Even if you only have a crawl space, you can provide for the future installation of a personal elevator. By strategically placing a closet, approximately forty-eight inches wide by fifty-three inches deep, as an interior finished measurement, above a closet of the same dimensions on the ground floor and including a removable sub-floor you can do just that.

This little 10 square feet will allow you the flexibility later in life to install an electric lift/elevator in your home.

By providing yourself with this addition closet and/or storage space, on each floor, in your early years, you have opened a window of opportunity to one heck of a nice option for your golden years.

Your cost for labour and materials for this exciting option would not exceed $200.00 over a standard building design, to do the reinforcing and sub-floor work.

The idea is simple, but one of the hardest things to find space for in a home.

Like many of the User Friendly modifications we employed in our demonstration home; Just a little bit of compromise… A bit of foresight… A bit of planning… and presto chango a more functional home for use by all generations and through all life’s changes. Just keep in mind as you work through your design, that it's a lot simpler to do it now rather than being forced to move out of your home and leave your garden, your neighbourhood haunts
and your friends, because you can no longer climb those stairs.