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Who to Hire and When for an MCM Update (with Exactly Designs)

21 min readWhen is the right time to hire design help for your remodel? The right mix of experts at the right points in the process can transform your mid-century remodeling experience.

Elin Walters from Exactly Design is back to share her thoughts on who to call and when to make sure your remodel is a stunner. We talked about the experts you need on your remodel from the start and then dive into how the child of antiques dealers stumbled into mid mod interior design.

If you’re thinking about remodeling your mid-century home, the first step is finding the right people to help you. As much as we wish we could just call a contractor and say, “Let’s redo the kitchen,” the truth is, there’s more to it. The key to a successful remodel—especially when preserving mid-century charm—is assembling the right team before you dive into the project.

As a specialist in mid-century interiors and a mid-century loving architect, Elin and I agree that design should come first, followed by assembling the team that will bring that vision to life.

Why Design Comes First

Too many people start their remodel by calling a contractor and diving into the work before having a clear design vision. Elin and I have both been called into projects where homeowners are halfway through renovations, only to realize they need help making important design decisions. By this point, they’ve often missed crucial opportunities to plan thoughtfully, which can lead to rushed decisions, extra expenses, or even a loss of the mid-century details that make their homes special.

The best way to avoid these pitfalls? Start with design. Whether you’re working with an architect, an interior designer, or both, having a clear vision for your remodel will make it easier to choose the right materials, layouts, and finishes that stay true to the mid-century aesthetic.

You Must Assemble a Mid-Century-Savvy Team

Elin and I both know how important it is to work with people who get mid-century design. While a design-build firm might be a good option for some projects, not every team understands the specifics of mid-century homes. 

The bottom line is, your team should be made up of people who appreciate mid-century charm as much as you do and have the skills to help you achieve your vision. That might mean bringing in someone like me or Elin for the design work, then finding local contractors who can execute that design with care. And remember, even if your contractor isn’t initially a mid-century fan, they can still be an excellent partner if they’re open to learning and respecting the style.

Slow Down and Get It Right

One of the biggest pieces of advice we both give to homeowners is to take your time and make thoughtful decisions. It’s tempting to rush into a remodel because you’re excited to see the results, but slowing down can make all the difference. When you have a clear design and a team that understands the look you’re going for, you’ll have the chance to source unique, custom materials that fit the mid-century vibe—like those perfect handmade tiles from Fireclay, even if they take a few extra weeks to arrive.

Rushing through these early decisions often means defaulting to what’s readily available at the local hardware store, which might not fit the character of your home. Slow and steady ensures you’re making the best decisions for your home’s long-term beauty and function.

Build a Team of Mid-Century Design Experts

Your project is almost certainly going to involve more than one person. Whether it’s a designer, an architect, or a contractor you’re project will benefit from group of professionals who can work together and support your vision.

In many cases, that team won’t be “official.” Elin talked about how she works with several different people in an unofficial capacity to help her clients get the results they want. I do the same. I might design a home and hand off the plans to a contractor, making sure they have all the information they need to execute the vision. Communication is key—and it’s why assembling the right team from the start is so important.

The best way to get started on your mid-century remodel? It all begins with design. Get clear on what you want and make sure you have a designer who understands mid-century homes. From there, you can build out the rest of your team—people who care about your home’s history, know how to bring your vision to life, and respect the details that make mid-century homes so special.

Resources for Mid-Century Design

And you can always…

Read the Full Episode Transcript

Della Hansmann 

So you know you need someone to help you figure out your remodel. It’s not going to go well if you just call a contractor and say, let’s do the kitchen. But whose help Are you looking for? Exactly? Do you need a kitchen designer, a draftsman, an engineer, an architect, house inspector, an interior designer, a design build team. Who’s the first call you might actually tap a number of people from that list. Who you need depends on you and your project.

Della Hansmann 

Today, I’m talking with fellow MCM specialist, Elin Walters, of exactly design, about who exactly you might like to work with. The most important thing is to get that help, to find those people early in your process, because Elin and I have both gotten calls from people who are already deep into their remodel process, already working with a contractor with lots of choices locked in when they suddenly realize they need some mid-century expert design help.

Della Hansmann 

And the thing is, by that point, they’ve probably blown past so many milestones where they should have been thinking about design before doing sometimes we can jump in and salvage the situation. Sometimes we can provide point by point specific advice about how to solve the problems that have been created and get a project back on track without too much extra expense or too much of a loss of great mid-century features.

