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Aging-in-Place Remodeling & Smart Home Safety
High-end design-build remodeling that makes the house beautiful, safer, and smarter for the years ahead.
Aging-in-place remodeling and smart-home safety are one specialty inside the renovation, not a gadget business and not the whole practice. The drawing, the construction, the accessible bath, and the safety devices are the same job. Curbless showers, clearer circulation, night lighting, locks, leak detection, and shades are decided while the walls are open. A firm that only adds grab bars, or a firm that only installs hubs, is not this contract. Design-build renovations and additions stay the work we lead with.
Who it is for
People renovating a house they intend to keep for the next 10–20 years, who want safety and easier daily use inside that renovation — not a technology installer after the paint.
What is included
- Curbless showers and clearer circulation while the rooms are open
- Lighting, locks, cameras, leak detection, and shades planned with the drawing
- A first-floor suite when stairs are the problem
- The same licensed crew that builds the renovation
Timeline
It follows the renovation you are already doing. A bath can move in weeks from permit. A whole-house or an addition takes the structure. The technology does not add a second project after move-in.
What we will not take
We are not a smart-home shop, and we do not lead with custom homes. If you want gadgets in a house we are not renovating, hire an integrator. If you want a new house on an empty lot, that is a different conversation.
iDesignBuildFlorida has spent thirty years on houses in Central Florida, under license CGC1531832. Whole-home renovations, baths, and additions are the practice. Aging-in-place and smart-home safety sit inside that work. The baths we can show are Lake Butler, the Reunion roll-in, and the Orlando wet room. Locks, a video doorbell, and leak detection are located on the drawing while those walls are open. They are not a system we claim was installed on every job.
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Built during the renovation. Not retrofitted later.
The house should keep working as your needs change, without looking like a clinic. Features are chosen for the job you are already doing — a bath, a kitchen, a whole home, or an addition — and the wiring goes in while that work is open.
Bathrooms
Lake Butler in Windermere is a curbless wet room with shades at the lake-facing glass. Reunion is a garden tub rebuilt as a wheelchair roll-in. Orlando is an open wet room with a linear drain. Those three are the baths. Cameras and leak sensors are not claimed as a system on them. Blocking for a grab bar still goes in before the tile, and a leak sensor is located before the floor is closed, when that bath is the room being renovated.
- Curbless or roll-in
- Blocking before tile
- Leak sensor before the floor closes
Bedrooms
The bedroom we can show is the Reunion second floor: unused height became a bedroom, a bath, and a living floor. A first-floor place to sleep is the same kind of drawing when the stair is the reason you cannot stay. We do not publish a monitored bedroom, and we do not call the Reunion bedroom a smart-home install.
- Reunion second-floor bedroom
- A first-floor suite when the stair is the problem
Entries
The door you actually use is where the lock and the video doorbell go, specified with the hardware while that door is already being replaced. Winter Park kept the street face. The entry work there was the house behind it, not a camera package on the front door. A doorbell does not fix a bath you still cannot enter.
- Lock with the door hardware
- Video doorbell at that door
Lighting
Night lighting and the switches that control it are located on the path to the bath while the ceiling is open. The shades at Lake Butler are the finished light control we can show: the afternoon sun on the lake-facing glass. This is not a theater system.
- Path lighting while the ceiling is open
- Shades at Lake Butler
Security
A lock, a video doorbell, and smoke and carbon-monoxide alerts sit on the renovation’s electrical plan. They are not a security contract for a house we are not renovating, and they are not claimed as installed equipment on the three baths.
- Lock and video doorbell
- Smoke and carbon monoxide on the same plan
Daily living
The point is the house you already live in: a wet room you can enter, a kitchen that still works, a shade you can use, and a thermostat you can reach. Reunion, Windermere, and Orlando are the baths. Winter Park, Lake Mary, and Lakeland are the whole-house kitchens. None of those kitchens is labeled a smart-home system.
- The bath you can enter
- The kitchen that still works
- Controls you can reach
Curbless, or a true roll-in
Curbless means you do not step over a curb. Roll-in means the opening and the floor are also clear for a wheelchair. Lake Butler in Windermere is the curbless wet room. The Reunion grand bath is the roll-in: a garden tub and a step-in shower rebuilt so a wheelchair can enter. Orlando is an open wet room with a linear drain. They are not the same detail, and they are not a plastic surround with a bar added later.
One room, or the whole house
If the bath is the problem, we open the bath. A kitchen can be finished in as little as two weeks from permit when the layout holds. If the stair, the bedroom, and the bath all have to change, that is a whole-house renovation or a first-floor suite, and it takes the structure. We will not turn a faucet swap into a whole-house contract, and we will not pretend a smart lock replaces a curb.
What “during the renovation” means
Blocking for a grab bar goes in before the tile. The handheld is on the valve. Leak detection is at the water heater and the bath while the floor is open. Night pathway lighting, occupancy sensors, smart locks, a video doorbell, smoke and carbon-monoxide alerts, automated shades, and a thermostat you can reach are located on the drawing. Hiring that work the year after means opening finished walls. People look this up as aging-in-place remodeling, accessible bathroom remodeling, or home safety modifications. The job is the renovation. It is not a senior catalog, and it is not only for one age.
On a renovation
Lake Butler — curbless wet room
The Lake Butler house in Windermere is the proof, not a gadget brochure. The bath is a curbless wet room: open to the water, finished like the rest of the house. The Reunion grand bathroom is the other one — a stepped-in shower rebuilt as a roll-in. Both were renovations. The safety was part of the job.
Locks, cameras, shades, and leak detection belong in that same sequence, because the walls and the wet room are already open. A custom home can carry the planning when a lot calls for a new house. That is secondary. The work we lead with is the house you already live in.
Cities we build this in
Related work
Wet Room · Orlando, FL
Orlando aging-in-place bathroom — curbless wet room
Whole-House Renovation · Lake Mary, FL
Lake Mary whole-house renovation
Whole-House Renovation · Winter Park, FL
Winter Park whole-house renovation
Whole-House Renovation · Windermere, FL
Windermere whole-house renovation
Whole-House Renovation · Lakeland, FL
Lakeland whole-house renovation
Accessible Bath · Reunion, FL
Reunion aging-in-place bathroom — roll-in shower
FAQ
Questions on this work.
- Is aging in place only for older homeowners?
- No. It is for anyone who wants the house to keep working as needs change — planning ahead, recovery, or a parent staying — without an institutional look.
- Where is the proof?
- Lake Butler in Windermere is a curbless wet room. The Reunion grand bathroom is a roll-in conversion from a garden tub. Those are renovations, not a product brochure.
- When does the smart-home work go in?
- While the walls and the wet room are already open. Wiring, device locations, and leak detection are decided with the tile and the doors, not retrofitted the year after.
- What is the difference between a curbless shower and a roll-in?
- Curbless means there is no curb to step over. Roll-in means the opening and the floor are also clear enough for a wheelchair. Lake Butler is a curbless wet room. The Reunion grand bath is a roll-in conversion from a garden tub and a step-in shower.
- Should this be the whole house or one room?
- One room when the bath or the kitchen is the problem. The whole house when the stair, the bedroom, and the bath all have to change together. We will say which one it is at the visit. We will not stretch a faucet swap into a whole-house contract.
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