Accessible Home Design & Remodeling in New Jersey
Live in Place Designs specializes in accessible home design and remodeling for homeowners throughout New Jersey. From accessible bathrooms and kitchens to whole-home renovations, home additions, and first-floor living, we combine health-informed design with construction integration to create homes that are beautiful, functional, and built to support how you want to live—today and as your needs change.
Designed Around
How You Live
Deciding to shape your home around how you live is the hardest step — and the best time to design well. Once you’ve made that decision, the goal isn’t simply to add features. It’s to create a home that keeps you independent, still feels like yours, and lives beautifully. That’s the work we do.
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aging in place, adapting your home for a disability, living with a chronic or progressive condition, or creating a more inclusive home for a multigenerational family, every project begins with understanding your goals, your daily routines, and how you move through your home.
This health-informed approach guides every design decision — creating spaces better equipped to support you now and adapt with you over time.
Thoughtful Design. Better Remodeling.
Every successful project begins with thoughtful planning. Construction brings a design to life, but the decisions made before the work begins shape how well your home supports you for years to come. The difference isn’t any single accessible feature — it’s how every element works together.
From layout and circulation to lighting, storage, fixtures, and finishes, thoughtful design creates a home that’s more functional, more intuitive, and more adaptable. And by anticipating your future needs now, you invest once — in a home that keeps working — instead of paying to redo piecemeal fixes later.
Accessible Bathroom Remodeling
The bathroom is often where accessible design makes the biggest difference to daily life. A well-designed accessible bathroom protects your independence and privacy, makes everyday routines easier and more comfortable, and is far safer—without ever looking clinical. It should feel like a beautiful bathroom that works perfectly for you.
We design accessible bathroom remodels around the people who use them, including handicap-accessible bathroom remodeling for a wide range of mobility and functional needs. Every design is tailored to the home, your goals, and the level of accessibility required — integrating layout, fixtures, product selections, and construction details into one coordinated plan, so the finished bath works as a complete space rather than a collection of features.
- Zero-threshold showers
- Roll-under or accessible vanities
- Comfort-height toilets
- Grab bars w/wall blocking
- Wider doorways
- Slip-resistant flooring
- Accessible lighting and controls
- Universal Design fixtures
Accessible Kitchen Remodeling
The kitchen is still the heart of the home — where meals happen, and people gather. An
accessible kitchen remodel makes everyday cooking easier and more enjoyable, supports your independence, and lets people of every age and ability share the space.
We design accessible and Universal Design kitchens around the people who use them and the way the household really lives. Layout, work surfaces, cabinetry, storage, appliances, lighting, and circulation are planned together — so the kitchen is easier to use and a genuine pleasure to be in.
- Varied-height work surfaces
- Roll-under sinks and work areas
- Pull-out and easy-access storage
- Accessible appliance placement
- Task and under-cabinet lighting
- Easy-to-operate faucets and fixtures
- Accessible switches and controls
- Universal Design features
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Whole-Home Remodeling & Home Additions
Sometimes the best solution can’t live in a single room. Creating first-floor living, opening up circulation between spaces, adding an accessible bedroom-and-bath suite, or making room for a multigenerational household may mean rethinking more of the home — or expanding it.
We design whole-home renovations and accessible home additions that bring these needs into one coordinated plan: first-floor primary suites; bedroom-and-bath suites for a child or family member with a disability; in-law and multigenerational suites; dedicated therapy or wellness spaces; expanded living areas; and reconfigured layouts that improve accessibility and accommodate caregivers when needed.
Why Live In Place Designs ?
A different approach to accessible design
Whole-Space Planning
Homes are being asked to support more people, more generations, and more complex needs — from multigenerational living that requires greater privacy and independence, to caregiving arrangements that shape how the home works for everyone involved. For children with disabilities, planning may include therapy and sensory spaces, adaptable bedrooms and bathrooms, safe areas for play and learning, and room for caregivers and equipment.