Della Hansmann 

But the truth is, you’re always better off if you build your remodel planning team completely out from the start. Listen. You know you’re right to love your home’s mid-century charm, and that’s why you’re listening to this podcast. Your Passion for Design for mid-century history can take you pretty far, especially if you’re willing to do research and help yourself out by gathering a team of people around you who also care about and are expert on your home.

Della Hansmann 

That’s exactly how Elin got started. She’ll share a little of her mid-century origin story today. So stay tuned. Hey there. Welcome back to mid modern model. This is the show about updating MCM homes, helping you imagine mid-century home to your modern life. I’m your host, Della Hansmann, architect and mid-century branch enthusiast. You’re listening to Episode 1813

Della Hansmann 

it’s October already. What I don’t actually understand what happened to the summer, but here we are, and a new month means a new architect Office Hours call. I am always excited about those for all my ready to remodel members listening in, submit your questions this weekend from Monday’s call. It’ll be at 6pm Central, just like always.

Della Hansmann 

And if you can’t make it live, send a more detailed question, because I won’t be able to ask you for follow up information, and I’ll get you your answer that you can watch on the replay, recording on your own time. If you are not a ready to remodel student yet. Now is a great time to join us. Ayla and I are going to talk today about how important it is to have a group of people around you who get your mid mod desire.

Della Hansmann 

Another way to describe that is a mid mod, remod squad, and that’s just what you get inside of ready to remodel. As soon as you enroll, you get access to all our evergreen resources, master planning lessons, guides and workbooks, plus workshops on kitchens, baths, additions and more, design guides and resources for every mid-century remodel situation.

Della Hansmann 

And you’ll get your invitation to ask a question and show up for this month’s and every month’s architect Office Hours call. Last time, we welcomed a bunch of new members on the call, and it was really fun to get their intros to their homes and see what cool new features make them unique, but also what common challenges they share with so many other home remodelers. Me included. If you want to know more, head to mid mod midwest.com/masterclass, and sign right up or find a link and anything else you might want to know in the show notes at mid mod, midwest.com/ 1813

Della Hansmann 

now here’s my chat with Elin.

Della Hansmann 

Too many people think when they want to make a change to their house, they open the phone book and call a contractor, but there are some steps you need to do first, some other people to talk to before you get to that stage, especially if you live in a mid-century home. Who are the people to assemble for your home update team in a mid-century house? And maybe what order you want to start those people, or at least know those people before you get into making actual changes to the house. I know you work all the time.

Elin Walters 

Yeah, it’s great to be here. I do that all the time. I’m an interior designer, but I work very closely with builders, contractors, architects, yeah, the full team, and I get people to who call, like, at all stages of the game, right? Like, we’re already working with a contractor and but we’re really realizing we need some selection help.

Elin Walters 

And I sort of grit my teeth a little bit like I wish you would have called me before, before you, you know, started to do the renovation, and now you’re in it, and you’re realizing that you need to make all these selections right now, versus had you called me before it happened. We talked about different builders. We talked about different architects. You know, I think, at least from my perspective as a designer, I feel like kind of the architecture and the interior design part should come first, right?

Elin Walters 

Because it’s kind of the visual, right? It’s the it’s, it’s, um, it’s thinking of all the ideas. It’s. About what it would look like in the end, and then you get to the contractor, because the contractor does the work, right? They don’t vision, necessarily and

Della Hansmann 

absolutely. And I occasionally, I same way. I’m more in the middle of the process. If we’re thinking of sort of contractor through the interior designer, architect, falls between them. But I think that I sometimes have clients come to me looking for a master plan who already have a relationship with a contractor that can work well, particularly and true.

Della Hansmann 

Recently, a couple with a gorgeous architect designed house in Indiana, and they’ve already done a couple of repair and replacement projects on it, and now they need to tax they need to tackle the owner suite and the kitchen so but they know that their contractor can replicate what is in their house, a major Wall System that curves, and so they’ve got, they’ve got cracked on hand.

