Lesson 3 - Reimagining New Construction

There, this is Brett Schott-Cavis with Platinum Assisted Living Mentoring, and we are talking about building new construction right now. What do we do? How do we do it? How do we make it work? And how do we solve the problems of assisted living? There are so many issues with the physical building in this industry. You have these big boxes, right, that are just these big, ugly monstrosities that either look like a hospital or look like a hotel. Then you have these residential style homes where they convert a garage and they have a step down or a slope and It's just not practical. You can't fit people with wheelchairs. So if we're going to build new construction, 16 bed, platinum assisted living, what does that look like? Because there are so many of these 16 beds that are getting built, but they just look like small facilities. And we've talked about the different problems that they have with the long, ugly hallways, and it just feels like a hospital or hotel. So how do we want to do this? If we want to rethink this, we want to redesign this whole thing and solve the problems of them. what an assisted living is and looks like, if we want to make it more like designed after a boutique hotel or a mansion of a building or a neighborhood of mansions, how do we do that? So let me show you what we're doing and we'll just go through this. We'll talk about exterior, we'll talk about the interior, and then we'll look at a virtual building here. So here is our site plan for our property. So we're building a neighborhood. of mansions here. So four mansions, they're about 10,000 square feet. They're all 16 bed license homes. And we have about 7.6 acres here. And you see the roads up here and we have our own private street. So I want it to come in. You turn on this street through this big, beautiful gate, big gate over here. You have this private driveway essentially, and it's your own private street for this little custom neighborhood of mansions. And each building will look slightly different. They'll have different roofs, different coloring. They'll have different pop-outs. They'll have different textures, stones, siding, things like that, right? So it looks like it's all built by the same developer, but it looks like they're definitely unique, separate buildings. So that's what we have here, right? Here's our four buildings. So let's talk about some of these exterior problems that we solved. We do not want it to look like a facility. We don't want it to look like a small box, right? Which is a big box just done in the 16th, right? It's a small box. So, salt boxes, they have usually two of them next door to each other, right? You have your memory care one, your assisted living one, and they're like, they're real close together, right? They might have just a little breezeway between them, but that's not a neighborhood or a street or a house or a mansion, right? You have to have space between the houses. So, we have 50 feet of space between our homes here, right? So, each building is at least 50 feet away from the other one. So, it almost seems like… It almost is like based on the seven acres here, each property has like their own one acre lot. They're not subdivided, but it almost has that feeling, that impression because everyone has their own front yard. They have their own driveway. So I have this U-shaped driveway for each of these. And the drivers are 20 feet wide. That way you can park all along the side and then you can have people still drive past those cars. So everyone's going to have their own mailbox in front, right? They have their own driveway. They have their own front yard. Then there's gates between them, right? Because houses between your next door neighbors, you have a gate, right? You have a fence. You're separating your property from there. So that's what it looks like. You're driving down this road. This is a big tree. You're driving down this road and it looks like there's just four huge mansions here. Like who built this huge neighborhood of mansions? So that's kind of the impression, right? And we have, each of these has their own driveway and then it goes back around the side here. So all our staff parking is in the back. So We're avoiding the red curb. Talk to the fire marshal. Find out how wide of a road we need to be able to avoid that red curb. Have all the staff parking in the back. We have a front yard. We have a back yard. We have a mailbox. We have an actual next door neighbor, right? And they just happen to be more assisted living homes. But it actually feels like a next door neighbor because of the fence and because they're 50 feet away. If it was 15 feet away, if you could almost jump from building to building or you have like a breezeway between them, you know, that's really not the vibe that we're going for here. So... We were able to do all of that and then make it feel like its own little custom neighborhood. I have this about 100 feet here. This is all greenbelt, big pavilion. We'll have gardens built in here around the trees and little sitting areas. This huge green space here, and then this is the tree line, these black dots, and here's where our retention pond and fire tank and well and that kind of stuff are down there. We've created this neighborhood here, this mansion-style assisting...... a 16 bed neighborhood, right? So we've solved these problems of how do I make it not look like a small box facility where they're just crammed next to each other with a parking lot in front, the red curb, and it just feels like a school or some kind of commercial facility. So that's what we got going on. Let's talk about how we solve some problems with the inside. Let's switch over here and do a new screen share. And let's look, let's look at our building plans. All right. So here's our building. Again, it's about 10,000 square feet. It's 16 bedrooms. Everyone has their own private full bathroom. And then there's also a half bath up here at the front. So let me just walk you through and talk about the common problems that there are when building a new construction assisted living and how we solve those problems. So let me just orient you real quick. So front porch is here. Front door is here. I have eight bedrooms on this side, and then I have eight bedrooms in a row down this way. Okay. Now, again, when you have these small boxes, these new construction 16 bed that are really just a big box facility made small. Again, you walk up and you don't really know what it is, right? So again, we have a huge front porch. I want to say this is like 45 feet, something like that. Huge front porch right here. And it's vaulted. The actual front porch, this part here, this is vaulted here. And then it carries that vault line into the home. So the