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Plan a happy remodel! Match your expectations to your energy.

23 min readThis year, I’m going to encourage you to focus on starting where you are, setting realistic goals, and making progress at your own pace.

Welcome to 2025 and a fresh start for planning your mid-century remodel! Let’s agree to make this year all about matching your energy to your expectations.

This year, I’m going to encourage you to focus on starting where you are, setting realistic goals, and making progress at your own pace.

You’re probably asking, “Della, where is all this tempered enthusiasm coming from?” And given my usual levels of untempered enthusiasm for remodeling, that is a reasonable question.  Thanks for asking. 

I do have a (sort of ) new source of inspiration! My favorite laziness expert with helpful big sister energy, Kendra Adachi, wrote a book about planning. And it’s fabulous! In fact, I was just rereading it (for myself). 

While I highly recommend the book, today I want to focus on just one idea that applies really well to remodel planning: matching your plans to the energy you have.  

Dreaming big is fun, but your remodel plans need to match the energy and resources you have available right now. Not a week from now or a month from now or a year from now. 

Here’s how to set yourself up for success:

1. Start Small if You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

If life is chaotic, now might not be the season for a major remodel. That’s okay! Use this time to plan for future projects. Dream, gather ideas, and outline priorities so you’re ready to take action when your energy aligns with your goals.

2. Avoid the Pinterest Perfection Trap

Spending hours scrolling through social media can set you up for disappointment if your real home doesn’t match those curated images. Instead, focus on what you love about those spaces—like natural light, bold colors, or vintage vibes—and find ways to incorporate those elements into your home.

3. Plan for the Long Game

Even if a big remodel isn’t in the cards right now, having a clear plan can save you time, money, and stress down the line. My Master Plan Method is designed to help you organize your ideas and make thoughtful, efficient decisions.

4. Adjust Your Expectations

Every remodel requires time, energy, and decision-making. By being realistic about what you can accomplish, you’ll avoid burnout and ensure the process feels manageable and rewarding.

Quick Design tip…to focus your energy where it counts

As you’re planning a remodel, it’s easy to get swept up in Instagram-perfect images and lofty goals.

Take a step back and ask yourself: What’s the best use of my energy right now? Maybe this isn’t the year for a full kitchen overhaul, but you can still improve your space. 

Try a quick Level One update:

  • Paint a wall in a color you love.
  • Add stylish new hardware to cabinets.
  • Rearrange furniture for better flow.

Small, focused updates can transform your space without overwhelming your schedule or budget.

Mid Mod House Feature of the Week

Lazy Susan Refrigerators

One of the coolest (pun intended) mid-century kitchen innovations by far: the Lazy Susan refrigerator. These revolving-shelf fridges, introduced in the late 1940s by GE, made it easy to access every item without losing food to the back of the shelf.

While modern refrigerators have moved on to more minimalist designs, these quirky, workhorse appliances still hold a special place in many mid-century hearts.

Today, vintage appliance restorers are bringing these classics back to life, making them a charming option for anyone looking to add authenticity to their kitchen.

Check out their work!

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Della Hansmann 

The best way to be absolutely satisfied with your home improvement project is to have realistic expectations for what it could be and how much work, time and energy and money it’s going to take. Now this isn’t me telling you not to dream big.

Della Hansmann 

In fact, the more you dream and the more you plan, the better off you’ll be, but I do think that a lot of people can set themselves up for non-success by focusing on the wrong things and looking at other people’s finished projects in magazines and on Instagram, rather than matching their expectations with the energy that they’re prepared to give right now.

Della Hansmann 

So this episode, let’s talk about how to have the right expectations for your energy now and to have a great remodeling experience in 2025 or beyond. Hey there. Welcome back to mid mod remodel. This is the show about updating MCM homes, helping you match a mid-century home to your modern life. I’m your host, Della Hansmann, architect and mid-century ranch enthusiast.