Della Hansmann 

And I love it, right? I love for my clients to go to contractors with design drawings exactly that relationship, and check that they are signing on for this and they like the they can get on board with it, even if they might not be. At the moment, personal fans of mid-century. They can see and they can relate, and having the willingness right to maybe do it a little differently than they have, you

Elin Walters 

know, we’re not, we’re not specifying white subway tiles from Lowe’s necessarily dirty word, and maybe that’s what contractors are used to like. They want to be able to get the product in town very quickly. And you or I might want a very special custom made tile from fire clay tile in California, and we’re going to have to wait 12 weeks to get it. Yeah, this is when I try to tell people to slow down right get your people, get your vision and let’s do the process slowly and correctly. It doesn’t have to be doesn’t have to take forever, but correctly is going to help you make the right selections

Della Hansmann 

and maybe pre order those specialty products that have a longer lead time before Right, right, right, right. Yeah, I think that’s absolutely true. And I’ve had, I’ve had some interesting experiences with people who want to work with a design build firm, or who come to me because they contacted design build firms. And that’s, that’s actually not a bad scenario sometimes, but in general.

Elin Walters 

It makes sense, right? It makes sense to have that kind of all in house, but

Della Hansmann 

But that firm have an understanding of mid-century, and if they don’t, or mid-century house. You still need to start with exactly you and or someone like me to get to get the designer of whatever. And that designer might be an architect, they might be an interior designer.

Della Hansmann 

Or they might just be someone who’s worked there for a really long time and has some creative ideas, and that’s all good, but if they don’t have a previous understanding of mid-century, that’s not going to work. And also, it’s important for the homeowner to know the distinction between what an interior designer does, what an architect does, and what a design builder does. And there are other sort of their kitchen and bath specialists may or may not have formal training in either your field or mine, but they might still have something to bring.

Elin Walters 

Yeah. So I, you know, I in my own town. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and there’s several very well qualified design build firms. I wouldn’t say that any of them understand the mid-century aesthetic. And so I have found it as an interior designer, that I’ve had to build my team without it being official, right?

Elin Walters 

Like I get people who will call because they live in a mid-century home. They’re also interviewing these other design build firms, and I have to, like take it upon myself to say they might be great, but I also know an architect who understands mid-century.

Elin Walters 

I know a builder I’ve worked with forever who understands mid-century. Now we’re not an official team, but we are right, so I think we’ll be better suited than the design build who does everything, who doesn’t necessarily understand the specificity of this era.

Della Hansmann 

Exactly. And I think even in their training, the designer in house there might be an architect. They might be an interiors person. They might have a training from a kitchen, bathroom, right shop, but that doesn’t necessarily give you everything you could be getting if you assemble the right group of people who can, okay.

Elin Walters 

I mean, it’s enriched, right? Like we’re in a very specific esthetic, and to find your people who are really dialed in that way, I think, is really important.

Della Hansmann 

Yeah, absolutely. So. So I think that the bottom line really is that just to encourage anybody who’s thinking about making changes in their house to engage with design first, and then look at who’s going to make that design come to reality. And ideally, that gives you when you go to form a relationship with a contractor.

Della Hansmann 

And you more personally get to know you have people on hand that you can do a direct handoff with. For me much more often, because I’m working all over the place with people I don’t but my goal is to give people a package of information that’s going to give them really clear communication.

Elin Walters 

Right. In my situation, I work with people all over the country as well, and I say up front, like I I’m not going to be able to tell you which contractor to get, because I don’t live in your town, but finding contractors is not hard, and then I can communicate with the contractor. And have you know, we can do zoom, we can do whatever it is. It’s not hard to communicate so, but that communication is really important. So you can create that. You can create your team, even virtually. Yeah, very much. So yeah,

Della Hansmann 

And some of the best relationships I’ve actually had in in getting a project done have been handing off to what is ostensibly a design build firm with no mid tree, and then they have the craft, and they have the organization, and they can in another team. It’s the best scenario for me to see that

Elin Walters 

you found that they’re willing to do that? Because they do have a designer on staff? You know?

Della Hansmann 

In general, I can’t actually think of a really bad scenario. And I can think of a couple of really positive scenarios where actually, in one place, a small town, rural Indiana, different Indiana project, I don’t know. I’m constantly name checking Indiana, interesting. They had a lovely history of like doing craftsmen and Victorian homes. The folks they had on staff were really detail oriented.

Della Hansmann 

They never touched a mid-century house before, but they put together stunning built ins, green matched flat cabinets that made money in the past. Yeah, they were really invested in testing steam colors and making samples. And we did a screen wall custom surrounding the stair that was beautiful.

Della Hansmann 

And they did all these different mock ups, and they really just took the drawings we’d done and ran with them. And also we did a lot of back and forth communication of we tried these three mockups. Which one is it? The homeowner was a little antsy, and the contractors were like, We’re trying three things. Are these mid-century? And I would say, like, a little more.