vault line kind of transitions about right here as you get into the great room. But this foyer is also vaulted and there's big, beautiful chandeliers you'd come in. So that you have, as you're walking through, you have this kind of like this V-shaped or triangle-shaped vault going all the way through into this beautiful grand foyer. Now, what you do not see when you open the front door is you do not see a nurse's station. You don't see that office window with the call buttons and the screens and the red lights and all that kind of stuff that just screams hospital, right? What you see is all the way to the back of the house. I don't want to say it's about 50 feet or so, but you'll see, and I'll show you the virtual mock-up of this. This is all glass wall. This is actually like 13 feet high of double layered, big windows, 13 feet high. And this room is vaulted ceilings right here where this line is, it's about 18 feet high. And then it lowers back down to the side wall, the exterior wall, about 13 feet high. So this huge glass wall, this is all glass. And then this is all glass right here. I'll show you what that looks like in a few minutes here. But as you walk through the front door right here, a beautiful vaulted foyer with a chandelier, and then you're looking all the way back down. So there's the dining room on this area, the living room on this side. So you're going to see the couches. You're going to see the tables. You're going to see people living, doing life with a huge glass wall behind them, right? This custom boutique style hotel. So you're solving this problem. If you walk in, now I feel like I'm in a hospital. You walk in, it's just like, ew. I don't want to be here, right? So that's one of the things that we did. We opened the first impression of the front door. The other thing that homes usually have is an open kitchen, right? People want to have that sense of home with this big open kitchen. Now, a lot of commercial facilities, small boxes, they will close off their kitchen and they kind of put it back in the corner there and residents can't really get there. Now there is a practical use to that, right? You don't want people with memory care to walk through the kitchen and that's reasonable. But you're losing that interaction, that sense of being in a real home, of seeing the chef, chit-chatting with the chef, talking to them, getting the smells, seeing that. So here's our kitchen here. So let me zoom in on this. Okay, so here's our kitchen here. Now here's the door to the kitchen. This is a solid wall up to here. And then this is seven feet of an island or a flat countertop space. This is where we do our plating. Right? So that means when they're here at the dinner table or they're sitting here watching TV, they can look in and they can see the chef, they can see the plating, they can see what's going on. Okay? This area right here. Here is also, this is all lowers, this whole area here, because there's no wall. This whole L, upside down L, is lowers with no wall. And then you see this little ridge here. This is a little like six inch pop-up. where the quartz goes up over and gives a little lip. That way people are not reaching in, they're not grabbing into the sink and getting into that area, right? You physically couldn't get your arm over and down enough into that. So it's preventing people from getting in there, grabbing knives, getting in the sink, doing things like that, right? If you have memory care. But everywhere you are, you're hearing, you're seeing, you're smelling, you have this whole great room right here where everyone's hanging out. Or over here in the secondary sitting room where you're able to see and watch and just feel like this is a home. It doesn't feel like a facility, right? You've taken the practical measures to keep people out, but now you've given the impression, the visual, the smells, the ability to chit-chat with the chef, to just roll up and be behind the bar and chit-chat with the chef as they're cooking. So, that's another thing that we did to solve this problem of this commercial kitchen style feel. Okay? The next important thing is assisted livings, they feel just dark. They feel closed off. They feel scary. They feel sterile. They feel like a facility, right? So you want this indoor, outdoor living. You want this like lots of natural light. So that's what we talked about here. We took, again, this whole thing, I want to say it's like 40 feet or so. All glass wall and then over here all glass wall. So you have this huge vaulted area here all glass the same with over here This is all glass wall. So let me just transition right now We'll show you what this looks like from the outside and then we'll we'll come back and we'll keep going Let's see. Let's change our screen here. Let's go over to let's go here Okay, so here's our building now. We're able to kind of spin around and see what's going on here So front porch is here. So we have two bedrooms here and a few more bedrooms here. So let's turn it this way. So here's where our bedrooms are on this side. Here is our great room under here. And then we have this area here. This is eight more bedrooms on this side. Okay. So let's spin around. So we have, we talked about this front door impression, right? You come through this big, beautiful front door here and you can look all the way back. So we'll spin you around. Now we talked about how high this is. This is 13 feet, right? So you have these plates, these pieces of glass are massive. They're about the same size as like a sliding glass door. They're like six and a half feet high, like four feet wide. These are massive windows and there's another header above it and then another half size of a massive window, right? So look at all of this. It's huge. This is the dining room in this area here and the great room is here. So if we spin you like this, you literally have two sides. of huge glass walls, right? So as you're coming from the front, you walk in the front door, and that's what you're seeing. You see all the way across. You see this huge, big, vaulted, grand custom mansion or small hotel kind of feel. So that is there. We've created this indoor-outdoor space, right? And again, it's not a parking lot behind you. It's not staff parking behind you. There's a fence back here at the end of the property to back up the backyard and behind the fences for the staff parks. But this is a backyard. There's literally grass and trees and you have a real backyard here. So from the great room, this is where you're hanging out. You're spending most of your time, right? You have all glass walls right here. Here's an exterior door. And then our patio is here. And this is our garden right here. So we're having a big bamboo garden here. So this is going to