Boy, do I need advice! I am a powerchair user, and my chair is extremely heavy duty, powerful and fast. Our new home has a very open floorplan in the living, dining and kitchen areas, but still some tight corners in the hallways I must navigate. Most of the time, I do fine. But getting up to let the dogs out in the middle of the night, or going to the bathroom when I'm half asleep, or when I'm rushing around trying to clean house---is when I get into major trouble. My nickname is "Oops!" Last night I wiped out the wall edges in the master bathroom. The corners where the walls join together are rounded, with metal under them, which I've obliterated--tore the metal right off, and gouged the drywall. I have had copious experience in repairing these areas in the past, as well as the football-sized holes I can make in the drywall if I forget to turn off my joystick controller and accidentally catch my sleeve on the joystick. The corners are my main concern, since I can't seem to find any way to prevent obliteration, and they take so long to repair. I've tried the plastic corner pieces I can find in Home Depot, but I wipe them out quickly with my heavy metal casters. Amazing how fast they come off the wall, along with the metal beading and drywall. One "oops" and I have a week's worth of work ahead of me patching it up. This is the first home I've ever owned (okay, co-owned with the mortgage company). Previously, I've only been able to rent, and fixing up all the holes each time I moved was a major, major job for me. No, hubby is of no use. He's the absent-minded-professor type, at home in his math books and useless at any home stuff. I once asked him for a hammer to pull a nail out of the wall, and he brought me a double ended balpeen. The house is essentially my baby and if I wreck it, I fix it. Do any of you have any suggestions for preventing the total wipe out of those precarious corners? Anything that can withstand a heavy powerchair blow? Yes, my friends have already told me to park the chair in the garage and crawl. <G I've worked so hard on this new home, and don't want to destroy it! Thanks for any ideas you all can share. I'm really stumped by this one. And looking at last night's destruction is just too depressing for words. Debi in Las Vegas