Fort Lauderdale interior design, anchored by built work in Broward County

About HH Designers and our work in Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is one of the places where our Florida portfolio is literally built. Fort Lauderdale Health & Rehab — a 100,000-square-foot healthcare and post-acute facility completed in 2024 — sits in the city itself, one of 19 projects HH Designers has completed across Florida. When we talk about designing for Broward County, we are describing work our team has already documented, specified, and seen through construction here.

Broward occupies its own position in South Florida — less theatrical than Miami, denser and faster than Palm Beach — with an economy built on the beachfront hospitality corridor, the marine industry around Port Everglades, a downtown that has added residential towers at remarkable speed, and one of the country’s largest concentrations of retirees and, with them, healthcare real estate. We design across all of it, and the statewide context is on our Florida page.

As with every HH Designers engagement, Fort Lauderdale projects run through a structured process — discovery, schematic design, photorealistic renderings, FF&E — and close with the Spec Book: the complete drawing, finish, and procurement package a Broward contractor can build from without ambiguity.

Healthcare & post-acute care in Broward County

Fort Lauderdale Health & Rehab is a fair summary of what post-acute design now requires. At 100,000 square feet, the building combines skilled care with medical office program and common areas that read as hospitality — because a short-stay rehabilitation patient is effectively a guest who did not choose the trip, and the family members touring on their behalf compare the lobby to a hotel, not to another nursing home. Therapy gyms positioned to make progress visible, dining that operates like a restaurant, resident corridors with real material warmth: these are census decisions as much as design decisions.

Our Broward-area healthcare work sits inside a larger Florida portfolio — twelve healthcare and senior living projects statewide, with Cascade Health & Rehabilitation in Delray Beach just north of the county line — and inside a national practice of 27+ skilled nursing and senior living projects. We document for AHCA plan review as a matter of routine, and we design for Florida operations: hurricane resiliency, infection control, and staffing-efficient layouts. Our rehabilitation and assisted living practices cover the approach in detail.

Hospitality & the beachfront market

The resort corridor along A1A, the restaurant rows of Las Olas Boulevard, and the marina economy around Port Everglades give Broward a hospitality market that runs year-round and renovates constantly. We design hotel and restaurant interiors for both sides of that cycle: new concepts that have to establish themselves against beachfront incumbents, and repositionings that lift a property’s rate without surrendering a season to construction.

Beachfront work in Fort Lauderdale carries the same technical obligations we engineer for across coastal Florida — salt air on hardware and metal finishes, UV degradation in west-facing rooms, humidity management at every indoor-outdoor threshold. Our specifications treat those as baseline conditions, which is why our coastal projects still look right five years after opening.

Multifamily & condominium interiors

Downtown Fort Lauderdale and Flagler Village have added residential towers at a pace few American downtowns match, and the leasing contest between them is fought on the amenity floors. We design lobbies, coworking lounges, fitness and wellness floors, pool decks, and model units as one coherent system — programmed against the building’s actual renter profile and specified with contract-grade FF&E built for year-round outdoor use.

Broward’s enormous existing condominium stock is meanwhile entering a forced renovation cycle. Florida’s post-Surfside milestone inspection and reserve requirements are pushing associations into capital projects, and boards increasingly pair the mandated structural work with long-deferred interior modernization — lobbies, corridors, amenity floors — so the building emerges from assessment season worth more, not just safer. We work well with associations: our renderings give boards something concrete to vote on, and our condominium design guide outlines how we phase interior work around occupied buildings.

Retail from Las Olas to the Galleria

Las Olas Boulevard remains one of Florida’s signature shopping streets, and the corridors from the Galleria eastward to the beach support everything from boutiques to design showrooms. Our retail practice designs customer journey, fixtures, lighting, and finish systems with tenant-improvement discipline — documented tightly enough to survive landlord review and a compressed build-out window, and durable enough for a trade area that shops year-round.

Jewish community institutions in Broward

Broward County holds one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, spread across Hollywood, Davie, Coral Springs, Weston, and Fort Lauderdale itself — and its institutions keep building: Chabad houses, synagogues, mikvahs, schools. HH Designers has designed more Chabad houses than any other interior design firm, with full fluency in the halachic requirements that govern Chabad house, synagogue, and mikvah design — aron kodesh placement, mechitzah sightlines, kosher kitchen separation, and mikvah construction requirements.

Community buildings in Broward tend to be ambitious and volunteer-governed at the same time, which is exactly the combination our community practice is built for: renderings that help boards and donors align, budgets held through documentation rather than hope, and phasing that lets a congregation occupy early stages while later ones are funded.