be our garden room. So I'll show you here from the second, when we go back to the next screen. But Part of our hallway here is this garden room and you have this huge glass wall. I want to say it's maybe 25 feet long where you're looking out into the garden and the backyard. And then from this side, this is the other hallway. Look at this. I want to say it's about 40 feet long of all glass wall right there. So let me switch you back and we'll break this down a little bit. Okay, so one of the things here we are solving is this idea of these long hallways. You go to assisted livings and you have the bedrooms on both sides. It's just like room number, room number, room number, room number, long, scary, ugly looking hallway, looks and feels like death. It smells horrible. So I want to solve a couple things. I don't want to have it look either like a hospital or like a hotel. I want it to look like this custom boutique style hotel. And then I also want to solve the problem of walking long spaces, having this long intimidating hallway as you get back to your room. So let's look at what we did here. So we have here's common area. And then here is technically our hallway. You could say, you know, if perhaps even starts here, but it really doesn't. So instead of having this long hallway here, what we did is we pop this room out. So here's, this is all six feet wide. Now this is 12 feet wide. So essentially we created another space. This is our garden room here, right? And we showed you from the exterior, this is all glass wall. Okay. Cause this, this ceiling is 10 feet high. So this huge glass wall here, and you're looking out, this is our bamboo garden. And then here's our tables where people are sitting out and having a patio kind of a picnics and lunches and stuff. So now you go from a common area. to another common area, right? You're going to have couches right here. You have a beautiful chandelier. You have a little side tables. You can sit there. You can read. You can just have a little bit of alone time, right? So you're taking away this long hallway because really you go from common area to another common area. And now you only have this tiny little hallway. Right. So I'm taking away the long walks. I'm taking away also that, that idea where you have this just boom, boom, boom, boom, just doors and, and, and on both sides, right? There is a little bit here, but this is realistically only like 25 feet. There's not a lot of that. So let's talk about the other side. The other side. Okay. Here's common area here. So now we have eight rooms in a row and you might think, wow, you have this. crazy long hallway. If you're going to have eight on one side and it's, see, it's not wrapping around like the other side. So let's, let's break this down here. So two things we want to stop, right? We want to stop the really long hallway. And then we also want to stop this idea of having rooms on both sides that looks like a hospital or a hotel. So same kind of thing, right? We have four bedrooms right here, two bedrooms here, and then two more. So we pop this out. So this one, we actually pop this room out 13 feet and an extra foot longer, and then framed out this little spot here and here, and then built in custom bookshelves here. So chandelier here. Now this is our library room, right? So we have a couple of high back chairs sitting here and here. You have the big bookshelf wall. I want to say it's like 15, 16 feet, the whole bookshelf wall, right? Wide. And then it's tall. It's like eight feet tall. So you now have another space, right? So you have your great room here. You have... a secondary sitting room here, which we'll come back to. We have this garden room here, and now we have the library room here. So we have four separate spaces for mom or grandma or grandpa to have their own time. Now, you see, here's our great room. This is our big fireplace wall, right? Fireplace in the middle, bookshelf on both sides of it, TV above the fireplace, huge vaulted ceiling, 18 feet high here, big elaborate fireplace. Then you have six foot opening on this side, six foot opening on this side. So if your room is number one over here, you can cut this way, right? And now you have really no hallway to go down, just a few, like 15 feet. Not a big problem, right? You can get to any of these rooms without walking down a long hallway because there's entrance on both sides now. Now, if you have to go down here, you're really going from common area to now another common area, not the hallway. You're going to the library room, right? It's got its own chandelier. It's got its own vibe. You could sit there, right? So now this is, again, not a hallway because now you went from common room, great room to library. And now there's just the tiniest little bit. There's only like 15 feet. Even if you're the last bedroom, you'd only have a hallway technically of 15 feet, which is just this space right here. So I took away the idea of having them on both sides where you feel like you're at a hotel or a hospital. And I made it this custom. boutique style hotel in design. Now, the other thing we haven't talked about, and you saw it on the 360, this whole thing from right here, all the way down, this is all glass wall. So you're sitting here in the library with your book or your coffee, and you're looking out the backyard, not a parking lot, right? You cannot see cars. It's fenced in. It's your own huge multiple acre backyard. So let's see. Now let's talk about the idea of common spaces, right? We have the big great room here. This is the big area where everyone's hanging out. But we also have this secondary area, right? So you have some love seats, some chairs, some recliners. And again, you have this big glass wall here. So we have a lot of deer around this area. So we can throw deer corn out in the front. And the grandmas just love sitting at the big glass windows because they just sit there and they watch the deer. We throw the corn, the deer come right up to the porch. So that's one of their favorite things. They watch the cars go by. They watch whatever's going on. They watch the deer. And that is a secondary space for people to hang out. You could have activities here. Now, a lot of times daughter will come visit. She wants like a private area, right? Her and mom just want to have a little private area, get away from everybody. Now that gives them this opportunity. Now you have another two other spots now, right? You have the little garden room here and that's a beautiful place to sit. You have the view of the garden here and then you have a library, right? You have the cute chairs. You can... grab a book or a newspaper and just sit there and chit chat with mom and daughter. And you've really solved a lot of these problems. Now let's