Kaitlin’s post

In all my wonderful 4 years of my undergraduate college education, I have never been so excited about one class. In all honestly I had no clue what I was getting into until that first day of class, but I sat there and said “Kaitlin it is your last quarter why not take on a large project that you can give your whole heart to.” So, here I am already in love with this amazing family to the point where I want to call up ABC and see if they can give us the Extreme Home Makeover budget. At the same time I am excited for all of the work including fundraising the money to complete this project.

With that, I am getting more and more excited about my team’s’. We chose to combine Caleb’s Needs with Interior Design since the two go hand in hand. His family told us that one thing they would like to see is Caleb functioning as an independent individual in the family. This means the simple things like making the faucet reachable so he can wash his hands in the bathroom with no help. We are working to get his arm span and other similar measurements to make sure that all the adjustments we make meet his height and reach. My feeling is that he is the main focus of our project since he is one of the main reasons we chose this family. We had the opportunity to define our scope with the Space Team. We will be making the decisions on the interior design (whether it is the master bathroom, his current bathroom, or an added bathroom) and apply all of the research and learning to the design of his new room and bathroom.

-Kaitlin MATE ’10