Like a fine wine, your house should age well.

I'm Kelly Wilkness here with Anita Joyce and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks,

Episode 443, Designing for the Long Hall.

Today, we're going to be giving you tips for designing a truly forever home or a multi-generational home.

You'll be hearing design advice and tips for creating a home that will serve the needs of older relatives

and stay in step with your own inevitable march of time. While it might sound

very oh so practical, we're going to show you how to make these choices with style, of course,

because a fair or ever home isn't about decorating with just timeless style. It's also about designing

with time in mind. A very, very big thank you to all the veterans,

because if you're listening, the day this episode comes out, it is November 11, 2020 Veterans Day.

So thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you've done for

our country. Thank you for your service and we salute you. And we must give credit to Darcy H. who came up with this

wonderful topic for us to discuss on the episode today. So thanks a lot, Darcy. It's a really

interesting topic and Anita and I really enjoyed researching it and I think that a lot of the

information will be sharing today is really going to be helpful to a lot of people especially

now because during the pandemic there have been a lot of families who because of desire or

necessity have combined so there's a lot of multi-generational living going on. Right. And when we

built our house seven years ago, I mean, my mother is in her 80s. And I did think about this when we

were building our house about what would happen if she had to move in with us. So I really did,

and I'll be talking about some things that we did so that if she did

move in with us, it would work for her in her later years. Of course, the joke was on me. She's doing fine.

She lives on 40 acres, and she's having no problems. She just finished. It was a waste of time,

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