{"id":136559,"date":"2022-02-23T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=136559"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:08","slug":"pink-vintage-blue-and-green-kyra-gets-to-go-all-out-in-her-own-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/23\/pink-vintage-blue-and-green-kyra-gets-to-go-all-out-in-her-own-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink, vintage blue and green \u2013 Kyra gets to go all out in her own home"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Kyra\u2019s home you\u2019ll see all the colours of the rainbow. She is the creative type and loves to paint. She gets to go all out on the largest creative project she has ever undertaken: her own accessible home. All too often, accessibility is not a given for Kyra.<\/p>\n

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Kyra behind her Lego typewriter. It's not finished yet, but the mint green color is already cheering Kyra up.<\/span><\/p>

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Kyra\u2019s home is her canvas. A nook in \u2018her\u2019 room has been painted a shade called A0.10.50, which is a shade of pink. The wood panels in the hall have been painted \u2018vintage blue\u2019, a bright shade of light blue. Kyra Mulders, 23, likes to paint and draw, has recently begun to create buttons of epoxy resin, and also likes to build things out of Lego bricks. A bouquet made out of Lego pieces sits on a sideboard. The project she is currently working on, a typewriter made out of mint green Lego pieces, sits next to her computer.<\/p>\n

Room in her own home<\/h2>

A lot of modifications had to be made to the house in Leiderdorp where Kyra lives with her boyfriend, Sander. Not only because the house had been neglected for dozens of years, but because it wasn\u2019t wheelchair-friendly. While she is still able to walk short distances, she finds it quite exhausting, so she increasingly uses her wheelchair. She suffers from the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a hereditary disorder which is causing her connective tissue to weaken. Kyra and Sander are saving up for a lift to be installed in their house. Once they have got that, their home will be completely future-proof.<\/p>\n

Kyra has a room of her own in her own home, on the ground floor, behind the garage. This allows her to remain at home without any help on those occasions when Sander is away for a weekend. The room has been equipped with a toilet, small kitchen, bed (placed against the pink wall), desk and several bookcases full of colourful books.<\/p>\n

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Kyra in front of her pink wall<\/span><\/p>

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Pride and joy<\/h2>

When we go upstairs to the first floor, where the living room is situated, we meet two cats: Alice (named after the heroine of Alice in Wonderland<\/em>) and Remus (named after Remus Lupin from the Harry Potter books). The short wall in the L-shaped living room is the next project Kyra hopes to tackle. She has just picked out the colours, and shows us the paint colour strips on the coffee table. The lower half of the wall will be light green (No L0.20.50), and closer to the ceiling she intends to paint a line in a darker shade of green (No L0.30.20).<\/p>\n

The bathroom on the second floor is Kyra\u2019s pride and joy. \u201cI picked out everything in here myself, from the taps to the tiles. If I ever get to the point where I\u2019ll need a wheelchair in the shower, all the sizes and proportions will be right. And it looks quite lovely, with these blue tiles and black details.\u201d<\/p>\n

The room next to the bathroom reveals how she came by her love for painting. \u201cMy Mum painted the mountain scene behind our bed.\u201d The landscape painting contains many shades of blue, such as \u2018ravelijn\u2019 and \u2018royal blue\u2019.<\/p>\n

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