Come Home to You
Empowerment & ease at home through creative, custom residential design
Most of us know this feeling, we’ve just gotten home, ready to rest after a long day, but the mug you drink your tea from is dirty, the couch has yesterday’s laundry piled high, or the dog toys scattered on the floor make stepping through the threshold a risky move.
Now imagine it’s not the clutter, or yesterdays procrastination keeping home from being a place you ease into, but rather it’s the fact that getting home involves lugging your walker up the steps, squinting through the dark to find the safest light switch, or navigating the obstacle course of sharp corners, tight spaces, and “equipment” that was supposed to make your life easier, not harder.
Living with any disability doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you, but that there’s something about the norms or standards our world operates on that makes your life far more difficult than it needs to be. Nowhere is that more apparent than in your own home - a place meant to be for you, meant to bring you ease, meant to empower.
Millions of people around the world manage a myriad of ways that their bodies or thought processes diverge from that of the norm, and they spend endless energy modifying themselves to fit to world.
What if, at the very least, we could modify your world - your home - to fit you?
What if motion activated lights lit your path when you opened the front door? What if there was access to a bathroom from all of your most highly used spaces so you never had to worry about out racing to the pot? Or maybe there was seating in the bathroom for management of catheters, diapers, ostomy bags, and more without need to prop on a cold toilet lid? Maybe flexible floor plans let you adjust navigation around your home to that day’s needs or flare up? What if sound, light, and temperature modulating textiles meant the very walls of your home never left you overstimulated?
At May Living Designs we believe that, and more, are possible in residential design. May Living is an interior design service that focuses on home modifications and accessible, inclusive design for those who have a way of being in our world that doesn’t jive with builder-grade floor plans, standard amenities, or mass-produced fixtures. We think your unique needs are an asset, and a great opportunity to think outside the box and have beautiful, intentional spaces that make you feel right at home, empowered by design.