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More and more homeowners are opting for universal design when making certain home renovations. The reason is simple. While standard design best suits the “average person” of average age, height, and agility, universal design accommodates all persons; regardless of age, size, or physical mobility. Creating a lifespan environment that serves each family member throughout their lifetime. Taking universal design into consideration when planning a home renovation project can help to avoid costly alterations at a later date that might be required because of limited physical ability. This not only creates living space that work best for all persons who live in or visit your home. The real estate value of your home is increased, as well. I started Strokes five years ago after being constantly frustrated at the lack of reliable decorators in London (our home town at the time). Reliability is one of the keystones of our business. The best bit about redecorating (apart from seeing your room return to its former ‘smarter’ hey day) is deciding whether to go for something new. Take a look at our Campaign for colour page and learn all about this season’s must have colour schemes, we also offer handy hints and tips on decorating which we will update and change regularly.Universal interior design features include:
Note: most of the objects and materials required to make these type universal design modifications to your home can be purchased at local department or hardware stores. 1. Ex-soldier who shot family jailed data: 10.04.08 A former soldier who killed his aunt, uncle and cousins with a silenced pistol is given four life sentences. 2. Birmingham City bosses Karren Brady and David Sullivan arrested in football probe data: 10.04.08 Karren Brady, the Birmingham City managing director, and David Sullivan, the club’s co-owner, have been arrested as part of the investigation into alleged corruption in football. 3. Motorola divides into two separate companies data: 27.03.08 Motorola's chief executive said he hoped that by spinning off the unprofitable mobile phone unit, the company would have better luck attracting a new chief executive to revive it. 4. Heather Mills' contribution to Paul McCartney marriage: an acrylic fingernail data: 19.03.08 One of the few positive things to come out of Sir Paul McCartney’s four-year marriage to Heather Mills was her suggestion that he should wear an acrylic fingernail to protect one of the fingers he uses for strumming the guitar, the judgement issued at the end of their divorce battle said. 5. French will jail those encouraging anorexia data: 10.04.08 By Henry Samuel 6. Pssst - Want an unlocked phone? data: 27.03.08 Wireless carriers often offer customers cheap or free phones in exchange for multi-year contracts, but then the phones are technologically "locked" - the subscriber cannot cancel the contract and sign up for service with another company. 7. Disney celebrates its perfect partnership data: 10.04.08 Bob Iger, chief executive, calls Pixar as the 'new DNA' that has revitalized the studio's film output and revived its glory years as an animation powerhouse 8. Strikes ease in Greece as Parliament approves pension bill data: 27.03.08 Greek garbage collectors returned to work Friday, removing mounds of trash that had piled up during their two-week strike protesting pension changes. Rolling power cuts also ended after employees at the country's main power company returned to work. 9. The new Diana? In Britain, Carla Bruni steals the show data: 07.04.08 The new first lady of France emerged as the star of a state visit to Britain with her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy. 10. Top Stories: Heather Mills' claims on Sir Paul McCartney's fortune were "wholly unrealistic" data: 19.03.08 MACCA JUDGMENT DAY Heather cash claims branded 'unrealistic' by furious judge 11. Two charged over beach head death data: 07.04.08 Two men are charged in connection with the death of a Lithuanian woman whose head was found on a beach. 12. Grand prix chief holds ground amid calls to quit over sex scandal data: 10.04.08 Max Mosley, head of the International Automobile Federation, has admitted he was in the sadomasochistic session caught on tape, rejected implications that there were Nazi themes and defended what he did as 'completely legal.' 13. Music cache from Hitler's headquarters features Jewish and Russian musicians data: 27.03.08 Outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a recently discovered cache of records proves to be the remains of Adolf Hitler's private music collection. 14. Dow falls after downbeat reports data: 27.03.08 A pair of pessimistic reports on home sales and business spending reminded investors about the precarious state of the economy. 15. Trial opens in London for 8 accused of plotting suicide attacks on trans-Atlantic airliners data: 07.04.08 Prosecutors said Thursday that the suspects had planned to inflict heavy casualties "in the name of Islam" by igniting liquid explosives as planes flew from London to the United States and Canada. 16. US urged to end travel ban on Nelson Mandela data: 10.04.08 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked for a long-standing ruling which means former South African president Nelson Mandela and his party are blacklisted from entry to the US, to be repealed. 17. Tears and tantrums data: 19.03.08 Spencer Livermore, the long-time aide to Gordon Brown who is leaving Number 10 to go to Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon, has not been ousted by Stephen Carter, the... 18. Romania reconsiders its welcome of biotech corn data: 27.03.08 The country had been one of the most receptive on a continent skeptical of genetically modified crops, but is moving toward a reversal of its stance. 19. Poll fraud 'hits at democracy' data: 19.03.08 Safeguards to combat voting fraud are 'easily bypassed' because of weaknesses in the registration system, it was claimed. 20. Paris braced for torch protests data: 07.04.08 Hundreds of French police will be deployed to protect the Olympic torch from protesters angry at China's role in Tibet. 21. Man charged over Jamaica murder data: 07.04.08 A handyman is charged with the murder of a 61-year-old British woman on an extended holiday in Jamaica. 22. High rice prices no windfall for many Asian farmers data: 07.04.08 For many rice farmers in Asia, the commodity they produce ends up as food in their stomachs, not cash in their bank accounts. 23. Low sales force four village pubs to close a day data: 10.04.08 Village pubs are closing at a rate of four a day because of the lowest beer sales since the Great Depression and rising running costs, it was claimed yesterday. 24. Fiona: Natasha Kaplinsky's news is good news! data: 07.04.08 Doesn't the reaction to Natasha Kaplinsky's pregnancy just say everything about how hideously family-unfriendly this country is? 25. Carla Bruni wins over France after state visit data: 07.04.08 Carla Bruni has finally won the affection of the French public, with the vast majority agreeing yesterday that she is "elegant, modern and nice". 26. Cardiff set up FA Cup final with Portsmouth data: 07.04.08 Joe Ledley scores the only goal to end Barnsley's FA Cup run and send Cardiff through to a final against Portsmouth. 27. Afghanistan's youngest migrants adrift on the road to asylum data: 27.03.08 Hundreds of child refugees from Afghanistan are camped at a port in western Greece, hoping to sneak onto a ferry to Western Europe. But the boys, as young as 8, are being preyed on by traffickers. 28. Internet appeal on fatal shooting data: 10.04.08 The family of a teenager who died after he was shot in a betting shop make an internet appeal over his murder. 29. Grappling with global terror conundrum data: 19.03.08 Roger Hardy reports from Stockholm as experts debate how to fight "global insurgency." 30. Rising yuan threatens small exporters in China data: 10.04.08 One report estimated that up to 20 percent of low-end exporters could go belly-up this year as the harsher operating environment dissolves profits and demand slows in major markets like the United States. |