Della Hansmann 

You’re listening to Episode 2001 before we get into how to greet this year with the right kind of remodeled dreaming energy, aka the kind that will move you forward and not make you set up big dreams that will cause you to unconsciously avoid them based on a fear of them being too much and then feel like a failure at the end of the year for not tearing them through. I’ve got a couple of things to put on your radar. First, in case you are harnessing some new year, new start make it happen energy.

Della Hansmann 

Turn your attention to your kitchen. Start dreaming and discovering your house your kitchen needs for more on how to do those two things effectively. Check out episode 806 or just get yourself enrolled in the ready to remodel program. For most guidance, why start with the kitchen?

Della Hansmann 

Well, several reasons. First, it’s the center of most people’s homes. It gathers us together. It provides us with warmth, metaphorical and literal, food, sustenance, and a place where no one is in their own personal space. Everyone is together. A kitchen remodel also contains the most complicated combined design, scale, finish and priority elements. So if you can plan a kitchen remodel, you can plan a remodel of anything.

Della Hansmann 

And most pressingly, we are holding a live mid-century kitchen clinic workshop again this year. It’ll be in early February. So I want you to be prepared. That said, the entire point of today’s episode is that you may not have energy available right now for a big remodel, like an entire kitchen overhaul, and that’s okay.

Della Hansmann 

So if 2025 feels like it’s coming at you like a freight train, then don’t worry about planning a kitchen remodel. Just keep on listening. If your energy is more like Della, I want you and your team to hold my hand, ask me leading questions, guide me through, gathering the right information to design from, and then prepare options for how I can turn the house I have into the home I’ve been dreaming of for way too long, and hand them to me.

Della Hansmann 

Then you might be in a master plan frame of mind, even though it sounds like for you, ease is more efficient than urgency, you’ll still want to get the ball rolling. So reach out soon to get yourself into our winter design queue. I promise you do not have to have all your ducks in a row before you reach out. Lining up the ducks is part of the master plan process. You just need to know you have ducks.

Della Hansmann 

And then fill out the friendly little form hiding behind the apply to work with us button on our website. We’ll take it from there. So Happy New Year. Welcome to 2025 I want to talk to you this episode. Well, really about the book that’s been saving my life lately. It’s not a book about architecture, about mid-century homes, about remodeling. It’s a book about planning and an antidote, or a counter argument, to the household productivity culture that we live in and among, and certainly I feel very in as a small business owner.

Della Hansmann 

But if you’re looking for books specifically on mid-century design, or on remodeling, or on your home’s history, then I have so many recommendations for you, and they all live in my mid-century ranch resources list, which you can grab for yourself at mid mod, midbus.com/resources, by the way, if you have signed up for that list in the past and you’re hoping to get an updated version, if you Put your email address in to the opt in form after you’ve done it once, you won’t get a whole new list, because our system isn’t smart enough to do that for you.

Della Hansmann 

We do update the list, however, on a regular basis. So if you gathered it years ago, you might want a fresh version. Every time we refresh the list, we send an updated copy out to everyone who has received it in the past. You can check your inbox and use the search term mid-century ranch resources list to find when you received it last. Or, you know what?

Della Hansmann 

I’ll put a link directly to the PDF of that list into the text of today’s podcast email if you’re not on our email list at all well, and this is the perfect time to go get signed up. As always, you’ll find show notes with links to the references I’m going to make a transcript of the episode and so much more on my website at mid mod midwest.com/ 2001 wow. 2001 we are in season 20.

Della Hansmann 

I have been delivering the mid mod remodel podcast to you for five years now, and I remember thinking I had probably said nearly everything I had. To say in that very first season, which was just seven episodes, if I recall correctly, apparently, I am never done talking about how to mid mod remodel in the right way for you and for your home. So check out the show notes for links and the transcript at mid mod midwest.com/ 2001.

Della Hansmann 

Okay, so I said I was going to tell you about the book that is saving my life right now, and it is Kendra Adachi new book, The plan, manage your time like a lazy genius. I have this in mind as a perfect New Year’s episode, and you’ll soon see why I thought I would sort of overview the whole book in one shot today.