talk about what else. Laundry is always an issue, right? The bigger the facility, the bigger the issue with laundry, because now you have one huge commercial laundry thing with these huge laundromats. And, you know, you have, everything's getting mixed up. You don't, you get to memory care and it's like, oh, she doesn't know if that's her sweater or that's her sweater. Like. Who knows what's going on here? So what we did to solve this problem is we added two laundry rooms. So we have a natural space for it anyways. So here's our hallway. At the end, we have a laundry room here. Let me zoom. So here's laundry. So they're not stackable. They're just one set with a butcher block above it and then sink here. So now you have laundry here and this one laundry room is only serving eight people, right? Because you have this side of the house, this side's going to this laundry room. And then over here at the end of this hallway, here's another laundry room, same exact setup. That is only serving these eight bedrooms. So now if you have something, you have socks, you have a sweater, something is like, oh, I don't know who this is, right? You only have eight people. instead of like a big box where you might have a hundred beds and it's like, I don't know who this is. Well, you know, that's when you get complaints from family from losing all their clothes. So we solved the problem with the laundry rooms. Now let's talk about bedrooms, right? Here's what we did for bedrooms. Cause most times, best case scenario, you get a nice room that just looks like a hotel room there. You know, it, it, it, that's usually the most common thing. There's no character to it. There's nothing, there's nothing custom to it. So that's not what we are, right? We, as a Platinum Assisted Living, we've designed a building like a boutique hotel. So we put in a little custom detail. So here's what we did. And we've kind of set everything up for us in a specific size and place so that we're encouraging people to put their furniture exactly where we designed it to go. Let me write that down a little bit more. So here's bedrooms. So they are good size bedrooms. Let's see. All right. So we have 27 feet across and... Eight and five. So 13, 13 feet wide. All right. So you have this five foot hallway here. That way that that's for ADA. Now bedroom is set right here. Okay. You have, we did a custom accent wall and it's the same at Platinum Mesa. Custom accent wall on every bedroom, right? That's done there. And then, so you put, you naturally, you're going to put your bed right here on this wall because across from it is a fireplace. So you have not a real working wood-burning fireplace, and that doesn't even make heat. A lot of these, it's a mantle, and then you have a pop-in electric fireplace inside of it. It literally does not even have to have heat. They make them really nice stuff where they're essentially just LED TVs. You turn it on, and it's really just one channel. It's just fire channel, and it has just a screen, right? You can make the flames go bigger or smaller. You can make them blue. You can make them orange. You can make this beautiful fireplace and this custom. fireplace mantle around it. Okay. So we have a mantle with the fireplace. You have the TV mounted on the wall right above it. So naturally your bed goes right here and then you have a space here. Here's where your recliner goes, right? So you can watch the TV. You can lay in bed, watch TV. You can sit by the fireplace. And then again, there's plenty of room for side tables. Here's your closet here. You have a five foot closet. And then this is where we do a built-in dresser. And then window is here and there's actually like a countertop or a butcher block across between those two. That way, again, it's solving this problem of where does mom put all her knickknacks, all her pictures, all her trinkets, right? We don't necessarily want them bringing in all this big, heavy furniture that they have. It would be better if they just left that somewhere. So we are solving some of these things, built in dresser, because she needs somewhere to put her socks and her underwear and things like that. Right. And then you have this table. She can put all of her knickknacks and pictures of grandkids and all that kind of stuff. Right. Her bed's naturally going to go here because that's straight across from the fireplace. And then this is naturally the space where you would put a chair. So we've redesigned everything to solve all these problems, but also to be completely custom. Right. So it's can lights in here and then a semi flush chandelier above the bed. So let's talk bathrooms next. Kind of the same intention. So full bath here. And I want to say it's. It's eight feet wide here. And then I want to say it's eight and a half feet wide the other way. So full shower here, roll in. This is compliant for ADA. Toilet and then vanity. Vanities are floating for ADA's purposes. So when you have a floating vanity, now you lose the ability to have all those cabinets below it. So in this nook right here, here is a three-pole drawer where she can put all of her bathroom toiletries and stuff like that. All right. So it's lower, right? It's the same as you'd have in like a kitchen. And then you have a countertop with a little piece of quartz above that. So now there's a countertop where you can put all of her other knickknacks and towels and things like that that she wants. And then there's floating shelves above that. So we're giving her a place to put everything that she's going to need, a place. We're specifically designing those to solve the problems of where are all these things going. This is a pocket door here. And again, because it's in their own private room and there's none of these are shared rooms, this door really never gets closed. This is just going to stay in the wall open. And again, she will do her thing and it's in her home bedroom. So that is not an issue. We don't have to deal with door swing and that kind of stuff by adding this as a pocket door. Let's see. That is about it. We pretty much solved everything that we see practically as an operator. As a builder myself and as Shannon with 20 plus years of experience taking care of people and doing dementia care, there's a number of different things that are common problems to the building and what that looks like. So we've taken the time. We've spent six figures plus. working with custom architects and engineers to design and take away all these problems. Not working with your typical assisted living architect who's just going to go give you this like small box plans. They all look cookie cutter the same. So we work with someone's specialty to design and work off this building to have this boutique hotel style building.

