Residential Home Elevator

Living in a home that has a residential home elevator comes with a lot of advantages. Most people who have them installed in their homes have become quite attached to their elevators to the point that they can longer imagine going about their day-to-day activities without it.

The Sound of Music

If your residential home elevator plays elevator music, listening to it over and over again for a couple of weeks will drive you up the wall. But that's only the start of your relationship. After a while, you may see it as part of your daily morning ritual – you use it when going down to your living room or when going out of the house. And, if the elevator in your office plays a different music, rest assured you will come to love your elevator's music over that of your office. You may also learn to appreciate and memorize the bumps and stops of your elevator in time. It is an acquired taste, and where other passengers may start at a bump, you can just smile at them pleasantly as if nothing happened. It is your elevator, after all.

The Squeeze

There are some residential home elevators that are more notoriously known as "small elevators". These are built to carry at most, three passengers, if they are small enough, and will leave little room for anything else. But you will begin to adjust to these small elevators, first by preferring to ride alone in the cab. Of course, as you start to incorporate the use of this elevator in your daily activities, such as doing your groceries and laundry, you will realize that your supplies may weigh the elevator beyond its capacity. But, you will learn to adjust.

The Neighbors

In more normal circumstances, you would probably have neighbors that you would never get to meet. There will be neighbors that you consider as acquaintances, and you will also have neighbors that will become your lifetime friends. But this is not the case with your residential home elevator. It becomes your "neighbor" not by chance or accident, but by design. Being the single means of vertical transport in your home, it is inevitable that you will meet all your "neighbors" – the ones you like, the ones you don't, and all the other neighbors that fit into their own classifications. And, you are going to meet them again too, and inevitably as well.

Like it or not, you are going to make sacrifices if you are going to have a residential home elevator in your home. But the adjustments you make are not all sacrifices. A very good thing about residential home elevators is that you don't have to climb up and down the stairs anymore. You can go from one room on the third floor to another room in the basement without having to catch your breath. Although it does cost a lot to own even the cheapest residential home elevators, the benefits make it a worthwhile investment.