Inclusive Chic Roundup: September 18

A re-blog from my fantastic #inclusivechic co-host, Vicki of Wheel Chic Home – Our first roundup!

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“Last month, Vaila from The Inclusive Home and I started a new Hashtag across Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest called #inclusivechic

We set up the hashtag to start conversations around inclusive, accessible or disabled design that we love. This could be things we have in our own homes, or great architecture or design we’ve seen that helps someone in their wish for a dignified, independent life. We’ve suggested a theme each week for the posts and we’re thrilled with the response so far, and we hope it’ll continue to grow!

We don’t want to pigeon-hole this hashtag as for disabled people. There’s great inclusive design everywhere – that can be used by those with or without disabilities. We want to encourage people to look around them and find things that everyone can use and be aware of. So we want to raise awareness, have a little fun and also we’ll have some prizes coming up in future months so keep posting!

We’re also so pleased with the discussions we’ve had on the hashtag, from the best ceiling hosts to wheelchair front wheel adaptations, we’ve been sharing hints and tips so we’re all learning as we go.

We’ve had some great posts and ideas from the #inclusivechic crowd on Instagram and we wanted to share some of those in a monthly round up. We’re a little late on this first round up but we’ll catch up this month!

Here’s a selection of some of our favourites in the past few weeks, although we’ve loved all the input you’ve given us!

First up: this beautiful inclusive bathroom at the St Ermin’s Hotel in London, designed by MotionSpot. Anyone would be happy to use this room, disabled or not. It’s fully inclusive!

 

Next up is a lovely photo from Kezzabelle5 with a picture of Ashton enjoying bathtime in a fabulous and safe bath chair surrounded by colours and lights. What’s not to love about this?

Next up possibly the most brilliant stair lift I’ve seen up to a beautiful home in Cornwall over looking sea. Cornwall’s small cottages and fishing villages with steep hills and uneven steps isn’t the first thought for an accessible home but that didn’t stop On The Mother Hand from setting up home here and getting a marine grade lift installed. Brilliant – and I bet it’s also useful for sending up heavy shopping too!

This in progress bathroom from Wills_House is lovely, the oversized mirror and smart navy tiles with white grout work well with the grab bars and accessible sink. I can’t wait to see it finished!

We’ve also been discussing Architecture this month and this example of a wheelchair ramp wrapping round the steps at Weston Park Museum in Sheffield is brilliant. Sometimes a wheelchair user has to go round to a different entrance to everyone else, even having to wait for staff to let you in making you feel like an inconvenience, but this ramp let’s everyone be together up and down to the museum. I love it, and thanks to A Wheelie Great Adventure for sharing it with us.

We’ve had so many posts to choose from, so it was really tough to narrow it down, please go and check out #inclusivechic and join in, share your inclusive design with us.

That’s it for this month’s roundup – see you next month!”

Access Linky: June 2018

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Helloooo! Huge apologies to my regular readers and linker uppers…. I’m a whole week late!

I shall blame half term for throwing me out of sync, but it’s really more down to my own disorganisation!

Anyhoo…. welcome to my blog link-up for sharing posts with ideas and experiences (good and bad!) of physical or sensory accessibility of buildings, places, spaces, products and/or activities!

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Linky Round Up:

There were three main themes to the posts linked up last time:

TRAVEL

Life of an Ambitious Turtle shared her family’s (very positive!) experience of Getting Around Costa Almeria. Finding a wheelchair accessible coach was definitely a surprise!

And also a much less positive account of travelling on UK buses. Fi is a mum of two and a wheelchair user, so the buggy ‘v’ wheelchair debate on buses impacts her family from both angles!

(My own feeling – as usual! – is that better design could definitely help here! If there was more flexible space on regular buses, like there is on airport buses/buses at the NEC etc, more people with different access needs could be accommodated more easily!)

ACTIVITIES

Parties can be tricky for autistic kids, kids with sensory sensitivities and other disabilities, Rainbow’s Are Too Beautiful shares some brilliant ideas for planning an inclusive birthday party for her daughter that her autistic boys were also able to enjoy!

How do you participate in that big day in a Brownies’ calendar, making a promise, if you aren’t able to recite the promise? A Wheelie Great Adventure’s little girl did!

