The Next 20 Years Of Your Home — Designed For You.
First-floor primary suites, curbless showers, zero-step entries, wider doorways. Quiet upgrades for established neighborhoods like Botany Woods, Gower Estates, Parkins Mill, and Sugar Creek. Nothing that screams 'medical.'
Aging In Place · Highlands, NC
What this looks like in Highlands
About Highlands, NC. Highlands is a small Macon County town sitting at over 4,100 feet of elevation, the highest incorporated town east of the Mississippi and the centerpiece of the Highlands-Cashiers luxury mountain market. The year-round population is small, but the seasonal population multiplies several times over with second-home owners from Atlanta, Birmingham, and Florida.
What it means for aging in place. Macon County permitting and the Town of Highlands both apply depending on parcel, and the town's own watershed and steep-slope rules carry weight on hillside parcels above town. Construction season is genuinely short, and getting concrete, drywall, and finish materials up the mountain in winter is an operational consideration the budget needs to absorb. Common work is high-end custom retreats in clubs like Highlands Country Club and Cullasaja, deep luxury remodels of older mountain homes, and stone-and-timber outdoor-living additions.
Who You Are
You're 60 to 78, established in a Botany Woods, Gower Estates, or Parkins Mill home. House-rich, healthy now, planning ahead. You don't want a CCRC. You don't want to downsize. You want first-floor living, accessibility — without it looking like a hospital. And you definitely don't want to be displaced from your home for six months.
What You're Solving For
What Success Looks Like
Three outcomes that actually matter. Not features. Not corporate-speak.
Stay in this home — comfortably, not stubbornly
First-floor primary suite conversion or addition. Curbless showers, wider halls, zero-step entries. Quiet upgrades that keep your home yours, not a clinical setting.
Accessibility without the look of accessibility
Beautiful tile in oversized walk-in showers. Designer hardware on lever-style handles. Lighting and finishes that read as 'recently remodeled' — not 'modified for safety.'
Don't move me out for six months
Schedule and dust-control to keep you in your home as much as practical. Same crew throughout. Named project manager. We hire people, not faceless companies.
Services For You
How We Build For This.
Every BHR service applied specifically to your situation — not generic offerings rebadged.
Resources
Read Before You Build.
Specific guides for your situation — published on the BHR blog or on the way.
Aging-in-Place Remodels in Greenville: 7 Upgrades That Don't Look Clinical
Adding a Main-Floor Primary Suite to a Botany Woods or Parkins Mill Home
Curbless Showers, Wider Halls, and Other Quiet Upgrades for the Next 20 Years
Why BHR For You
The Specific Reasons This Lands With You.
USMC-founded, fully licensed — security and trustworthiness matter when you're letting a crew into your home for months at a time.
Same-crew-throughout commitment. One named project manager. You hire people, and you should know their names.
Services for this in Highlands
How we build for aging in place in Highlands, NC
Let's Talk About Your Project
Free Consult.
Specifically For Aging In Place.
We come to you (or we meet at our 101 N Main office in downtown Greenville). Walk the situation, talk scope and budget tier honestly, and rough in next steps before any contract.
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