- Accessible bathroom and kitchen remodeling
- Single-floor and first-floor remodeling
- Whole-home accessibility renovations
- Accessible home additions
- ADUs and ALUs
- Multigenerational living spaces
- Pediatric Design and Home Modifications
- Home therapy and wellness spaces
- Accessible outdoor living
Health-Informed Design
Our expertise in health-informed design is grounded in understanding how conditions and disabilities can affect mobility, balance, cognition, transfers, fatigue, and everyday function at home — and how those needs may evolve. We design for a wide range of conditions, including:
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- ALS
- Muscular dystrophy (MD)
- Cerebral palsy (CP)
- Dementia
- Stroke recovery
- Spinal cord injury
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Other chronic or progressive conditions
Construction Integration
As your accessible remodeling contractor and design partner in New Jersey, we deliver the work through one coordinated team — or we work directly with your own contractor. Either way, we stay involved throughout the project to carry the design and accessibility requirements through construction:
- Architectural and engineering services
- Detailed construction plans
- Product and fixture specifications
- Specialty accessibility equipment
- Assistive technology integration
- Procurement and order coordination
- Contractor and project-team coordination
- Collaboration with OTs and other healthcare professionals
- Design milestone reviews during construction
- Ongoing design support during construction
Start with a Design Assessment
Every Live in Place Designs project begins with a Design Assessment. This consultation lets us understand the people who will use the space, identify accessibility priorities, evaluate the existing home, and provide professional recommendations for the overall approach and next steps.
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Accessible Design and Remodeling in New Jersey
New Jersey homes range from older colonials and split-levels to ranches, townhomes, and newer construction — each with its own considerations for accessible design. Smaller bathrooms, multiple levels, narrow circulation, and limited first-floor living space often call for reconfiguring space or expanding the home’s footprint to get the best solution.
If you’re looking for an accessible home remodeling contractor serving New Jersey, we work with homeowners in Summit, Warren, Chatham, Millburn and Short Hills, Westfield, Princeton and West Windsor, Bernardsville and Basking Ridge, Morristown, Lawrence Township, and Cherry Hill — across Mercer, Somerset, Morris, Middlesex, and Monmouth Counties. We also serve nearby Bucks and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania.
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FAQs our clients have asked
At Live in Place Designs, we understand that your needs are complex and require a unique solution. That’s why we prioritize design as the first step in our process. By starting with a design plan, we can ensure that the modifications we make to your home are tailored to your specific needs and requirements. Choosing design first for aging in place remodeling is critical to creating a safe, comfortable, and functional living space that meets your changing needs over time. This approach also helps to avoid potential dangers and costs of not properly planning and designing for these conditions.
Yes — we work with experienced New Jersey contractors to carry accessible and handicap-accessible design requirements through construction, coordinating plans, product specs and procurement, contractor coordination, and design milestone reviews.
Every project begins with a Design Assessment. We learn about the people who’ll use the space, identify priorities, evaluate the home, and recommend the approach and next steps — then develop the design and construction plans, assist with product selections and procurement, and coordinate through construction.
Because the design should reflect both the person and the home. Mobility, balance, cognition, equipment, caregiving, daily routines, and future needs shape the plan, while the home’s layout and structure determine what’s possible — evaluating both avoids one-size-fits-all modifications.
A full accessible home remodeling project includes design, construction plans, product selections and procurement, architectural and engineering services when needed, and coordination through construction. Live in Place Designs brings these pieces together with a person + place approach.
Yes. Live in Place Designs provides the design, construction plans, product specifications, and construction integration for handicap-accessible bathroom remodels — and coordinates the build through experienced remodeling contractors in New Jersey, or your own. You get a bathroom designed as a complete, accessible space and built to the plan.
Accessible remodeling takes a comprehensive approach rather than addressing one feature at a time. It considers the entire space — layout, circulation, bathing and toileting, storage, lighting, fixtures, equipment, and caregiving — across accessible bathroom and kitchen remodeling, first-floor living, home additions, and whole-home renovations, with planning for how your need may change.
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Your home should work as hard for you as your care team does.
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