The Best Home Lift for a 3-Storey House in East Legon

East Legon has become shorthand for a particular kind of Ghanaian home: contemporary, multi-storey, built with real intent around finishes, natural light, and entertaining space. Many of these houses are built G+2 — ground floor plus two upper storeys — which puts them squarely in the range where a home lift stops being a luxury flourish and starts being a genuinely useful piece of the house. This is a walkthrough of how to think about model choice for exactly that scenario, using a hypothetical G+2 East Legon house as the example throughout.

The scenario: a G+2 house, three different households

Imagine a typical G+2 East Legon home: ground floor with the main living and entertaining space, first floor with bedrooms, second floor with a master suite or additional living space and perhaps a roof terrace. The layout is common across the area, but the household living in it changes what “the best lift” actually means. Three plausible households, three different right answers.

Household one: a couple, downsizing lifestyle, no immediate accessibility need

For a couple who simply want the convenience of not climbing two flights of stairs multiple times a day — carrying groceries, moving between floors for work calls, going up to the terrace in the evening — the priority is a lift that feels premium and unobtrusive rather than one built around future accessibility needs. Series III is a strong fit here: it’s the essential model in the range, with a 360° panoramic polycarbonate cabin, a frameless aluminium door, and the smallest footprint in the range at roughly 1,010 mm clear space. It carries up to two people at 210 kg capacity and installs in 2–3 working days — proportionate to a household that wants the benefit without over-specifying the house.

Household two: multi-generational, parents and grown children under one roof

Many East Legon homes house extended family across generations — parents on one floor, grown children and grandchildren on another, everyone moving between floors throughout the day for meals, visits, and shared living space. Here, a larger cabin earns its keep: Series IV, with its dual-door European design, upgraded quiet motor and suspension, touchscreen controls, and auto-return function, suits a household where the lift is used frequently by multiple people across the day, not occasionally by one or two. Its clear space requirement is close to Series III’s at around 1,000 mm, so it doesn’t demand significantly more room, but it brings a noticeably more refined ride and control experience for a busier household. If the household includes small children or older relatives who might use the lift unaccompanied, the auto-return function alone is a meaningful convenience.

Household three: a wheelchair user, or planning for one

If any member of the household currently uses a wheelchair, or the family is planning ahead for a parent whose mobility is expected to decline, the decision shifts to the Max variants — Series III Max or IV Max — which are wheelchair-capable by design, with a wider cabin (internal diameter of 1,160–1,240 mm depending on series) and correspondingly larger clear space requirement of around 1,430 mm. Series III Max keeps the panoramic cabin and retrofit-friendly self-supporting build at family-size capacity (240 kg, up to 4 passengers); Series IV Max adds the quieter motor and wider finish choice (20+ designer finishes) at the largest cabin size we currently offer. For a household with a genuine accessibility need, the Max cabin size isn’t an upgrade for comfort’s sake; it’s the difference between a lift the wheelchair user can actually use independently and one they can’t. Our detailed comparison of home elevators against stairlifts is worth reading if accessibility is the primary driver for your household.

Space planning for a G+2 house

Whichever model fits your household, the planning question is the same: where does 1 to 1.5 square metres of stable, level floor space exist on every floor, in a straight vertical line? In a typical East Legon G+2 layout, the strongest candidates tend to be:

• Beside the main staircase in the entrance hall, where a panoramic cabin reads as a design feature rather than an add-on — particularly striking in homes with a double-height entrance.
• A stairwell void, if the staircase design includes one, keeping the lift fully self-contained within existing structure.
• A corner of an upstairs landing, especially useful where bedrooms are split across the first and second floors.

Because every model in the range is self-supporting — no shaft, no pit, no machine room — any of these locations works without structural demolition, and installation for the standard cabins runs 2–5 working days depending on model. See the full home lift range for exact dimensions to check against your own floor plan.

Finish choices for a contemporary Accra home

East Legon houses tend to favour clean, contemporary interiors — and the cabin finish is one of the more visible design decisions in the whole installation. Series III offers 14 finish options, and Series IV Max extends to 20+ designer finishes, giving enough range to match anything from a warm timber-and-brass entrance hall to a cooler, minimalist palette. It’s worth bringing finish samples or photos of your interior to the home survey stage, so the cabin is chosen alongside the rest of the house rather than as an afterthought once the structural decision is made.

Getting the model choice right for your specific house

Every one of these recommendations depends on details a written guide can’t see — your actual floor heights, where in your home the space genuinely exists, and how your household will use the lift day to day. That’s exactly what a home survey is for.

Book a free home survey and we’ll help you match the right model, Max or standard, to your G+2 East Legon house and household.