At Jenkins Homes, we understand what it’s like living in a house with kids. What worked when they were small…doesn’t always work as they grow! In every home we collaboratively design, we intuit our clients’ current and future needs based on everyday conveniences, from major to minute. We take every client’s personal needs into consideration, while bringing things they may not have thought about yet to their attention. Things like:
We know it’s more cost-effective to design a home with future needs in mind, rather than retrofit an existing space when the time comes. Many working parents find themselves not only taking care of their children… but also beginning to worry about their aging parents. When designing a home, it’s often important to balance current needs with potential future needs for multigenerational living.
That’s why we’ll suggest things like adding additional studs into the bathroom walls, so that grab bars may be safely installed should the need arise, ensuring hallways and door frames are ADA-compliant, allowing extra space for wheelchair access, pre-wiring the home for a future generator install, to ensure safety and comfort for years to come, or insulating and plumbing the garage, for easy conversion into a functional living space.
As your family grows, so too does the accumulation of “stuff.” And believe us when we say that nothing can make a big house feel small quite like clutter can. Whether it be toys, linens or precious photo albums, we’re experts at making sure there’s a place for everything–right down to the minutia. With a deep understanding of storage needs and stuff management that comes from raising families of our own, we know things….like that space under the stairs can be a hidden playroom, that kitchen island can have cabinets all around it and narrow shelves for cookbooks, and that hallway has just enough space for a window seat with storage but can also double as a diaper-changing station for the time being.