Elin Walters 

Oh, that’s hilarious. Are these mid-century?

Della Hansmann 

It was so dear. But I think, I think all three of us, me as the designer, the homeowner and the builder team, what we’re just really happy with that relationship. And then right now, my little sister is remodeling her kitchen and bath with the local Madison, sort of big box design build firm, and I’m trying to stay hands off.

Della Hansmann 

But she got a design from me to start with, and she also just sort of like has somewhat of downloaded my obsessiveness with mid-century design, and he’s going to their interiors person and saying they came to her with a very standard HGTV option.

Della Hansmann 

And she was like, what about plywood cabinets? What if we did this dark stain? or what if we did it this way, you know? What if we made this a little more asymmetrical, what, you know? And so she sort of like, requested them into a very mid-century sign, and they’ve now coordinated it beautifully.

Della Hansmann 

So again, I think starting with that strong vision and then taking it to someone that has a comprehensive management skill is not a bad way if you don’t have somebody in your town.

Elin Walters 

As long as they’re willing, right, like, and they’re craft and they and they’re good at what they do, they can do, can do any esthetic, yeah, exactly, communication so much of the time, yeah?

Della Hansmann 

And that’s the thing, yeah, just being able, because as a homeowner, you may not have the terminology or the visuals to share what you’re what you’re hoping for. You might know what you want, but not be able to communicate it and the contract, yes, so

Elin Walters 

That’s what a rendering is for. Yeah, well, I just spell it out for you very clearly. This is what it looks like.

Della Hansmann 

So, yeah, start, start from design and then find a builder. Do not whatever sign not pick up the phone book and call AZ contractor right off your remodel.

Elin Walters 

How did I get into this? In a very circumvent kind of way? Um, got me just start talking.

Della Hansmann 

Yeah. So, okay, yeah. Now you run a design business focused on mid-century.

Elin Walters 

design business, yeah. So I, I’m, like the classic case of my parents were very creative, um, they were American folk art antique dealers my entire life. So I was traipsed around to these kind of high profile antiques shows in New York and elsewhere, and every antique store and every family vacation was going to antique stores and malls and right like that was I just was like a sponge of design and antiques and vintage and all of that. And then my dad bought this.

Elin Walters 

My parents divorced, and my dad bought this amazing kind of funky kind of like Beetlejuice meats, like atomic ranch, and it had all these really great elements. And he, although I grew up with American folk. Art in my house. He sort of diverged and started, it was all mid-century, and he had, you know, we had this, like, Wurlitzer Jukebox in the house.

Elin Walters 

So my dad is now introducing me to mid-century and 1950s and this was kind of when I was a teenager. So I go off to college, and I just said, I study psychology, and in the back of my mind, I’m like, Wow, maybe I should go to art school, but I don’t really, I’m not an artist. I’m not an artist. Like, I don’t, I don’t paint, I don’t sculpt. I appreciate all of it, but I just, I didn’t feel like that was my thing.

Elin Walters 

So I went through college and, you know, graduated, I got a master’s in education, and did all these various things, moved to Australia for a while, all these things, right? Had a career in international education, and then I hit my 40s and moved into a house built in 1958 it’s a, it’s a modest mid-century house. It’s not, it’s not mid-century modern. It doesn’t have great, you know, roof lines and but it’s got great bones, and we build an addition and made it more modern.

Elin Walters 

So in the process of doing this house and realizing that I lived in a 1950s house, and I had to, I needed to, you know, nod to that era, it all sort of started coming together. Like, oh, wait, I grew up in this house with my dad, and he had all these great furniture, and now I have an opportunity to do the same. And so that’s where it was sort of born. It was born out of owning the house.

Elin Walters 

And then I realized I sent a couple photos to atomic ranch, and I was like, I don’t know if you ever, like, you know, like, take or do any articles on, like normal people. They saw the work, and they’re like, what, what we want to do a full spread? And so it was thanks to atomic ranch. I’m like, wait a minute. Oh, wow, I think I could do this. So I sort of just jumped in and I was like, I feel like I could do this.

Elin Walters 

So I started my own business about seven years ago, and it’s been crazy since then. Yeah, that’s amazing. And it’s sort of like realizing that you like, I thought my parents had sort of nailed the art world, and how could I ever do what they do? And then what you realize is that you lived and breathed that as a child, and it was like you have this natural ability that maybe you should use, right?