There, this is Brett Schott-Cavis with Platinum Assisted Living Mentoring, and we are talking about building new construction right now. What do we do? How do we do it? How do we make it work?

And how do we solve the problems of assisted living? There are so many issues with the physical building in this industry. You have these big boxes, right, that are just these big, ugly monstrosities that either look like a hospital or look like a hotel.

Then you have these residential style homes where they convert a garage and they have a step down or a slope and It's just not practical. You can't fit people with wheelchairs. So if we're going to build new construction, 16 bed, platinum assisted living, what does that look like? Because there are so many of these 16 beds that are getting built, but they just look like small facilities.

And we've talked about the different problems that they have with the long, ugly hallways, and it just feels like a hospital or hotel. So how do we want to do this? If we want to rethink this, we want to redesign this whole thing and solve the problems of them. what an assisted living is and looks like, if we want to make it more like designed after a boutique hotel or a mansion of a building or a neighborhood of mansions, how do we do that? So let me show you what we're doing and we'll just go through this.

We'll talk about exterior, we'll talk about the interior, and then we'll look at a virtual building here. So here is our site plan for our property. So we're building a neighborhood.

of mansions here. So four mansions, they're about 10,000 square feet. They're all 16 bed license homes. And we have about 7.6 acres here. And you see the roads up here and we have our own private street.

So I want it to come in. You turn on this street through this big, beautiful gate, big gate over here. You have this private driveway essentially, and it's your own private street for this little custom neighborhood of mansions.

And each building will look slightly different. They'll have different roofs, different coloring. They'll have different pop-outs. They'll have different textures, stones, siding, things like that, right?

So it looks like it's all built by the same developer, but it looks like they're definitely unique, separate buildings. So that's what we have here, right? Here's our four buildings.

So let's talk about some of these exterior problems that we solved. We do not want it to look like a facility. We don't want it to look like a small box, right? Which is a big box just done in the 16th, right? It's a small box.

So, salt boxes, they have usually two of them next door to each other, right? You have your memory care one, your assisted living one, and they're like, they're real close together, right? They might have just a little breezeway between them, but that's not a neighborhood or a street or a house or a mansion, right?

You have to have space between the houses. So, we have 50 feet of space between our homes here, right? So, each building is at least 50 feet away from the other one. So, it almost seems like… It almost is like based on the seven acres here, each property has like their own one acre lot.

They're not subdivided, but it almost has that feeling, that impression because everyone has their own front yard. They have their own driveway. So I have this U-shaped driveway for each of these.

And the drivers are 20 feet wide. That way you can park all along the side and then you can have people still drive past those cars. So everyone's going to have their own mailbox in front, right?

They have their own driveway. They have their own front yard. Then there's gates between them, right? Because houses between your next door neighbors, you have a gate, right?

You have a fence. You're separating your property from there. So that's what it looks like. You're driving down this road.

This is a big tree. You're driving down this road and it looks like there's just four huge mansions here. Like who built this huge neighborhood of mansions? So that's kind of the impression, right?

And we have, each of these has their own driveway and then it goes back around the side here. So all our staff parking is in the back. So We're avoiding the red curb.

Talk to the fire marshal. Find out how wide of a road we need to be able to avoid that red curb. Have all the staff parking in the back.

We have a front yard. We have a back yard. We have a mailbox. We have an actual next door neighbor, right? And they just happen to be more assisted living homes.

But it actually feels like a next door neighbor because of the fence and because they're 50 feet away. If it was 15 feet away, if you could almost jump from building to building or you have like a breezeway between them, you know, that's really not the vibe that we're going for here. So...

We were able to do all of that and then make it feel like its own little custom neighborhood. I have this about 100 feet here. This is all greenbelt, big pavilion. We'll have gardens built in here around the trees and little sitting areas. This huge green space here, and then this is the tree line, these black dots, and here's where our retention pond and fire tank and well and that kind of stuff are down there.

We've created this neighborhood here, this mansion-style assisting...... a 16 bed neighborhood, right? So we've solved these problems of how do I make it not look like a small box facility where they're just crammed next to each other with a parking lot in front, the red curb, and it just feels like a school or some kind of commercial facility. So that's what we got going on.

Let's talk about how we solve some problems with the inside. Let's switch over here and do a new screen share. And let's look, let's look at our building plans. All right.

So here's our building. Again, it's about 10,000 square feet. It's 16 bedrooms.

Everyone has their own private full bathroom. And then there's also a half bath up here at the front. So let me just walk you through and talk about the common problems that there are when building a new construction assisted living and how we solve those problems.

So let me just orient you real quick. So front porch is here. Front door is here.

I have eight bedrooms on this side, and then I have eight bedrooms in a row down this way. Okay. Now, again, when you have these small boxes, these new construction 16 bed that are really just a big box facility made small. Again, you walk up and you don't really know what it is, right? So again, we have a huge front porch.

I want to say this is like 45 feet, something like that. Huge front porch right here. And it's vaulted.

The actual front porch, this part here, this is vaulted here. And then it carries that vault line into the home. So the vault line kind of transitions about right here as you get into the great room.

But this foyer is also vaulted and there's big, beautiful chandeliers you'd come in. So that you have, as you're walking through, you have this kind of like this V-shaped or triangle-shaped vault going all the way through into this beautiful grand foyer. Now, what you do not see when you open the front door is you do not see a nurse's station. You don't see that office window with the call buttons and the screens and the red lights and all that kind of stuff that just screams hospital, right?

