Once we have all your design needs and house details squared away the team will prepare your masterplan in 3-5 weeks.

We typically are booked out around two months into the future.  (We'll let you know how far out the team is currently booked when we have our intro zoom call.)  Apply to schedule yours right now - and that timing will determine when the Masterplan will be ready.  

If you are feeling SUPER ready to go, don't despair.  You won't be sitting around waiting in the interim.  We begin collaborating on your design needs through Pinterest boards, workbooks and data gathering just as soon as you sign your contract!

Where ever you are in your timing, now is probably a good time to reach out and get the ball rolling.     

Architects get paid for their services in a lot of different ways.  Some charge by the hour, others ask a percentage of the construction budget.  Some break down the project into phases and have a different plan for each part. 

We want to make sure that regular home owners like you feel comfortable asking for some design help with out feeling like they're writing a blank check.  That's why we charge a flat fee for the Mid-Century Master Plan Package.  This lets you know that our design advice has nothing to do with taking cut of the added size or scale and that we'll be designing with your needs and budget at the the front of our mind.

Yes!  We break the masterplan package fee into three payments.  

Make your first payment of $1000 when you accept your Master Plan Proposal and sign our design agreement.  Then the rest of the fee is due in two parts at our Design Kickoff and Design Workshop meetings!

Our Mid-Century Master Plan package take you through an entire schematic design process step by step. Explore your options and Clarify your vision. And it all comes for a fixed fee so you know exactly what you’re getting into from the start.

Here’s how it works.

YOUR DESIGN “HOMEWORK” …. THE PRE-DESIGN DETAILS

The process starts with a little homework for you. Don’t worry! We provide easy to follow forms and coach you through gathering all the information we’ll need about your house. 

You can tell us what matters most to you about the way you want to live in your house. Share your ideal home!

We need documentation of what’s going on with your house now – plans, photos and other background info about our jumping off point.

And we establish YOUR mid-century style.

We wrap up this phase with a meeting - our Kickoff Design Meeting - to go over all the details together and firm up the areas of the house we'll be tackling for you in our designs.  

MID-CENTURY SOLUTIONS GALORE

Next, we take the reigns. Our Mid Mod Midwest team will come up with multiple options for each part of the house that you have said is important to you.

Our  team spends time designing solutions for your social spaces, your private spaces (like an owner’s suite)and any other areas you identified as priorities.

We think about how your bedrooms and bathrooms flow together, how social spaces seem separate or connected, how a basement den might flow up and connect to the upper house or out into the yard if it’s a daylight basement. And definitely how the spaces around the house, your outdoor rooms connect to the inside spaces for that great mid-century modern flow between inside and out!

We present our ideas about what’s possible for your home to you in what we call a Mid-Century Solutions Package, filled with multiples of three options for all of those different spaces.

Plus, we assemble a Style Guide for you – sharing examples design ideas for different areas and the materials you might choose for your house. 

PULL IT ALL TOGETHER INTO A PACKAGE!

Then, we meet again - the Design Workshop Meeting  to figure out which of the multiples of three options work best for you.

Finally, we pull together a set of schematic drawings, which includes perspective sketches and plans that you can use to visualize and demonstrate what you want to do in your house to the contractors who will help you make it all happen.

You'll get three documents from Mid Mod Midwest a that make up your completed Mid-Century Master Plan.

Before our Design Workshop meeting, we'll share your Mid-Century Solutions package and Style Guide.  

The Mid-Century Solutions Package is our summary of design research to date and illustrations of proposed design elements will be documented in a pdf booklet.  It will included sketched floor plans, perspectives and lots of notes to show you the different scheme options we think might meet your needs in each part of the house that needs an update.  

The Style Guide is a collection of ideas for how you'll keep the right mid-century flavor alive in your remodel.  It will help you name your mid-century style, set finish themes throughout the house and includes dozens of idea sheets chosen to augment the designs sketched in your Solutions Package.  Plus a set of material suggestions that fit well with each other - and your existing home - for each of the major design areas.  

After we've met to determine  which elements of the Solutions Package work best for you we'll tweak and pull together your set of Final Schematic Drawings that represent your plan to update the house - all at once, or during multiple phases.  

The Final Schematic Drawings show the final schematic floor plan -sketched to scale - and updated perspective or detail views from the Mid-Century Solutions package that further illustrate your plans.  You can use this to clearly communicate what you want to a General Contractor, to a collection of collaborating sub=contractors, or to remind yourself what you've decided as you carry out the work yourself!

Our Mid-Century Master Plan package helps you bridge that crucial gap between, “hey, I think I want to remodel, what do I do next?” and confident calls to contractors to get quotes and start scheduling. Our master plan process includes a clear scope of work for a fixed fee, so you don’t have to worry about hidden costs or how many hours it takes or what you’ll get out of it. 

In a lot of cases, a master plan is all that’s needed to connect with a competent contractor, share your vision and make your remodel happen. But sometimes, folks need a little something more.

That is where additional services come in!

Once we’ve completed the fixed-fee Master Plan service, we’re still available to help by creating sketches, answering the this or that questions that come up and/or exploring additional design areas for an hourly fee.  

Want to know more? Check out this podcast episode where Della shares examples of how we've continued to assist clients after the Master Plan Package has been completed.  

Schedule a 60 Minute consult call if you need help gaming out the design for a smaller area.  We can help you plan a front door update, manage an interior upgrade or visualize what new windows might look like on your home, then consult with you as needed to carry forward with your project!

If your project is bigger than a breadbox (design consultation call) but smaller than a Master Plan, apply anyway and let us know.  We can apply the Master Plan process to see how our fee can be adjusted to reflect the scope of your design needs!