Kitchens and kitchen units
This section includes kitchen furniture with accessible features.
Fitted and made-to-measure kitchens often use standard fittings primarily to provide an accessible kitchen. Freestanding and mini kitchens are also included.
Adjustable height kitchen cupboards, worktops and sinks are manual or powered wall-mounted or freestanding systems which can be used for raising and lowering (including forward adjustment) of kitchen cupboards, hobs or ovens, sinks, tables and worktops. Some can be fitted to existing cupboards, many have anti-entrapment safety mechanisms. Many can be operated by seated users. Corner carousel and pull and swing units are designed to give easier access to the space available in a corner cupboard.
Kitchen shelving systems, pull-out platforms/larders and cantilever tables may provide assistance. Lifting platforms, bins with automatic opening lids, electric power points that can be set into a worktop and shallow sinks are available.
Shallow sinks may assist a user who finds their existing sink too low for them to work at comfortably or may help give extra clearance for a wheelchair user to position themselves in front of the sink.
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