HOW TO MAKE AN ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM LOOK BEAUTIFUL
Upmarket hotels aim to enhance the traveller's experience. While many successfully convey a pampered atmosphere in the living decor, they fail when it comes to the accessibility bathrooms, offering instead visually unattractive and hospital-like spaces.
This is a potential major missed opportunity, when high quality fixtures with both aesthetic appeal and certified disability compliance are available, and would result in bathrooms indistinguishable from able-bodied ones.
In fact, there is a distinct advantage in fitting all a hotel's bathrooms with accessible (Universal Design) fixtures. It provides ultimate flexibility in booking maximum room numbers, offers clients the luxury appeal of support in the wet areas should they unexpectedly need it, and ensures overall positive customer response.
The additional cost providing fine accessible design is more than outweighed by the financial and practical advantages it provides hotel management and the greatly enhanced guest experience that can be offered in every bathroom.
Life is about experiences and the goal should be equally positive for able bodied people and disabled people.
For All Rooms
For Accessible Rooms
Eliminates the need to discount accessible rooms when able bodied guest complains of hospital like fit out
At Some stage in our life we have stayed in a hotel....
In New Zealand Hotels are required to meet the NZ Building Code 4121 which is quite prescriptive in the layout of the bathroom space. But hardware must only fit within a set of parameters.
However it does not say the bathroom should be fitted out with hospital fittings. Unfortunately 99% currently are. We have see 5* Hotels that have stunning & expensive wall treatments – i.e. marble sheet, Italian tiles etc – yet the accessible bathroom has a $50.00 support rail straight out of a hospital or public bathroom.
There are a few problems with this approach.
By using elegantly designed fixtures and a splash of colour Universal & Accessible Bathrooms are available for all.
WHAT DO THESE LEADING HOTELS HAVE IN COMMON?
THEY ALL SPECIFIED HEWI!
Please note the images are of European bathrooms. We supply NZS4121 compilant products
HOW TO MAKE AN ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM LOOK BEAUTIFUL
Upmarket hotels aim to enhance the traveller's experience. While many successfully convey a pampered atmosphere in the living decor, they fail when it comes to the accessibility bathrooms, offering instead visually unattractive and hospital-like spaces.
This is a potential major missed opportunity, when high quality fixtures with both aesthetic appeal and certified disability compliance are available, and would result in bathrooms indistinguishable from able-bodied ones.
In fact, there is a distinct advantage in fitting all a hotel's bathrooms with accessible (Universal Design) fixtures. It provides ultimate flexibility in booking maximum room numbers, offers clients the luxury appeal of support in the wet areas should they unexpectedly need it, and ensures overall positive customer response.
The additional cost providing fine accessible design is more than outweighed by the financial and practical advantages it provides hotel management and the greatly enhanced guest experience that can be offered in every bathroom.
Life is about experiences and the goal should be equally positive for able bodied people and disabled people.
For All Rooms
For Accessible Rooms
Eliminates the need to discount accessible rooms when able bodied guest complains of hospital like fit out
At Some stage in our life we have stayed in a hotel....
In New Zealand Hotels are required to meet the NZ Building Code 4121 which is quite prescriptive in the layout of the bathroom space. But hardware must only fit within a set of parameters.
However it does not say the bathroom should be fitted out with hospital fittings. Unfortunately 99% currently are. We have see 5* Hotels that have stunning & expensive wall treatments – i.e. marble sheet, Italian tiles etc – yet the accessible bathroom has a $50.00 support rail straight out of a hospital or public bathroom.
There are a few problems with this approach.
By using elegantly designed fixtures and a splash of colour Universal & Accessible Bathrooms are available for all.
WHAT DO THESE LEADING HOTELS HAVE IN COMMON?
THEY ALL SPECIFIED HEWI!
Please note the images are of European bathrooms. We supply NZS4121 compilant products
HOW TO MAKE AN ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM LOOK BEAUTIFUL
Upmarket hotels aim to enhance the traveller's experience. While many successfully convey a pampered atmosphere in the living decor, they fail when it comes to the accessibility bathrooms, offering instead visually unattractive and hospital-like spaces.
This is a potential major missed opportunity, when high quality fixtures with both aesthetic appeal and certified disability compliance are available, and would result in bathrooms indistinguishable from able-bodied ones.
In fact, there is a distinct advantage in fitting all a hotel's bathrooms with accessible (Universal Design) fixtures. It provides ultimate flexibility in booking maximum room numbers, offers clients the luxury appeal of support in the wet areas should they unexpectedly need it, and ensures overall positive customer response.
The additional cost providing fine accessible design is more than outweighed by the financial and practical advantages it provides hotel management and the greatly enhanced guest experience that can be offered in every bathroom.
Life is about experiences and the goal should be equally positive for able bodied people and disabled people.
For All Rooms
For Accessible Rooms
Eliminates the need to discount accessible rooms when able bodied guest complains of hospital like fit out
At Some stage in our life we have stayed in a hotel....
In New Zealand Hotels are required to meet the NZ Building Code 4121 which is quite prescriptive in the layout of the bathroom space. But hardware must only fit within a set of parameters.
However it does not say the bathroom should be fitted out with hospital fittings. Unfortunately 99% currently are. We have see 5* Hotels that have stunning & expensive wall treatments – i.e. marble sheet, Italian tiles etc – yet the accessible bathroom has a $50.00 support rail straight out of a hospital or public bathroom.
There are a few problems with this approach.
By using elegantly designed fixtures and a splash of colour Universal & Accessible Bathrooms are available for all.
WHAT DO THESE LEADING HOTELS HAVE IN COMMON?
THEY ALL SPECIFIED HEWI!
Please note the images are of European bathrooms. We supply NZS4121 compilant products