What you see is all the way to the back of the house. I don't want to say it's about 50 feet or so, but you'll see, and I'll show you the virtual mock-up of this. This is all glass wall. This is actually like 13 feet high of double layered, big windows, 13 feet high.

And this room is vaulted ceilings right here where this line is, it's about 18 feet high. And then it lowers back down to the side wall, the exterior wall, about 13 feet high. So this huge glass wall, this is all glass.

And then this is all glass right here. I'll show you what that looks like in a few minutes here. But as you walk through the front door right here, a beautiful vaulted foyer with a chandelier, and then you're looking all the way back down.

So there's the dining room on this area, the living room on this side. So you're going to see the couches. You're going to see the tables.

You're going to see people living, doing life with a huge glass wall behind them, right? This custom boutique style hotel. So you're solving this problem. If you walk in, now I feel like I'm in a hospital. You walk in, it's just like, ew.

I don't want to be here, right? So that's one of the things that we did. We opened the first impression of the front door.

The other thing that homes usually have is an open kitchen, right? People want to have that sense of home with this big open kitchen. Now, a lot of commercial facilities, small boxes, they will close off their kitchen and they kind of put it back in the corner there and residents can't really get there. Now there is a practical use to that, right?

You don't want people with memory care to walk through the kitchen and that's reasonable. But you're losing that interaction, that sense of being in a real home, of seeing the chef, chit-chatting with the chef, talking to them, getting the smells, seeing that. So here's our kitchen here. So let me zoom in on this.

Okay, so here's our kitchen here. Now here's the door to the kitchen. This is a solid wall up to here.

And then this is seven feet of an island or a flat countertop space. This is where we do our plating. Right?

So that means when they're here at the dinner table or they're sitting here watching TV, they can look in and they can see the chef, they can see the plating, they can see what's going on. Okay? This area right here.

Here is also, this is all lowers, this whole area here, because there's no wall. This whole L, upside down L, is lowers with no wall. And then you see this little ridge here. This is a little like six inch pop-up. where the quartz goes up over and gives a little lip.

That way people are not reaching in, they're not grabbing into the sink and getting into that area, right? You physically couldn't get your arm over and down enough into that. So it's preventing people from getting in there, grabbing knives, getting in the sink, doing things like that, right? If you have memory care. But everywhere you are, you're hearing, you're seeing, you're smelling, you have this whole great room right here where everyone's hanging out.

Or over here in the secondary sitting room where you're able to see and watch and just feel like this is a home. It doesn't feel like a facility, right? You've taken the practical measures to keep people out, but now you've given the impression, the visual, the smells, the ability to chit-chat with the chef, to just roll up and be behind the bar and chit-chat with the chef as they're cooking.

So, that's another thing that we did to solve this problem of this commercial kitchen style feel. Okay? The next important thing is assisted livings, they feel just dark. They feel closed off.

They feel scary. They feel sterile. They feel like a facility, right?

So you want this indoor, outdoor living. You want this like lots of natural light. So that's what we talked about here. We took, again, this whole thing, I want to say it's like 40 feet or so.

All glass wall and then over here all glass wall. So you have this huge vaulted area here all glass the same with over here This is all glass wall. So let me just transition right now We'll show you what this looks like from the outside and then we'll we'll come back and we'll keep going Let's see.

Let's change our screen here. Let's go over to let's go here Okay, so here's our building now. We're able to kind of spin around and see what's going on here So front porch is here.

So we have two bedrooms here and a few more bedrooms here. So let's turn it this way. So here's where our bedrooms are on this side.

Here is our great room under here. And then we have this area here. This is eight more bedrooms on this side. Okay.

So let's spin around. So we have, we talked about this front door impression, right? You come through this big, beautiful front door here and you can look all the way back.

So we'll spin you around. Now we talked about how high this is. This is 13 feet, right? So you have these plates, these pieces of glass are massive. They're about the same size as like a sliding glass door.

They're like six and a half feet high, like four feet wide. These are massive windows and there's another header above it and then another half size of a massive window, right? So look at all of this. It's huge.

This is the dining room in this area here and the great room is here. So if we spin you like this, you literally have two sides. of huge glass walls, right? So as you're coming from the front, you walk in the front door, and that's what you're seeing.

You see all the way across. You see this huge, big, vaulted, grand custom mansion or small hotel kind of feel. So that is there.

We've created this indoor-outdoor space, right? And again, it's not a parking lot behind you. It's not staff parking behind you.

There's a fence back here at the end of the property to back up the backyard and behind the fences for the staff parks. But this is a backyard. There's literally grass and trees and you have a real backyard here. So from the great room, this is where you're hanging out.

You're spending most of your time, right? You have all glass walls right here. Here's an exterior door.

And then our patio is here. And this is our garden right here. So we're having a big bamboo garden here. So this is going to be our garden room.

So I'll show you here from the second, when we go back to the next screen. But Part of our hallway here is this garden room and you have this huge glass wall. I want to say it's maybe 25 feet long where you're looking out into the garden and the backyard.

And then from this side, this is the other hallway. Look at this. I want to say it's about 40 feet long of all glass wall right there.