Della Hansmann 

But actually, I’ve been finding so much absolute life planning, and to my mind, I always turn everything that I read about life planning into remodel planning gold in this book that I think I’m actually going to home in on only one of her excellent recommendations today, one point she makes, and then maybe come back to more of them. Throughout the season, I have raved about Kendra’s books and her podcast, the lazy genius in the past.

Della Hansmann 

And actually, as I Google, I see that her name comes up in the transcript of 10 of my previous episodes. So yeah, I’m a real big fan. But if you want a quick overview on who she is and how she thinks, I recommend my new year kickoff post from two years ago, highlighting her then most recent book, The lazy genius kitchen. In that book, Adachi lays out a system for creating a kitchen that has and does everything you need.

Della Hansmann 

The lazy genius kitchen isn’t a book about remodeling a kitchen, nor is it a book about organizing a kitchen, or a cookbook or a lifestyle guide about kitchens. It’s kind of all of those things, and perhaps better than any of them could be on their own. Adachi’s advice is to think about the way you want to live in your home, and if you know me at all, this is absolutely what I believe about every project in architecture, where every remodel should begin.

Della Hansmann 

So let’s talk about how you can be a lazy genius about your kitchen and about your whole remodeling life. It is, by the way, a great read for anyone who’s planning on updating their kitchen and for anyone who isn’t because its principles and its step by step guide for tackling kitchen issues large and small can be well applied to a remodeling process or could perhaps substitute for a remodel certainly help you live more happily in your space before taking on a bigger model. For my episode on the lazy genius kitchen, check out.

Della Hansmann 

Mid mod, midwest.com/ 1101. 1101, Episode 1101, or just go get the book and read it. You won’t regret it. Now, Adachi’s latest book takes her kind Big Sister energy and directs it at the productivity industrial complex. So for anyone who’s ever felt like a failure and quit on their planner, this book is for you, for anyone who’s ever wandered the isles of Barnes and Noble back in the late 90s, thinking about if the perfect planner only existed, and maybe you could make one up. And then got so excited when bullet journaling arrived about 10 years ago.

Della Hansmann 

This book is for you, and if you feel like your life is too busy and too chaotic to be jammed into the pages of some dumb planner. This book is also for you. She has a new take on the question of how to arrange and motivate your life, one that will feel both fresh and refreshing and also probably deeply familiar to anyone in her podcast world or any ready to remodel listener, really, to be perfectly honest, I wasn’t rereading the plan for you for this podcast, I was rereading it. For me.

Della Hansmann 

This book only came out in August maybe, and I’m already on my first reread in its entirety, because it’s New Years, and I’m busy right now with a lot of clients who are excited to get into their projects ASAP, and things have been slowed down by holiday rest and reset times. So we’ve got a lot on in January, and I wanted to come back and approach this year with the best possible spirit, so that I can keep creating amazing, mindful, careful, responsive solutions to people’s design challenges, and not just get into the habit of setting up dominoes and knocking them down.

Della Hansmann 

So I was rereading the plan for myself, but while I did, I was overwhelmed with thoughts that I wanted to borrow from Kendra reparse, turn into remodel, planning thoughts and share with you. And the very first one, the best one for right now, is that we need to match our expectations for the energy we have available in any given moment.

Della Hansmann 

This is true on every level. I think the example she gives in the book is when you watch an athlete perform at the Olympics, and then you decide you’re going to start a total body fitness project in order to look exactly like that person in the next six weeks, maybe six months. It’s unrealistic, and it’s doomed to fail, but this is something I experience so much in the home remodeling space and do encounter even from clients who are wise enough to come directly to Mid Mod Midwest if you aim for greatness, if you look entirely to the future before trying to be where you are.

Della Hansmann 

This is certainly a feature of the sort of the productivity industrial complex. It’s all about having a 10 year plan, which is where you need to be in five years to get to your 10 year plan, and where do you need to be next year to. Get to your five year plan, and how do you break that down into quarters and the step by step, perfect, ideal day you can live.

