It’s been over a year, and I’m not fully recovered from my knee replacement. I see the wisdom in designing a house like this. Although replacing the toilets and adding grab bars in the bathrooms helps tremendously, there is a lot more that could be done in a house built from scratch. Some of these ideas would work just fine for the ordinary homeowner and would be lifechanging for the handicapped. It’s just a matter of perspective.
I’ve seen a lot of good ideas on “Holmes for Homes” — a Canadian program where a contractor comes in and redoes substandard work.
The town I live with has a lot of downsizers moving into it. Lots of retiring boomers with empty nests are getting out of their larger homes and buying smaller single story homes. The two story homes around me stay on the market a long time, single stories get snatched up in weeks if not before actually hitting market.