Residential Interiors for Lifetime Living

As a designer, you make a difference in your clients' lives by creating attractive and functional living spaces. But your design goal should go one step further-to create a living space that allows your clients to live independently and safely through all phases of their lives. This course introduces you to the design principles, guidelines and practices for lifetime residential living spaces. It takes you beyond good design practices to understand life issues-the implications of normal aging, chronic illness and disabilities. You will learn about products, materials, and communication strategies, and complete design projects for specific client cases. At course end, you will understand the importance of incorporating lifetime living design strategies into your everyday design process-and have the knowledge to do it. Course emphasis is on kitchen and bath design. Drawing is not required for this class; written and illustrated projects are acceptable to demonstrate an understanding of the assignment.