Della Hansmann 

But I think people get lost in this concept of where they want to be and forget to start where they are. For those of us who are planning to update, upgrade a mid-century home into a dream home, we always want to start with the house, the life we actually have. This is absolutely what goes wrong if you spend too much time on Pinterest and Instagram. It’s an endless disappointment cycle when you spend all of your ideas, looking for house ideas online and gathering a big, big Pinterest board.

Della Hansmann 

This is so easy to do. You think you’re planning, you’re gathering ideas, you’re getting creative, but if you spend too much time steeping yourself in the perfect vision of someone else’s dream home, particularly the kind that’s been curated for a magazine with all of the extra furniture and clutter pulled out of the shot, this sets you up for disappointment, and if you end up looking at a particular image from a magazine or on social media that feels Like your dream house, but also very different from your actual house.

Della Hansmann 

It’s so easy to get locked into disappointment, to feel like you can’t ever have that. But this is contrary to the principles of the style guide, because when you look at the elements of a beautiful house on social media, you can think about it instead of its totality, its dollar cost, its zip code in California, and you can think about what are the qualities of that space.

Della Hansmann 

What makes you light up for it the most? Is it the big windows? Is it natural light? Is it an elevated ceiling, a flowing floor plan? Maybe you just like the color of the upholstery and the furniture. I personally am such a huge sucker for the color yellow. You know this about me, and if I see yellow furnishings in a picture of a mid-century space, or, oh my gosh, absolutely, if I see yellow painted built ins or a yellow accent wall in a mid-century house, that’s my favorite mid-century house, right there, regardless of how the space flows or how it works for the people that live in it on a daily basis.

Della Hansmann 

So it’s important to think about starting from reality and moving forward. This is the, maybe the core concept for me out of Kendra’s book, the plan. And she has a lot of different component pieces of advice, mindset shifts, strategies and ways to think about what you’re trying to get done that will help you to achieve those goals.

Della Hansmann 

But again, today, I want to focus on one specific thing she said in the book. I think she only talks about it for a few pages, but the idea of matching your expectations with the energy that you have to give. I’m not even talking about budget right here.

Della Hansmann 

Dollars are one thing. It’s important to try to be realistic and match your dreams to the budget you have available, or to think about how to get scrappy with your budget and use it most effectively. But budgeting is a topic for another episode. I’m actually just talking about energy, because there’s a lot of energy involved in setting up and planning and executing a great remodel. If you’ve never taken on a remodel before, you might not even have any idea how much it could possibly take.

Della Hansmann 

This makes me think of a lovely conversation I just had this week with a potential client. They live in my neighborhood, if you’re listening Hi. I hope we get to work together. But what makes me particularly happy for this couple, regardless of whether they decide to move ahead with a master plan or not at this time, is that they have a really good sense of what it would be like to be involved in her remodel.

Della Hansmann 

They’ve lived in their house for six years, and they know it intimately. They know what works and what doesn’t, how it’s good enough for their daily rhythms, but it doesn’t really encourage them to host. It doesn’t have space for more than their family. And they also know how it goes to DIY projects, because when they moved in, they did a number of small and medium DIY projects, and then they also managed some multiple subcontractor projects through a bathroom renovation and a few more pieces.

Della Hansmann 

This fills me with so much calm and satisfaction when we talk about the next steps of the house. I know that they have a strong idea of what kind of energy might be involved in a home improvement project, in managing it, in living with a drywall dust, but also in making the decisions that are necessary to go into it.

Della Hansmann 

And in fact, that’s part of what brought them to me. They don’t quite have enough energy to innovate all of those solutions for themselves right now and feel confident that they’ve weighed all of their options and looked into every possibility, and that’s bringing them to a master plan process.

Della Hansmann 

If I can help get them over that energy hump, provide them with options and show them what’s possible, then they can choose among them and make plans for the project that is going to perfectly fit their energy and then match it to their expectations. They will be able to accurately match their expectations with their energy that they have they’re willing to devote to this project this year. Hooray.

Della Hansmann 

On the topic of, what if you don’t have enough energy, if you don’t have enough energy right now to take on a big remodel project this year, then you need to adjust your expectation. Maybe this isn’t the season. If you don’t have time to think about. Big plans, to ponder the possibility of your house and to start calling up contractors and scheduling walkthroughs for pricing.

