Maple Crest community is a fantastic place if you’re looking to build a multigenerational home. Multigenerational homes are becoming incredibly popular as the needs for families grow and change. Whether you’re caring for aging family members, living with siblings to reduce costs, or living with family to care for your children, there are many reasons to live in a multigenerational home. The best multigenerational homes are designed to accommodate multiple generations from the very beginning. If you’re considering building a multigenerational home in Maple Crest, read on!
What is a Multigenerational Home?
At its core, a multigenerational home is a home where multiple generations of adults live together. This could be parents living with their adult children’s families, families of siblings living together, or simply adults from different generations of their family choosing to live together.
Benefits of Living in a Multigenerational Home
- Improved Relationships
- Added Safety
- Additional caretaking
- Financial security
- Additional free time
- Improved mental and physical health
There are many benefits to multigenerational living. One of the primary benefits is that families can grow close together and have a tightly knit bond. Grandparents can help parents raise their children and assist with the necessities of life, while elderly parents are not left by themselves in a lonely or potentially dangerous situation. There are also financial benefits to multigenerational living. Having more adults to contribute to the cost of the mortgage, utilities, and food can help lower the cost for everyone and make home ownership easier, allowing families to afford more luxuries. Multigenerational living also provides household members the chance to pursue hobbies, additional education, or training that could bolster their careers. Sharing the load of a household with multiple generations has also been shown to improve people’s mental and physical health and reduce burnout.
What to Include When Building a Multigenerational Home
- Accessibility
- Main Floor Bedrooms
- Plenty of Living Space
- Separate Bathrooms
- Separate Suites
- Separate Entrances
- Multiple Kitchens
- Extra Privacy Upgrades
- Use All Your Space
1. Accessibility
If you’re living with aging parents, accessibility is definitely something to consider. It’s important to design your home to include wide hallways and doors, ramps, and design features that could be difficult to accommodate for accessibility – such as raised rooms in a bi-level split or tight hallways.
2. Main Floor Bedrooms
Main floor bedrooms are a fantastic way to keep living quarters separate while also helping any household members with mobility issues. A main floor bedroom with a full bathroom ensures that everyone’s necessities are met on a single floor.
3. Plenty of Living Space
As a multigenerational household it’s important to ensure there’s plenty of living space for everyone. This might mean having multiple living rooms, finishing up the basement so there’s more liveable space, or even developing a garage suite to increase your living space.
4. Separate Bathrooms
If you’re living in a multigenerational household, the number of bathrooms is incredibly important. In order to preserve the sanity of everyone living in the home, it’s a good idea to plan for a minimum of one full bathroom for every two people in the home, and you want to ensure that every generation has bathrooms that belong to just them.
5. Separate Suites
Creating separate suites isn’t an option for every family, but if you choose to build basement or garage suites, it can make multigenerational living incredibly easy! If each generation has a suite that belongs to just them it can help with any privacy issues while sharing a single residence with family.
6. Separate Entrances
Another option for increased privacy while living in a multigenerational home is to build separate entrances. This will help family members feel more independent as their comings and goings aren’t monitored and like their privacy is protected.
7. Multiple Kitchens
Having multiple kitchens can make a multigenerational home much easier to live in. This allows families to cook separate meals without getting in each other’s way – multiple kitchens also make preparing holiday meals much easier! Whether you build two completely separate kitchens, a main kitchen and a smaller kitchenette, or create an outdoor kitchen, there are many ways to integrate multiple kitchens in a multigenerational home.
8. Extra Privacy Upgrades
In order to help with privacy even more, there are additional upgrades you can add to your multigenerational home. This includes added soundproofing between floors, lockable bedroom doors, separate entrances and suites, and separate utility hookups are all items you can choose to keep separate.
9. Use All Your Space
When you’re sharing your home with multiple family members, it’s a good idea to utilize all your space available. This means using your bonus rooms, finishing the basement, adding garage suites or useable space outside, and choosing an open-concept home can all help with having as much useable space as possible.
Maple Crest is a fantastic place to build your multigenerational home! If you’re looking to build a brand new home for your multigenerational living space, visit our show homes and speak with our builders.
