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A private garden is accessible by a glass panel.

The space also offers a built-in bench and a niche for crutches.

In renovating the 90-square-foot kitchen of a Boston apartment, architect Chris Greenawalt drew upon both spatial and material solutions to create a pleasing and wheelchair-accessible space to accommodate all three of its tenants.

Greenawalt also clad the undersides of taller cabinets in marble to create an attractive aesthetic from every angle.

On the first floor, a gentle ramp ensures accessibility to common areas; all passageways are at least three feet wide. “Our goal was to accommodate a wheelchair without having the house feel designed differently at all,” says principal Lisa Gray. The builder on the project, Scotty McClelland, has known and worked closely with the families for many years.

Architect Erick Mikiten helped Melanie and David Maher build a house in Livermore, California.