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Swimming, biking, hiking, and discovering are only a few of the fun activities associated with the summertime. Kids try to cram as much fun and adventure into this three-month period as possible, and what superior way to do so than by attending a summer camp program.

Summer camp can be a wonderful experience for any kid and just because a child may have special needs doesn’t mean they have to miss out. Learning, exploring, and participating in a special needs summer camp program can help your child to gain memories that they will never forget. Not to mention share a wonderful life time experience with other children just like them.

Children with special-needs and disabilities love to have fun in the sun with others and attending a summer camp that caters to special needs is the perfect opportunity for them to do so. Here is a guide of special needs summer camps for youth with disabilities in Breckenridge, Colorado. Check it out!!!

Adventure Camp
This is a cool outdoor education camp for children with developmental disabilities located in Breckenridge, CO. This program is designed to grant youths with special needs the opportunity to experience camping and nature by basing the pace of the program with the abilities of the participants. Available for kids ages 12 to 16 years. Starts June 15th to 18.

Contact Info:
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
Breckenridge, Colorado
Phone: 1-800-383-2632
www.boec.org
E-mail: cindy@boec.org
Cost: $500

Brain Injury Association Special Needs Camp
This is an adult summer camp for people ages 18 and over with brain injuries. Participants will be assigned a buddy for the week and will participate in cool activities such as: rafting, fishing, preparing meals, rope course and climbing wall. This is definitely a fun and adventurous camp. Please call for details and session dates.

Contact Info:
Brain Injury Association
Griffith Lodge
Breckenridge, Colorado
Phone: 303-355-9969 ext. 6

Camp Big Tree
This special needs summer camp is for who suffer from sensory integration disorders, learning and attention deficits. These will have the opportunity to participate in activities such as: rock climbing, river rafting and camping. Social skills and teamwork will also be a major focus point in this camp. Available for children ages 12-16 years. Please call or visit website for more information. Starts July 14th thru July 15th.

Contact Info:
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
Breckenridge, Colorado
Phone: 1-800-383-2632
www.boec.org
E-mail: cindy@boec.org
Cost: $600

Junior Adventure Camp
This special needs summer camp is specifically designed for ages 8 to 14 with special needs and disabilities. The will have the opportunity to explore nature, boost self-esteem and build up valuable life skills. The will participate in activities such as: team building, adaptive ropes course, nature skills, campfire, and river rafting. This is definitely a wonderful camping experience. Starts July 24th thru July 26th.
Call for more details or please visit the website.

Contact Info:
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
Breckenridge, CO
Phone: 1-800-383-2632
www.boec.org
E-mail: cindy@boec.org
Cost: $400

Wilderness Camp
This special needs summer camp is designed for people ages 16-28 years of age who have developmental disabilities. Participants will be involved in outdoor activities in order to help them build and establish social skills, teamwork traits and leadership qualities that will help them in their life. The mobile course is based on the Upper Colorado River. Starts August 1st thru August 5th. Please contact for more details.

Contact Info:
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
Breckenridge, CO
Phone: 1-800-383-2632
www.boec.org
E-mail: cindy@boec.org
Cost: $600

Considering remodeling your kitchen cabinets or layout in the near future? Depending on what’s needed and what you decide to do, re-designing your kitchen can be one of the biggest home improvement projects most owner-occupiers will do. I’m not just referring to kitchen DIY, where you might make a few additions or replacements to personalize the design with a few decorative kitchen tiles, or add convenience items such as a kitchen towel dispenser or kitchen cabinet organizers. (Although it’s amazing how easy it can be to give your kitchen cabinets and doors a new look with new pulls and knobs!).

Let’s consider what you should include in your kitchen plans…

To make it easier to remember, I’ll group topics under 3 main headings – facilities, space, and design. We’ll wrap up with a few comments about the practicalities of “making it happen”. Thinking through each of these will help make sure you develop a complete specification, and therefore a comprehensive remodel kitchen cost. Here we go…

Facilities

What do you need to include within the kitchen? That’ll depend on what you want from your kitchen.

