Lifetime Home Survey

Any “house” can be a Lifetime Home—an efficient, universally livable home that adapts to you, your family and visitors throughout the decades. Think high performance and multi-generational, both energy and socially sustainable.

No matter the style, location or square footage, a Lifetime Home accommodates most people regardless of their age or abilities. Imagine whether a four year old could manage different areas and features of your home (e.g. open doors, turn on lights), or if you could easily accomplish most things whether seated or standing, like your activities of daily living. That’s the essence of a Lifetime Home, maximum “effort-less” moving about and living actively, conveniently, efficiently and safely. You’re in control, not your house. The house adapts to you not the vice versa of traditional design and construction.

We developed the Lifetime Home Survey (LTHS) to help you assess how well your entire property, inside and outside, measures in user friendliness, energy efficiency, comfort, security and social sustainability (i.e. remaining in the home as long as you choose). The LTHS includes the most recent best practices in building science, indoor air quality and Universal Design (“universal living” or better living design).

We update quarterly and announce revisions on our blog, fan page and weekly newsletter, The Current.

Click the respective links below to download in PDF. Notice the hyperlinks to sources and examples by mousing over or clicking underlined text of a different color/font.

The mini-2 pager is a high level overview, the full version covers every area of your property. You can also view examples at our Universal Design gallery.

Lifetime Home mini-Survey (LTHS) BuilderFish 1-7-13

Lifetime Home Survey (LTHS) BuilderFish 1-7-13

How does your home measure literally? Grab a tape measure and the LTHS, review your entire property and improve your home life!

Questions? Email me and, if asking about something specific on the LTHS, reference the line item and date of the survey so we’re on the same page.

Finally, click here to learn how the LTHS originated.