What You Will Learn
After Louie Delaware’s home was destroyed in the Marshall Wildfire on December 30th, 2021, it presented him the opportunity to design a Forever Living In Place Idea Home from the ground up. Now that Louie’s home is finished, join him as he continues his presentation from 2024 where he presents the challenges that he faced after the fire and what others may experience after a natural disaster, to creating the Living In Place Institute Idea Home with 6 well-known industry designers as their team, including two CMKBDs, and the key unique features that need to be included in every home to make it ready for all phases of one’s life. Designers can benefit from his experience in the building of the Idea Home, even doing a remodel.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of the Marshall Wildfire or any other natural disaster and how it may affect your clients.
- Creating and organizing the necessary team to build a Living In Place Idea Home.
- Learn the key designs that need to be included in every home for people of all stages in life.
- Show key products and how they were integrated into the completed Idea Home.
Featured Presenter
Louie Delaware
President & Owner,
Living In Place Institute, LLC
Louie is passionate about helping people make their homes as safe as possible. His knack for being able to describe home safety issues in easy-to-understand terms comes after 22 years in the field of advanced research and development for medical and analytical devices. He has been awarded many different patents and received the prestigious international R&D 100 award for Advanced Technologies. In 2004, he founded US Safety Pros, LLC, which specializes in childproofing, radon testing and mitigation, home accessibility, and many other home safety services.
A licensed general contractor, Louie has childproofed more than 3,000 homes and helped countless others mitigate radon, improve family safety, and makes homes easier to negotiate and use for older adults and physically challenged individuals. A father of two children, Louie has first-hand experience when it comes to what works (and what doesn’t) in home safety. He also has older parents who have lived in the same home for nearly 60 years.
Louie is a sought-after safety expert for TV news and radio programs, along with many newspapers (including USA Today®), where he is known as The Home Safety Guru®. Louie lives outside of picturesque Boulder, Colorado with his wife, two kids, and their lightning-fast whippet racing dogs.
Louie holds the following certifications: Certified Living in Place Specialist™ (CLIPS), Advanced Certified Professional Childproofer® (ACPC), Radon Mitigation, Certified Aging in Place Specialist® (CAPS) and National Program for Playground Safety.
