Collin County Living Well Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 23

Beautiful convenience

Calvin and Deanna Field had two main objectives when they
bought their Richardson home in 1995. Since they both grew up
in the area—Calvin graduated from Richardson High School and
Deanna from Plano Senior High School—they wanted their daughter to be in one of those school districts. And two, they needed a
single story house because of Deanna’s disability.
They researched their options. Calvin says, “As a young family
we felt we could get more value from an existing home rather than
building new. The house had been recently updated by a do-it-yourselfer, so the interior was fairly new—although we found out later
some people are not cut out for do-it-yourself!”
In 2009, they remodeled the master bathroom. “Our primary goal
was to make the bathroom wheelchair friendly, but we absolutely did
not want an institutional look. We wanted more open space, but had
to fit within constraints of the existing structure. Elite was able to
re-arrange the major elements—closets, toilet, sink and shower—to
make more eff