Elin Walters 

So that was, I sort of came to my like, Aha. And life of, Oh, I’ve been trying to go down the wrong path and a career my whole life, and it’s been right here the whole time. So that’s how I am, that’s how I’m here doing what I’m doing.

Della Hansmann 

So again, the house really called it out of you. And back to that earlier connection, yeah.

Elin Walters 

And then sort of gave me the confidence to do what I always loved and should have done, which was something artistic, and never thought that that was my thing. And.

Della Hansmann 

I wonder. I don’t feel like I understood when I was young, when I was a kid, when I was going to college. And I don’t feel like I understood what you could do with a design degree. But I didn’t know anyone in design. I didn’t know any architects. And I feel like a lot when I finally got to graduate school in architecture, a lot of my classmates had family or friends who were architects around them.

Della Hansmann 

When they were they knew, they knew that there was a pathway. They knew that was a thing that they could do. But Right, right. Still, the drive, the sort of delight in the details of design is something that is in a lot of people, but it’s not in a lot of other people.

Elin Walters 

I know. I mean, I know you do too that I’ll come across into your designers who have gone through years and years and years of schooling, and they understand, they understand a lot of things I don’t understand, but they don’t get it. They don’t.

Elin Walters 

They don’t understand some of the basic like visual things that that come easily for me, although I, you know, I don’t, I can’t do a lot of the, you know, the building plans that they can do, but I find people to do it for me, right? Um, I think just sort of that innate ability can speak volumes that sometimes you don’t necessarily have to go get a degree, you know, and study it for 12 years to understand it. I guess, kind of where I’m where I’m coming from.

Della Hansmann 

I guess, I mean, it also makes sense that, I think people don’t understand that this is a career they can have, if so many people understand that this is a design, a part of their remodeling process that they need, right, right? The lack of appreciation, I think, in general, for design in America, kind of.

Elin Walters 

yeah, no, I agree with you, yeah.

Della Hansmann 

Which is sad. Maybe. I mean, this is our little mission to, like, get people excited about design. And absolutely, we’re finding some young people who are like, Yay, I want to do that when I grow up. And also, yeah, people in their 40s who are like, Yeah, I want to do that when I grow up.

Elin Walters 

Right? I know it’s never too late, never too late.

Della Hansmann 

Yeah, I, I also, I, you know, I have that. I have a degree. Because I knew I wanted to work in residential architecture. So I went to grad school in architecture. It was very important to me at that point. My interest was. More in sustainability, but it was very important to me to become a licensed architect, not because you actually needed to work in houses in most states.

Della Hansmann 

In Wisconsin, I don’t use my license ever, but I maintain it because it was really important to me to give that validation to sustainability work, the sort of slightly off normal recommendations I was making about materials, about layout, about choices, right, right?

Della Hansmann 

And then I found mid-century, because I bought a mid-century house, and I, you know, library, and all of us were like, I do for this cute little branch, like, how do I make good choices for this house? Interesting.

Elin Walters 

I think that’s the story for a lot of us that are in it. It’s like, oh, wait, I’m in the structure, and I need to treat it well.

Della Hansmann 

It’s special, I can tell, and I mean that in the most it’s the most builder basic 1950’s ranch you could imagine, but I could tell that it was not like other styles of houses I had interacted with, and I didn’t know what to do. So went researching, and what I found was that there was not enough advice out there about what’s the department’s entry house same so I started.

Elin Walters 

And now I live in this little this, it’s a neighborhood, and they’re all, there’s like, four different house plans, and they’re all ranches, right? And I have this, like, grand vision that I can walk around to everybody and introduce them to, you know, ways that they could make their house better, and then get this whole neighborhood, it’s got all these great additions and color schemes and right? That’s I would love to but not everybody’s on board.

Della Hansmann 

The urge. Right? The urge, I definitely watch, sometimes with approval, sometimes before, what people in my neighborhood are doing when they remodel. Yeah, have thought about like, sending people little postcards. Being like, your house is perfect, except your front door. Just like, Please, let’s take out the oval Victorian glass window, and then it’s all you need. Whenever you place the front door. Here’s a sketch.

Elin Walters 

Exactly. It’s so easy, like, and some people just don’t know, I would love to be like, here, here are four different color schemes. Do one of them, because this whole neighborhood will look great if you choose one of these.

Della Hansmann 

It’s the trick, I think, too for people who work in design, is that what by the time you see the dumpster out front? Yeah, it’s kind of too late, but we just watched with bated breath to see what’s going to happen on these houses.