Della Hansmann 

This might not be the year that you get that big remodel project done, and that’s okay if you’re not feeling big remodel energy in your life right now, if you don’t have a whole lot of available free time right now, it doesn’t mean that you won’t be taking on a big remodel project in the future. Now is not forever.

Della Hansmann 

This is another excellent piece of Kendra Adachi advice, and I will want you to think about it this way. It might be important to think about this being the year when you slowly, gradually plan for a remodel you’ll have the energy to take on in a future year, you could start to plan now and carry it out next year or just be ready have a plan in your back pocket for when your energy opens up again. It might be when your kids get a little older. It might be when something changes in your work life. It might be when you have slightly different friend energy and support.

Della Hansmann 

But just because you’re not making the move right now doesn’t mean you can’t make it in the future. And also, here’s what I always want everyone to remember, particularly now in January, in this big New Year’s energy where we have such a tendency to make big resolutions that then fall flat. If you make a big resolution to change your house this year, but you don’t make a plan for how that’s going to happen. It probably won’t.

Della Hansmann 

But just because you’re not necessarily going to take on a huge whole house remodel. It doesn’t mean you can’t improve your life. You can still improve a space in your house. You can improve your kitchen, for example, even if you don’t do a gut remodel or even or even a medium sized project, you can still make improvements to the spaces you live in.

Della Hansmann 

If I’m thinking about kitchens, I did a great episode quite a while ago. I think it would be episode 508 on quick improvements you can make to your kitchen right now, and you can always apply the Level One improvement concept to any part of your house. Find a new piece of furniture, do a weekend project to paint a wall of color you love.

Della Hansmann 

You can have transformation that matches your energy. It just might be smaller if your energy is smaller. It’s interesting that in this very same chapter where Adachi talks about matching your energy to your expectation and vice versa, she also talks about starting small, making small adjustments, and reminding yourself that now is not forever.

Della Hansmann 

And then she caveats that by saying sometimes you do have to plan ahead in life, and she plans for retirement, and one of the things she’s planning ahead on is a bathroom remodel she plans to love for decades to come. There is inherently an aspect to throwing your eye to the horizon looking ahead with a long view if you want to make a change to your house, and certainly, I’m a big believer in planning a big picture for your remodel, even if you’re going to start small with a few spaces so you don’t end up painting yourself into a corner, preventing yourself from doing more exciting projects later, because you did a smaller project first, that precludes them.

Della Hansmann 

But what I want you to do today is focus your eyes as far out as you can, adjust your expectations to match that gaze, how far you can think, and the time and the energy you have to think about the future can happen now, or can happen when you have more energy for them. I will say this, if you have limited time and energy, but you really, really want to make some changes to your home, your best bet is to follow the steps of the master plan method.

Della Hansmann 

Because one of the reasons I created the mid-century Master Plan method was to help people be as efficient as possible with both their time and their energy spent planning rather than grinding your years constantly searching for quote ideas, unquote on Instagram and Pinterest, and as I’ve discussed above, Sometimes just giving yourself unreasonable expectations and then setting yourself up for disappointment. Instead, you can think about how to use the style guide to quickly focus your preferences.

Della Hansmann 

You can think about the discovery process to get exactly the information about your house that you need. And you can follow my step by step method for dreaming about your home remodel in a way that is both open ended and deeply practical, because we all have limited amounts of time and energy, and I want you to use yours as efficiently as possible once you’ve gathered that pre design information, well, you or I can pull together options, can draft possibilities for you to consider so that you can make great plans for your home.

Della Hansmann 

If there’s one thing to take away from this episode, it’s that while we live in a culture of New Year’s resolutions and big starts, actually, I think this has been changing slightly over the last few years, and I love that. But still, we all have this urge to begin fresh and be an entirely new and better self this year, to achieve all the goals that fell by the wayside last year. I want you to be kind to yourself and realize that this might be the year to make improvements and it might not, and if it is the year to make big changes to your house, you don’t have to plan them alone.

