How can you design interior styles when you are disabled?

An interior is very personal, from a sleek design with modern furniture to a more cozy, cozy design with cushions and lights. Everyone has their own taste. After an accident, for example an occupational accident (Dutch: bedrijfsongeval), your interior sometimes needs to be completely adjusted. This is because otherwise you can no longer live at home due to the injury.

Modern or cozy interior and injury

Imagine you have a modern interior. You have a nice low sofa and a lounge chair where you can sink completely into. Or you have a cozy interior with a sofa where you can sink completely into to watch TV or lounge with friends and family. A beautiful interior for a healthy person. After all, you have no trouble getting out of the chair or the long couch. And your bed is also low with a soft mattress, wonderfully to your liking and no problem because you are healthy.

All of this can change overnight after an accident. Because suppose you have suffered a back injury from a traffic accident or an accident at work, or you have suffered such serious injuries from a collision on your bicycle that you ended up in a wheelchair. You can then absolutely no longer sit on your own couch, sit in your relax chair or lie in your own bed. In any case, not without the necessary tools.

Still an interior to your taste in the event of an injury

Of course you also want to furnish your interior to your own taste after an accident. This will have to be done with the necessary adjustments or with custom-made furniture. Fortunately, there are companies that can arrange this for you as a personal injury victim. These furniture makers discuss with you what limitations there are and come up with solutions so that you can still sit on a sofa as desired or sleep in a dream bed.

Very nice of course that various adjustments are possible in your interior. However, this involves high costs. Custom-made furniture is expensive because of the many hours it takes to make it. After all, it is not assembly line work. The question then is who will pay for all the modifications to your interior. You probably cannot do this yourself due to the high costs associated with custom-made furniture.

Stories about the costs of an adapted interior

In the Netherlands, but also in many other European countries, cars are compulsorily insured against liability. In addition, employers are often insured against liability for occupational accidents of its employees and contractors.

If the accident with injury is the result of a traffic accident or an industrial accident, there is often a liable party and a personal injury insurer. In the Netherlands, a personal injury victim is entitled to the help of a free personal injury lawyer (Dutch: letselschade advocaat).

Good personal injury lawyers ensure that your personal injury is fully reimbursed. This concerns, among other things, loss of income due to incapacity for work, medical costs and costs for calling in household help. But modifications to your home are also part of your personal injury compensation! It is therefore important to let your personal injury lawyer know, for example a personal injury lawyer in Utrecht (Dutch: letselschade advocaat Utrecht) that you can no longer sit on your couch or sleep in your bed due to the injury you have sustained.

So have you been in an accident? Then you can still enjoy your interior by custom furniture or by having your furniture adjusted!