So let me switch you back and we'll break this down a little bit. Okay, so one of the things here we are solving is this idea of these long hallways. You go to assisted livings and you have the bedrooms on both sides.

It's just like room number, room number, room number, room number, long, scary, ugly looking hallway, looks and feels like death. It smells horrible. So I want to solve a couple things.

I don't want to have it look either like a hospital or like a hotel. I want it to look like this custom boutique style hotel. And then I also want to solve the problem of walking long spaces, having this long intimidating hallway as you get back to your room.

So let's look at what we did here. So we have here's common area. And then here is technically our hallway.

You could say, you know, if perhaps even starts here, but it really doesn't. So instead of having this long hallway here, what we did is we pop this room out. So here's, this is all six feet wide. Now this is 12 feet wide.

So essentially we created another space. This is our garden room here, right? And we showed you from the exterior, this is all glass wall. Okay.

Cause this, this ceiling is 10 feet high. So this huge glass wall here, and you're looking out, this is our bamboo garden. And then here's our tables where people are sitting out and having a patio kind of a picnics and lunches and stuff.

So now you go from a common area. to another common area, right? You're going to have couches right here. You have a beautiful chandelier. You have a little side tables.

You can sit there. You can read. You can just have a little bit of alone time, right?

So you're taking away this long hallway because really you go from common area to another common area. And now you only have this tiny little hallway. Right. So I'm taking away the long walks.

I'm taking away also that, that idea where you have this just boom, boom, boom, boom, just doors and, and, and on both sides, right? There is a little bit here, but this is realistically only like 25 feet. There's not a lot of that.

So let's talk about the other side. The other side. Okay.

Here's common area here. So now we have eight rooms in a row and you might think, wow, you have this. crazy long hallway. If you're going to have eight on one side and it's, see, it's not wrapping around like the other side. So let's, let's break this down here.

So two things we want to stop, right? We want to stop the really long hallway. And then we also want to stop this idea of having rooms on both sides that looks like a hospital or a hotel.

So same kind of thing, right? We have four bedrooms right here, two bedrooms here, and then two more. So we pop this out. So this one, we actually pop this room out 13 feet and an extra foot longer, and then framed out this little spot here and here, and then built in custom bookshelves here. So chandelier here.

Now this is our library room, right? So we have a couple of high back chairs sitting here and here. You have the big bookshelf wall.

I want to say it's like 15, 16 feet, the whole bookshelf wall, right? Wide. And then it's tall.

It's like eight feet tall. So you now have another space, right? So you have your great room here. You have...

a secondary sitting room here, which we'll come back to. We have this garden room here, and now we have the library room here. So we have four separate spaces for mom or grandma or grandpa to have their own time. Now, you see, here's our great room. This is our big fireplace wall, right?

Fireplace in the middle, bookshelf on both sides of it, TV above the fireplace, huge vaulted ceiling, 18 feet high here, big elaborate fireplace. Then you have six foot opening on this side, six foot opening on this side. So if your room is number one over here, you can cut this way, right?

And now you have really no hallway to go down, just a few, like 15 feet. Not a big problem, right? You can get to any of these rooms without walking down a long hallway because there's entrance on both sides now.

Now, if you have to go down here, you're really going from common area to now another common area, not the hallway. You're going to the library room, right? It's got its own chandelier. It's got its own vibe.

You could sit there, right? So now this is, again, not a hallway because now you went from common room, great room to library. And now there's just the tiniest little bit.

There's only like 15 feet. Even if you're the last bedroom, you'd only have a hallway technically of 15 feet, which is just this space right here. So I took away the idea of having them on both sides where you feel like you're at a hotel or a hospital. And I made it this custom.

boutique style hotel in design. Now, the other thing we haven't talked about, and you saw it on the 360, this whole thing from right here, all the way down, this is all glass wall. So you're sitting here in the library with your book or your coffee, and you're looking out the backyard, not a parking lot, right? You cannot see cars.

It's fenced in. It's your own huge multiple acre backyard. So let's see.

Now let's talk about the idea of common spaces, right? We have the big great room here. This is the big area where everyone's hanging out.

But we also have this secondary area, right? So you have some love seats, some chairs, some recliners. And again, you have this big glass wall here. So we have a lot of deer around this area. So we can throw deer corn out in the front.

And the grandmas just love sitting at the big glass windows because they just sit there and they watch the deer. We throw the corn, the deer come right up to the porch. So that's one of their favorite things. They watch the cars go by.

They watch whatever's going on. They watch the deer. And that is a secondary space for people to hang out. You could have activities here. Now, a lot of times daughter will come visit.

She wants like a private area, right? Her and mom just want to have a little private area, get away from everybody. Now that gives them this opportunity.

Now you have another two other spots now, right? You have the little garden room here and that's a beautiful place to sit. You have the view of the garden here and then you have a library, right?

You have the cute chairs. You can... grab a book or a newspaper and just sit there and chit chat with mom and daughter.

And you've really solved a lot of these problems. Now let's talk about what else. Laundry is always an issue, right?

The bigger the facility, the bigger the issue with laundry, because now you have one huge commercial laundry thing with these huge laundromats. And, you know, you have, everything's getting mixed up. You don't, you get to memory care and it's like, oh, she doesn't know if that's her sweater or that's her sweater.