Della Hansmann 

I’m here. I would love to help you make that happen, and I very much hope the mid modern model podcast will continue to be a resource you can use to gauge ow to match your expectations to the energy that you have, and to help you find a little more energy and enthusiasm for the prospect of making improvements to your mid-century home.

Della Hansmann 

Okay, so here is our vintage house feature of the week. I want to talk to you about lazy susan refrigerators. Now, of course, there were a bunch of candy colored mid-century refrigerators in every shape and rounded corner size. But particularly, I am always fired up by the kind of refrigerator that has a lazy susan built right into it, or, as my beloved godmother, Susan would ask me to say, an efficient Susan.

Della Hansmann 

And they were efficient, sturdy, practical, no more shoving things to the back of the refrigerator and losing track of them no matter how empty or full your fridge is. I’ve been staring down some vintage kitchen ads, and in particular I think, I think that this might have been the first year, but I’m not going to stand by that.

Della Hansmann 

In 1948 GE announced a revolving shelf refrigerator. Their ad says new revolving shelves put all the foods at their fingertips. And they actually also advertise that it is a separate freezer and refrigerator, which, if you are looking at Vintage fridges a lot of the time, like I am, you’ll notice that a lot of time the freezer is just a cooler box inside the refrigerator compartment. In this case, it’s an actual two door. It has an upper, teensy, tiny freezer and a lower, larger refrigerator cabinet with two drawers at the bottom, vegetable crispers, of course, and two, no, three, four, rotating Susan shelves. Actually, I think the top one maybe doesn’t rotate.

Della Hansmann 

This is the kind where it looks like lazy Susan. It’s a half round, and it has a center post at the front of the refrigerator. So when you rotate them around, the sort of curving shelves actually stick out of the footprint of the refrigerator a few years later, or rather, I guess, a few decades later, 1963 they had a similar GE model that had pull out rotating drawers so it had now a bottom freezer, separate unit, two drawers and the kind of rounded edged shelves that hinge from one side.

Della Hansmann 

Now, in both of these cases, I’ve heard people say, Oh, they must not be sturdy. They can’t be strong. These are actually adjustable. And I’ve seen modern refitting people run ads where they’re putting 20 pound weights on these shelves. They were sturdy. In fact, my grandfather had a lazy susan fridge. Well, I suppose probably he thought of it as my grandmother’s, but when they upgraded the appliance to one that could defrost itself in the late 80s, he kept the Lazy Susan part of the fridge and put it into a radio cabinet in their living room. This maybe tells you a little bit of something about my inability to let go of old potential, old junk that might potentially be useful for something.

Della Hansmann 

He kept VHS tapes on it, which was not a perfect fit, although, actually, I think you could put a lot of Pyrex bowls and Tupperware containers onto those edges of the rounded refrigerator, and if they slid in, they slid in. This is kind of a personal topic, because I’m currently obsessed with vintage refrigerators.

Della Hansmann 

My home came with a replacement set, probably from the early 2000s of white fridge and range. They’re boxy, they function. They’re boring as heck. I didn’t replace them at the time because I just bought a house, and so my budget was limited, and also I was planning to remodel my kitchen, but wasn’t going to do it right away, so I thought I would build in new appliances with the plan for the new kitchen, and then I never did that because I fell in love with my vintage mid-century kitchen and its wooden cabinet doors.

Della Hansmann 

I still dance around the idea of changing the layout, but it’s not going to happen at the expense of those original cabinets. Let me promise you that. Promise you that. But I’ve started to dream of just replacing the refrigerator, because my fridge is so loud and so boring and honestly, for one person, too big in the pandemic. When I was first trying to keep my folks out of all contact with other humans, I was picking up their groceries for them, and I would literally, I moved the shelves around it. I would literally, would literally just put several full grocery bags right into my refrigerator, and then keep using it for myself with no loss. I could get away with a smaller fridge.

