My Garden, My Home is the next phase in the West Garden remodel at Schowalter Villa in Hesston, Kansas. Schowalter Villa is a retirement community that offers Independent Living, Assisted Living, Nursing Care and Memory Care, all on one large campus. This project takes place in the Nursing Unit on the west end of the main facility. Last fall, PKHLS Architecture and Regier Construction remodeled the West Gardens area creating a new Kitchen, Library and Living Room, all parts of the public areas that service the 300 and 400 halls residents.
This project is focusing on the resident hallways (300 Hall & 400 Hall) themselves and upgrades to the resident rooms. In the vignette pictured, we are studying a new vanity area in a semi-private room. We are adding solid surfaced vanity top and bowl, new faucet, mirror with storage options for each resident and increased lighting. On the opposite wall we are incorporating a new storage cabinet as well as closet storage options.
The reason we’re looking at it in 3d (courtesy of Google SketchUp) is that there is little space where the existing lavatory is located. We’re expanding that wall dimension as we expand the resident closet area, but we’re still trying to place a lot of “stuff” in this one little space. The last layer of complexity is that this is a semi-private room therefore each of the functions this vanity performs must be multiplied times two! Trying to keep the hand towels separate, finding separate storage for toiletries, etc.
We’re taking a field trip Friday to look at the individual products for evaluation.