For example, is you kitchen to be used only for food preparation and serving?
Then the minimum for most family kitchens would be:

• cooker
• hob
• sink
• refrigerator
• table or countertops
• storage for food and cooking ingredients
• storage for cooking utensils such as pots, pans, casseroles, etc
• storage for kitchen cutlery
• garbage container(s)

Other common items to remember:

• dishwasher
• freezer
• microwave oven
• kettle
• tea or coffee maker
• drinks dispenser
• toaster

What about family dining? Will that usually take place in the kitchen?

• dining table and chairs
• storage for dining crockery & cutlery

Does your home have a separate laundry or utility room? If not, you’ll need to plan space for items such as

• washing machine
• tumble dryer, or other means of clothes drying

Space

Once you’ve listed all the essential appliances and convenience items you want to have in your kitchen, the next step is to check that there is enough floor space available for them all. Remember too – unless you are planning to do major re-building work, you’ll need to accept a few “givens”, such as:

• sink position is limited by location of water supply and drains plumbing, and probably windows
• same with dishwasher or clothes washing machine
• cooker & hob positions are limited by gas and/or electricity supply connections and controls

You’ll see a repeated theme in the list above – “storage” – for all sorts of items from food to cleaning materials. That’s why kitchen storage cabinets play such a large part in the space allocation and costs. In fact, the largest component of cost in most kitchen re-design projects is the cost of kitchen cabinets and countertops, especially if you’ve chosen granite countertops.

Without already having good experience in kitchen cabinet design, you’d be well advised to select a local kitchen contractor, or at least visit a reputable kitchen showroom to get ideas on how best to use the available space, and develop practical ideas for possible kitchen floor plans.

Design

Along with developing potential floor plans, now is the time to bring the overall design of your kitchen together. What styles do you prefer – that would complement your home? Something contemporary – crisp, clean lines, bright and airy, maybe lots of shiny metal? Or would a warmer, natural or stained wood grain suit better – for example an elegant French kitchen, or perhaps a simpler, country style kitchen?

At this stage you should consider all aspects of your kitchen – materials, colors, texture and styles to make sure you have a coherent look:

• appliances – “white goods”, or built-in
• cabinets
• countertops
• floor covering
• walls
• lighting
• ventilation
• work flow

Making it Happen

The first question to ask (unless money is no object) is how much of your existing kitchen – appliances and cabinets – could be re-used, and still let you create your dream kitchen?

For example, if your cabinet frames are basically sound, and the existing floor layout is good for you, then you could avoid spending far more than necessary by simply refinishing kitchen cabinets, floors, walls, replacing aging appliances, and fitting contemporary kitchen light fixtures.

At the other end of the cost (and disruption) scale, you could have an expert cabinet maker building kitchen cabinets, fully customized to your design and style preferences, with brand new integrated appliances throughout, decorative kitchen tiles for the floor, and personalized picture kitchen backsplash designs on the walls. There would also be a modern kitchen island design featured in the center, and an elegant family dining space of course.

For many of us however, there will be trade-offs we need to make to get as close as possible to our ideal kitchen, while keeping within the bounds of affordability.

If this is your case, you could consider several lower cost approaches to kitchen construction, and especially cabinet installation:

• factory-built cabinets – can be installed by a kitchen fitter (not as highly skilled as a cabinet maker)
• flat-pack, or ready-to-assemble (RTA) cabinets – can be DIY installed, or by a kitchen fitter

refacing your existing cabinet doors and drawers – specialist task, but probably less costly than rebuilding all your kitchen storage cabinets.

But what if you’ve completed your dream kitchen specification, developed a practical layout design, selected your style preference, and chosen the best value installation approach, and its still way over your budget?

Then you’ve probably only 3 options:

• Phase it – split the project into a series of sub-projects, and complete each as they are affordable
• Finance it – take a loan to finance the project
• Forget it – for now at least… postpone your plans until you can afford it.