathrooms are simple, yet functionally beautiful. Beginning with the grab bars running all along the four walls of the bathroom, to bath tubs with hand-grips and roll-in shower, many thoughtful additions make the bathrooms easy to use for the specially abled. The bathroom also consists of two shower heads–one fixed and other adjustable, a single handle valve trim, comfort height toilets and a rightly placed sink, all of which not only look good but also do not compromise the utility aspect.

5. Safety Disabled Bathroom Design

Safety Disabled Bathroom Design

Safety disabled bathroom designs are classy bathroom designs envisioned especially for home, office and other public areas. They come fitted with special equipments like disabled bathroom shower, toilet, chair or bed and a handle that comes handy while walking around or at the time of using the toilet.

6. Universal Toilet

Universal Toilet

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, Korean designers Changduk Kim and Youngki Hong have come up with a brilliant concept in bathroom designing called the 'Universal Toilet' that upholds the pride and self-esteem of the disabled. The revolutionary reversible crapper allows disabled users to assume the standard position, while handicapped users can assume a position with the back facing the door.

7. Walk in Bathtub with Outward Opening

Walk in bathtub

This is a small but magnificent conceptualization. The door of this walk-in bathtub is wide enough for the disabled to get inside, either in standing or sitting position using the seat edge or transferring oneself from a wheelchair. Thereafter what he/she needs to do is, just put the legs into the bathtub with the help of the handle provided by the side and enjoy a pleasant shower on the wide non-slip floor.

8. Beetle's Wing Universal Toilet Seats

Beetle's Wing universal toilet

Toilet seats can become a nuisance if it's not age-friendly. The Beetle’s Wing has the answer to this nagging problem. This toilet seat adjusts itself to your convenience when you step on its pedal in front of the seat. The seat slowly spreads its 'wings' thus allowing you to perform your task easily and without messing up the surrounding.

9. The Safe Hands Bath

The Safe Hands Bath

Specially abled folks and senior citizens, now regain your confidence and independence. You now need not depend on anyone to help you perform your daily chores, especially bathing. The safe hands bath tub makes this otherwise herculean task, simply a cake-walk. It is of small wonder then, that the innovation received the Qualified Remodeler Magazine's 'Product of the Year Award'.

10. Handicapped Bathtubs

Handicapped Bathtubs

These handicapped bathtubs come with shower handle. Easy to install, operate and grip, this 17" shower handle is useful to elders, children as well as handicaps as well. Press tab levers to securely attach to the bathtub and even on to the wall. To remove, just flip the tabs. See, how easy-to-use, these bathtubs are!