Like. Who knows what's going on here? So what we did to solve this problem is we added two laundry rooms.

So we have a natural space for it anyways. So here's our hallway. At the end, we have a laundry room here. Let me zoom.

So here's laundry. So they're not stackable. They're just one set with a butcher block above it and then sink here.

So now you have laundry here and this one laundry room is only serving eight people, right? Because you have this side of the house, this side's going to this laundry room. And then over here at the end of this hallway, here's another laundry room, same exact setup.

That is only serving these eight bedrooms. So now if you have something, you have socks, you have a sweater, something is like, oh, I don't know who this is, right? You only have eight people. instead of like a big box where you might have a hundred beds and it's like, I don't know who this is. Well, you know, that's when you get complaints from family from losing all their clothes.

So we solved the problem with the laundry rooms. Now let's talk about bedrooms, right? Here's what we did for bedrooms.

Cause most times, best case scenario, you get a nice room that just looks like a hotel room there. You know, it, it, it, that's usually the most common thing. There's no character to it.

There's nothing, there's nothing custom to it. So that's not what we are, right? We, as a Platinum Assisted Living, we've designed a building like a boutique hotel. So we put in a little custom detail. So here's what we did.

And we've kind of set everything up for us in a specific size and place so that we're encouraging people to put their furniture exactly where we designed it to go. Let me write that down a little bit more. So here's bedrooms.

So they are good size bedrooms. Let's see. All right.

So we have 27 feet across and... Eight and five. So 13, 13 feet wide.

All right. So you have this five foot hallway here. That way that that's for ADA. Now bedroom is set right here. Okay.

You have, we did a custom accent wall and it's the same at Platinum Mesa. Custom accent wall on every bedroom, right? That's done there.

And then, so you put, you naturally, you're going to put your bed right here on this wall because across from it is a fireplace. So you have not a real working wood-burning fireplace, and that doesn't even make heat. A lot of these, it's a mantle, and then you have a pop-in electric fireplace inside of it. It literally does not even have to have heat.

They make them really nice stuff where they're essentially just LED TVs. You turn it on, and it's really just one channel. It's just fire channel, and it has just a screen, right? You can make the flames go bigger or smaller. You can make them blue.

You can make them orange. You can make this beautiful fireplace and this custom. fireplace mantle around it.

Okay. So we have a mantle with the fireplace. You have the TV mounted on the wall right above it. So naturally your bed goes right here and then you have a space here. Here's where your recliner goes, right?

So you can watch the TV. You can lay in bed, watch TV. You can sit by the fireplace. And then again, there's plenty of room for side tables. Here's your closet here.

You have a five foot closet. And then this is where we do a built-in dresser. And then window is here and there's actually like a countertop or a butcher block across between those two. That way, again, it's solving this problem of where does mom put all her knickknacks, all her pictures, all her trinkets, right?

We don't necessarily want them bringing in all this big, heavy furniture that they have. It would be better if they just left that somewhere. So we are solving some of these things, built in dresser, because she needs somewhere to put her socks and her underwear and things like that.

Right. And then you have this table. She can put all of her knickknacks and pictures of grandkids and all that kind of stuff. Right. Her bed's naturally going to go here because that's straight across from the fireplace.

And then this is naturally the space where you would put a chair. So we've redesigned everything to solve all these problems, but also to be completely custom. Right.

So it's can lights in here and then a semi flush chandelier above the bed. So let's talk bathrooms next. Kind of the same intention. So full bath here.

And I want to say it's. It's eight feet wide here. And then I want to say it's eight and a half feet wide the other way.

So full shower here, roll in. This is compliant for ADA. Toilet and then vanity.

Vanities are floating for ADA's purposes. So when you have a floating vanity, now you lose the ability to have all those cabinets below it. So in this nook right here, here is a three-pole drawer where she can put all of her bathroom toiletries and stuff like that. All right. So it's lower, right?

It's the same as you'd have in like a kitchen. And then you have a countertop with a little piece of quartz above that. So now there's a countertop where you can put all of her other knickknacks and towels and things like that that she wants.

And then there's floating shelves above that. So we're giving her a place to put everything that she's going to need, a place. We're specifically designing those to solve the problems of where are all these things going.

This is a pocket door here. And again, because it's in their own private room and there's none of these are shared rooms, this door really never gets closed. This is just going to stay in the wall open.

And again, she will do her thing and it's in her home bedroom. So that is not an issue. We don't have to deal with door swing and that kind of stuff by adding this as a pocket door. Let's see. That is about it.

We pretty much solved everything that we see practically as an operator. As a builder myself and as Shannon with 20 plus years of experience taking care of people and doing dementia care, there's a number of different things that are common problems to the building and what that looks like. So we've taken the time.

We've spent six figures plus. working with custom architects and engineers to design and take away all these problems. Not working with your typical assisted living architect who's just going to go give you this like small box plans. They all look cookie cutter the same. So we work with someone's specialty to design and work off this building to have this boutique hotel style building.

Transcript for:Lesson 3 - Reimagining New Construction

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Lesson 3 - Reimagining New Construction