r/MadeMeSmile • u/HoneyRush • Aug 01 '26

Good Vibes Perfectly sized

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u/CastleofWamdue Aug 01 '26

this should not be a hot take, but you should design your house / flat around you.

Of course this is how her space should be, and this is how anyones space should be, designed for them. Your space your rules.

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u/Sennten Aug 01 '26

Its super difficult and expensive though. We live in a society of one-size-fits-all, even and especially when it doesnt, and falling outside the standard range makes trying to adapt your environment suck

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u/CastleofWamdue Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

I do get what you mean. I am in the process of getting a new bathroom, and the costs just keep going up. I am not even trying to do anything so unique but give the size of my bathroom is way more expensive than I though it would be.

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u/Valhern-Aryn Aug 02 '26

I'm a bit under average male height (taller than the average woman) and shit STILL doesn't fit me well often 😭

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u/Sennten Aug 02 '26

I remember a military study being done for aircraft, and they found that even just in terms of physical dimensions a very small minority of the population actually fit within the average range.

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u/CastleofWamdue Aug 01 '26

sad reflection of real life to be fair.

I am in a lease hold flat, so whilst I have the freedom to what I want, it will never increase the value of my lease hold.

(for clarities sake, I am in the UK, and I "own" the last 40 years of the lease)

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u/SophisticatedScreams Aug 01 '26

I don't think it's a lack of design skill that prevents people from having this.

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u/CastleofWamdue Aug 01 '26

you are right money is an issue, be it in terms of the cost of adaption or if you are renting vs owning.

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u/SophisticatedScreams Aug 02 '26

It's that It's considered a "custom renovation " instead of a necessary accessibility adaptation. This should be funded, rather than expecting folks with disabilities to be independently wealthy

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u/IamNotPersephone Aug 01 '26

We used to. Even just a hundred (ish) years ago, homes came “unfitted” and you would hire a carpenter to build you cabinets your size.

Then mass manufacturing, mail order catalogs, department stores, etc “standardized” everything for efficiency. And now we have this.

Fun story I uncovered while doing research on my 120 y/o home. I guess the dude who standardized kitchen counter heights based his measurements off of the “ideal” person: an able-bodied 6’ tall man. The document was a proto/quasi-eugenics thing, used quite a bit by the Nazis in the forties.

Anyway, the result is highly ironic considering that even at the time the primary user of kitchens were not men, but women. And because of nutritional differences, their average height back then was probably less than our modern average (this last part is speculation).

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u/ElectricalLaugh172 Aug 02 '26

Curious if you recall who that was? I know the 36 inch counter height standard has been criticized for ages but didn't know about the eugenics thing.

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u/IamNotPersephone Aug 02 '26

It was a 2016 Atlas Obscura article, “The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s.” And the guy was Ernst Neufert. And I misremembered; he was more connected to Nazi ideology than I said above.

But his body wasn’t the 6’ body. That was Le Corbusier’s Modulor design, which is contemporary to Neufert. He also had ties to eugenics thought and fascist philosophy.

But, my memory smashed the two together. There were pieces of each that sorta combined.