Elin Walters 

I know hoping, yeah, fingers crossed. You know what you’re doing.

Della Hansmann 

But I think the best, the best way to help people is to help people that want to be helped. And those are the people who find us on Instagram, who are listening to this podcast episode, the people who are putting in search terms of mid-century remodel or bright mid-century kitchen choices or things like that and finding us. And we’re small.

Elin Walters 

We’re a small little group here. I mean, I feel like I can name the people, right that we all know each other, and we all just want to help you all out.

Della Hansmann 

And there are, there’s no reason to be grabby about it, because there are so many mid-century houses that need help more than we could do in all of the other.

Elin Walters 

will ever accomplish in our lifetime, right? So.

Della Hansmann 

So, I think you know, and part of we get to do is just make, make good advice and throw it into the ether, like we’re doing right now, and hopefully people are getting inspired or enthused or looking for the assistance that they need. Yeah, more great choices for every house in our personal neighborhoods.

Della Hansmann 

Yeah, personally, for our own joy and delight, but like also good choices for every mid-century house all over the place, across the country, yeah, cool.

Elin Walters 

Let’s save them all.

Della Hansmann 

Really. I mean, they’re really in my mission. I know it’s not possible, but you gotta dream big,

Elin Walters 

one house at a time, right? Yep,

Della Hansmann 

Absolutely. Well, if you if you could pick a dream house to work on, what would it be? Would it be more of a time capsule, or would it need more help? Would it be something that had been sort of mistreated in the past and needed putting back?

Elin Walters 

I think it’s a combination, honestly, like, I love, I love the time capsule elements, but I find walking into a house that’s a complete Time Capsule as kind of like a letdown, like it was already done. So well.

Della Hansmann 

We don’t need to change it. Yeah.

Elin Walters 

There’s no changes. From a professional point of view. It’s no fun. It’s no fun, right? Or maybe taking the time capsule, and maybe you completely renovate the kitchen to be modern, but make it look like it was time capsule, right? Yeah.

Elin Walters 

So like, get it to be efficient and have all the appliances that are up to date but looks like it really wasn’t pulled out and redone. You know, I think, I think the challenge is to make things look like the original. That’s, that’s what I love to do.

Della Hansmann 

Yeah, and that’s, that’s the real trick. And I think it’s a testament to good plan, good design and good execution by a contractor is right, if you wonder, that’s a win.

Elin Walters 

Completely. absolutely, start to finish.

Della Hansmann 

Well, here’s to some more projects where we can make that happen, and we’ll just keep working on it.

Elin Walters 

Yes, we will check them off. Save the world, save the mid-century, modern world,

Della Hansmann 

one mid-century ranch at a time. I love it.

Della Hansmann 

So who do you need on your team? The answer is different for every homeowner and every project, but the bottom line is that you do need people. Not just someone, but multiple people on your team who care about the mid-century-ness of your home as much as you do.

Della Hansmann 

People who can reinforce your preferences, give you added information to back up your choices, and who are familiar with navigating the complexities of making modern decisions for a vintage house, update choices that are going to keep what’s great about it intact, not wipe it clean of those charming features. The good news is that you’re not alone.

Della Hansmann 

Elin’s got your back and mid mod, Midwest has a range of ways you can get great advice about your home. Check out some of our free resources on front door updates, on smart kitchen choices, on how to set your style guide. Or just check out my free master class how to plan a mid-century remodel to fit your life and budget anytime you need it.

Della Hansmann 

Find those resources, plus the transcript of this episode and some links to some beautiful photos of Alan’s recent projects at the show notes page, midmod-midwest.com/1813 now, before I wrap up next week on the podcast, I’m kicking off a new season.

Della Hansmann 

The first couple of episodes are already in the can, and I’ll be focusing on the end goal of all our design thinking getting into construction. So I’ll start at the end, literally, with what you should be thinking and prioritizing at the conclusion or near it of your remodel project, those important last choices you can make, and how to set yourself to make them well.

Della Hansmann 

I’ll also be looking back at everything I’ve done and not yet done on my own home and come clean on some of my greatest remodeling regrets. Yeah, I have them, and I have thoughts on how you can avoid the same regrets.

Della Hansmann 

Plus, by request, I’m putting together a quick start guide to making a mid-century house, your home, what you can think about and make tracks on even before you have the keys, and how to make sure your first moves move you in the direction of a remodel you’ll love. So see you next week for a new season. Can’t wait.