Della Hansmann 

And so sometimes I think I should get a modern, vintage looking one that is tall and narrow, the kind you always see advertised in Airbnb postings that are so charming, but really, I’m drawn to the vintage if I think about modern appliances, counter depth, refrigerator is what I often recommend for clients. My little sister, when she remodeled her house, got a fun two door, three drawer unit that has a drawer for drinks and replaceable color panels and all the bells and whistles.

Della Hansmann 

But my heart beats for these refurbished vintage appliance I see old single door models pop up on Facebook marketplace for under $500 and I always wonder, could I live like that? Could I just have a chest freezer in the mud room and call it good? I am kind of a freezer food girl. I like frozen vegetables as an easy meal prep. Ticket, but popping around the corner to pick them up doesn’t seem too challenging to me. And then, of course, there are always the appliance restoration Instagram accounts.

Della Hansmann 

Do you follow these? Because if you don’t, you should. Here in the Midwest, we’ve got the antique appliance underscore restorations account. This is dusty old stuff. Is their website, dusty old stuff.com, and they refurbish and refinish and get working beautifully again, gorgeous old vintage appliances. They are so fun, and I love watching these pieces come to life. They recently worked on a refrigerator from 1938 and got it up and running again, and just everything they have is stunning and beautiful and so so pretty.

Della Hansmann 

And then out on the West Coast there’s vintage 55 restorations, which does similar work. They just take these beautiful old pieces and make them absolutely shine again, and powder coat them in the colors of your choice and the appropriate colors of way back when, and it’s just so, so so fun. I think there’s just, there’s nothing not to love about this kind of vintage appliance.

Della Hansmann 

They were built to last, they’re chunky, and they have smaller interiors than a lot of modern refrigerators, so they might not be the right choice if you are a once a week shopper at a family of five, but they really have some charm, plus they also have fantastic names. I’m just scrolling through the Instagram account right now and looking at a product called the food-arama. The food-arama, oh, my god, I love it so much.

Della Hansmann 

So yeah, if you are curious, I will put links to these Instagram accounts on my website. I will also link to one of my favorite mid-century homeowner accounts, which is fire 11 cat and actually her home is not a mid-century home. It’s a new build made to look charmingly mid-century, but it has a lot of authentically vintage stuff in it, including her mid-century fridge. She once made a reel demonstrating how she defrosts it herself and how it doesn’t feel like too much trouble. Needless to say, I’m thinking about it.

Della Hansmann 

If you have an opinion on having a mid-century vintage refrigerator, let me know. Would you? Could you have you? I’m so curious.

Della Hansmann 

Circling back on our topic of how to match your energy to your expectations if you’re dreaming of a big remodel in the next couple of years, but actually you’ve only got energy to ask a few questions. Maybe we should get started by just having a little consultation call. You can always have a call with me anytime by going to our website mid mod midwest.com/call, and you can put yourself right onto my schedule for a paid consultation 30 minutes might open up possibilities.

Della Hansmann 

Answer questions put a fear to rest. People often take me on a little walking tour of the house using their zoom camera on their phone and show me what is going on and ask me questions about what seems practical, or how to choose a finish that’s going to work with what they already have, or how to deal with a puzzling question they got asked by a contractor when they were getting bids for an upcoming project.

Della Hansmann 

Whatever’s on your mind, I’d love to chat with you about it and make your life feel a little easier. Help your energy rise to meet your expectations. This year, you can find the transcript of this episode links to the resources I’ve mentioned, including those Instagram accounts and some pictures I’ll link to the vintage ads for the GE Lazy Susan refrigerators as well at mid mod midwest.com/ 2001, that is 2001.

Della Hansmann 

And next week, we’ll be digging into a much requested topic, how to choose the right roof for your mid-century home. What are the pros and cons of different options, and what you should perhaps bundle in as a contracting project with a re-roofing project for best results, I often hope to batch out my episodes waiting to dance, but this week, I have not.

Della Hansmann 

So if you’ve got a pressing roof question on your mind, hit me on Instagram and the DMS in the next couple of days, and I’ll get answers to your question rolled into the next episode. See you then you.

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