Active Living Collection

Wellborn's 2011 Product Launch adds a wealth of new door styles, finishes, and finish techniques to the Active Living Collection. This explosion of offerings allows you to design a kitchen that matches your taste, while meeting your needs for years to come.

Kitchens are the highest function room in the house; they are full of potential sources of strains, repetitive motion, and awkward positions. In addition, all residents of the home use this space; therefore, it needs to be accessible by the least able and the most able person as well as the tallest and smallest. Wellborn's Active Living Cabinetry can help create rooms that allow people of all ages to be active and self-sufficient.

Wellborn's Active Living Collection offers ergonomic solutions that can assist in reducing some of the fatigue of older adults while optimizing their sense of overall well-being. Proper ergonomic design can also help prevent repetitive strain injuries that can lead to long-term disability.

The following are recommendations that can benefit the young and old alike:

• Reduce work with static muscle effort (sustained positions)
• Increase use of mechanical lifts
• Keep work in "neutral zone"
• Eliminate or reduce twisting
• Place heaviest pots and pans on mid-level shelves and light items on lower levels.
• Use a sit-stand chair at the counter for frequent chopping and cutting.
• Increased task and general lighting
• Position tools and controls easily within reach
• Replace door knobs with levers or open handles

Incorporating ergonomics into a kitchen design is important for all residents of the home.

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

 Thomas Jefferson

The Active Living Collection is available at a variety of price points and construction levels.

The menus to the left will guide you through the entire Active Living Collection.