Tag: space planning

Mid-Century Bathroom (design) Advice

28 min readThis week it’s a bathroom remodel advice roundup to help ease your worries!

Planning the right update for a mid-century bathroom is about space planning and the right product picks, sure. But it’s also about your lifestyle, your morning routine and your five-year plan. 

I’ve had a lot of conversations with Master Plan clients and on consult calls recently that caused me to notice some recurring issues and questions, things that come up again and again for a lot of people, which makes me suspect that if you’ve got bath questions on the brain, you’ve had some of the same struggles.

So let’s talk through some of the most pressing issues you can nail down to create a good mid-century bath update for you and for your house and for your style. 

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You don’t need to keep a tub for resale value.

27 min readYou don’t need to keep a tub for resale value. In fact, about half of my clients don’t.

So much of the advice out there about home improvements is focused on the bottom line, treating your home as a commodity. 

And sure, remodeling always has a cost. There are financial factors involved. 

But I firmly believe that return on investment and resale value are the absolute last things you should be thinking about when you plan a change to your home. Hear me out. 

If you’re planning on selling your mid-century home soon, leave it alone. Don’t do anything to it. 

If you’re planning to stay, you are better off focusing on what will make the house your home.

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At Architect Office Hours: Mixed Era Houses, Fireplace Style Quandaries and Tackling Big Layout Changes

70 min readReady to Remodel students have the chance to get questions answered – live – every month during our Architect Office Hours. And once in a while, I open up the opportunity to a wider group!

Movies love to show architects creating away at a drafting table or sitting picturesquely at a cafe, sketchbook in hand. It’s romantic, this vision of a endlessly creative mind conjuring beautiful buildings from some eternal, internal well.  But *SPOILER ALERT* no one uses a drafting table anymore (except throwbacks and nostalgia lovers). In fact, I do all my sketching on a tablet.

There is another major element of architecture that is seldom shown in the movies…

An architect spends A LOT of time answering questions.

I answer questions emailed in by my clients almost daily. I answer questions from students in Ready to Remodel every month at office hours. I pick up a few queries from my instagram DMs every week.

And once in a while I hop into a zoom and hold an open office hours for anyone with a question. I held an open office hours just this week…and the questions were fabulous! So, I’m sharing it with you!

Want even more … here’s a snippet of one of my student only calls from several years ago!

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