Our Team
With over 50 years of combined experience in design, building and healthcare, we help transform your home so that it accommodates your unique lifestyle — without compromising style.
Our Mission:
To help you live a longer and healthier life.
BlueZoneHome is the GTA’s premier universal design, thrive-in-place home modification and design-build construction firm. We know people cherish independence. We know that a longer and healthier life at home begins with planning and preparation. We are passionate about providing superior solutions delivered with the highest levels of customer service and care. We help people extend their independence, safely and comfortably.
WE’RE PROACTIVE
We help to proactively address the reality of aging and avoiding the pitfalls of presuming today’s home will serve tomorrow’s needs. We help clients avoid the ‘first fall’ – that can lead to catastrophic consequences. We know, understand and are committed to leading edge universal innovation and design with respect to accessible, user-friendly home design.
WE VALUE YOU
We value long-term relationships built on trust and a shared goal of achieving a longer and healthier life at home. We are a partner with our clients and a provider of services, well-being and confidence over the remainder of their lives.
WE HELP YOU STAY WHERE YOU WANT
We don’t believe in the status quo; we aggressively dispute the inevitability of having to move to non-independent living. We help our clients stay where there want to, for as long as possible.
We are a group of passionate professionals dedicated to helping you live life on your terms
FOUNDER / CEO
Gavin Robinson
Gavin’s personal experience mirrors the experience of many of our clients’; he has navigated the long-term care facility process with both parents and grandparents, he has undertaken empty nester home renovations and until recently, had given very little thought to how life over the coming decades would unfold. The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic highlighted for he and his wife the importance of proactive preparedness for the future.
Building on a lifetime interest in construction and design and a thirty-five year professional career of project design and management, Gavin made a career shift from helping organizations manage corporate culture, to helping people navigate the multi-faceted aspects of planning and preparing for many more years in their own home.
Gavin’s efforts and commitment to the space include completing numerous certifications; CAPS (certified age in place specialist), CLIPP (certified living in place professional), SHSS (senior home safety specialist), and ECHM (Executive Certificate of Home Modernization – University of Southern California).
Head of Construction
Zoltan Ruppert
Trained as an Interior Designer in his native Hungary, Zoltan arrived in Canada in 2000 and immediately set about establishing a reputation for quality, integrity and customer service in the field of design and home renovation – clients love him! Over the past twenty years, Zoltan and his crew have left a trail of satisfied clients and top-notch jobs across the GTA, Ontario and into the USA. Projects range from fine-detail finishing touches to full-scale new builds –regardless of size, Zoltan approaches every project with a keen eye to how it will be professionally managed and most importantly, fully completed. When the finished product is handed over to you, the only thing left to do is enjoy – guaranteed!
Insights and Assessment
Margot McWhirter
At BlueZoneHome we consider Margot the special sauce to what we do – our value add starts with her expertise. Margot is passionate about the connection between housing and healthcare, and the impact that both have on your quality of life. She is committed to helping older adults age confidently at home - be it a house, condominium, apartment, or alternative residence.
Margot is a Registered Occupational Therapist, with a Masters' Degree in Gerontology and certificates in Universal Design and Patient Navigation. She has over 25 years' experience providing geriatric care, services, and advice - working as a clinician, an educator/trainer, and as an accessibility and aging-in-place consultant.
Margot is a member in good standing of the:
- College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (COTO)
- Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT)
- World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT)
- Home Modification Occupational Therapy Alliance (HMOTA)
- She is also a former member of the Canadian Standards Association's B-651 Technical Committee on Accessibility for the Built Environment.
SmartHome Solutions Consultant
David Guy
Building on a lifetime interest in construction and design and a thirty-five year professional career of project design and management, Gavin made a career shift from helping organizations manage corporate culture, to helping people navigate the multi-faceted aspects of planning and preparing for many more years in their own home.
Reverse Mortgage Specialist
Christopher ‘Biff’ Norris
Biff has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, including a long career as an institutional bond salesman at major Canadian and U.S financial institutions. He held senior roles leading up to a Managing Director - Fixed Income Sales at BMO Capital Markets. Following BMO, he was a partner at Cornerstone Capital and following its sale to Gravitas Financial, was an investment committee member on the money management platform responsible for fixed income strategy. He is a licensed agent specializing in Reverse Mortgages at North Power Mortgages providing independent advice focused on astutely unlocking passive wealth.
Director Of
Marketing
Nick Dumitru
Nick has been singularly focused on helping business owners quickly achieve exponential growth in a wide variety of industries for over 15 years.
Featured as an expert in Inc. Magazine, The Globe & Mail, IT World Canada and CBC Radio Canada, he has a unique ability to see gaps, spot opportunities, uncover hidden profits and develop strategic campaigns with concrete results which are scalable and measurable.
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Live a longer and healthier life in your own home. Let's talk about how we can make that happen!