I talk a lot about toilet access in my blog, but needing access to toilets is not really about the toilets, it’s about the activities they enable you to participate in! Have a look at all the great stuff Ordinary Hopes and her son have been up to when there’s been a Mobiloo on location!

AWARENESS

And finally, Bryony – Perfectly Imperfect Mama, linked up her really informative post for Cleft Lip and Palate Awareness week, inspired by her two nephews with the condition.

 

Inclusive Home

The linky will be open for 3 weeks (and as I’m late posting, that will take us to Thursday 28th – almost to the beginning of next month’s linky!)!

  1. Link up to 2 posts each month (old or new)! It would be lovely if you could add my badge (cut and paste the code in the box under the badge image above and add it into your blog post while in ‘text’ mode of your blog editor) or add a text link back to my site so that people can find the linky and read the other blog entries;
  2. Please comment on this post to introduce yourself if you’re new to the linky, and comment on some of the other linked posts to help share ideas and experiences (use the hashtag #AccessLinky in your comment)!
  3. It would also be amazing if you could share your post (using the hashtag #AccessLinky) on social media to help spread awareness of the issues around accessibility!  I’ll also try to retweet as many posts as I can!
  4. I welcome input from anyone that is affected by accessible design – users, carers, friends and family as well as designers, developers, managers and legislators (so pretty much everyone then!). I welome blogs from professionals and suppliers as well as individual bloggers as long as they keep within the spirit of idea exchange and are not sales posts for products or services.

….and don’t forget to check in again next month (1st of the month) to read the round up, and link up again!


Access Linky: May 2018

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Hello! Isn’t it lovely to finally see Spring arrive!

Welcome to my blog link-up for sharing posts with ideas and experiences (good and bad!) of physical or sensory accessibility of buildings, places, spaces, products and/or activities!

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I’ve had a hectic few months and I feel like I’m neglecting my own poor blog, so I’m extra happy to be able to read through and share the fab posts linked up to #AccessLinky!

Linky Round Up:

There were two snow themed posts linked up last month! That may seem a bit out of season, but it’s not so long ago we saw the ‘beast from the east’ despite the lovely warm weather we’ve seen since!

The first by Rainbows Are Two Beautiful is a genius idea! Helping her autistic son to enjoy playing in the snow without triggering his sensory sensitivities by making ‘warm snowballs!’

The second by Life of an Ambitious Turtle, describes her daughter’s experience of Accessible Skiing with a Visual Impairment! It sounded brilliant, and look out for her second instalment, accessible skiing for a wheelchair user!

Ordinary Hopes shares her disillusionment with the response, and The Offer, from one of our well known Supermarkets about their attitude to installing changing places toilets (although this particular supermarket is not the only one to disappoint on this issue!).

And finally, two posts both relevant to my own obsession over the last few weeks!

I attended Naidex last week for the first time to give a talk on inclusive home design… I’m more of a keyboard campaigner and sketcher, so it’s something pretty much out of my comfort zone… but reading this post from Life of an Ambitious Turtle on the lack of accessible homes and Senseless Social Housing Policies affecting working age disabled people, it reinforces to me how important it is to keep talking about this!

While Wheelscapades wrote up this brilliant review of her visit to Naidex in 2017!  It’s a great (and unique!) opportunity to see and compare accessible and inclusive products, see lots of design innovation and to meet loads of like minded people! It’s certainly going into my diary for next year!

 

Inclusive Home

The linky will be open for 3 weeks!

  1. Link up to 2 posts each month (old or new)! It would be lovely if you could add my badge (cut and paste the code in the box under the badge image above and add it into your blog post while in ‘text’ mode of your blog editor) or add a text link back to my site so that people can find the linky and read the other blog entries;
  2. Please comment on this post to introduce yourself if you’re new to the linky, and comment on some of the other linked posts to help share ideas and experiences (use the hashtag #AccessLinky in your comment)!
  3. It would also be amazing if you could share your post (using the hashtag #AccessLinky) on social media to help spread awareness of the issues around accessibility!  I’ll also try to retweet as many posts as I can!
  4. I welcome input from anyone that is affected by accessible design – users, carers, friends and family as well as designers, developers, managers and legislators (so pretty much everyone then!). I welome blogs from professionals and suppliers as well as individual bloggers as long as they keep within the spirit of idea exchange and are not sales posts for products or services.

….and don’t forget to check in again next month (1st of the month) to read the round up, and link up again!