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Mid Mod Remodel
Do you live in a mid-century house? Are you curious about mid-century homes and wonder what it would take to renovate? Or are you just a fan of all things mid-century modern? Mid Mod Remodel is the podcast where you learn how to match a mid-century home to your modern life.
I'm your host, Della Hansmann, an architect and the owner of Mid Mod Midwest. I help people remodel their mid-century homes and I'm a mid mod homeowner fixing up my 1952 ranch. Learn what makes mid-century homes great, the…
Episodes
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Turn Scrolling MCM Instagram into a Remodeling Action Plan
I suspect you might be a little like me, and find yourself scrolling on social media more than you mean to these days! This is where we catch up on news from…
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Design your Remodel BEFORE you set the Budget
The common wisdom is that you should save up money for a remodel and then plan one that fits your budget. I want to pitch an alternate plan. It can be better…
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Smash the Patriarchy: Take the Lead on Your Remodel Like a Woman
While today’s episode is all about how lead your remodel like a woman, it is also universally good advice for anyone planning to take on a home update. If you…
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It's your House - Now make it your Home
What do you think of when I tell you that you can personalize your home? Does it call to mind choosing furniture, painting the front door, and perhaps…
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Your Remodel needs a Master Plan not a Floor Plan
A great home remodel needs more than a good floor plan. It needs a master plan. Having a master plan is more than pinning a bunch of things you like. It's more…
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Quick Kitchen Update Ideas to try Right Now
Don't have time or the budget to plan something really big for your kitchen right now? You can still have a kitchen you love with a Level One quick kitchen…
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Spot Your REAL Kitchen Problems … then use Design to Solve Them in a Mid-sized Remodel
Is your kitchen actually too small or does it just feel too small? What Kitchen problems are you really trying to solve with your remodel? Let’s make sure you…
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Yes! Your Kitchen Remodel DOES Need a Master Plan
A good kitchen remodel is more than pretty new appliances and tile. It really needs to work on a number of levels - it needs to be sturdy and safe, it needs to…
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How to Choose Mid-century Materials for your Kitchen Remodel
Will your kitchen remodel stand the test of time or look dated in five short years? One of the best ways to make sure that your kitchen update won’t feel…
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Kitchen Building Code Issues You Should Know About before you Remodel
Let’s talk about our friend the building code. Why am I so excited about this topic that usually elicits a set of grumpy complaints? Because the kitchen…
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Solving Mid-century Kitchen Layout Problems
Today we are going to talk about mid-century kitchen layout problems. Nearly every ranch kitchen has a layout that can be problematic for the way a modern…
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The History of the Mid-Century Kitchen with Sarah Archer
Today’s episode is an interview with Sarah Archer, author of the Mid-century Kitchen. I’m so excited to share this conversation about the history of the…
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Get What You Really Want out of your Kitchen Update
There's a saying that the kitchen is the heart of your home. That’s a little trite but still true. The kitchen update is THE first element that I hear about…
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The Style Guide you Need to Keep your Remodel on Track
I’ve talked about the value of design planning SO MUCH you might be sick of it. If so, sorry, not sorry. Your remodel is your home. It's important! Creating a…
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Landscaping for Your Mid-Century Home
Today, I call on another expert to help explain landscaping for your mid-century home. Listen in while I chat with Sara A. Meier, aka Green Thumb SAM, about…
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Add Accessibility when you Remodel your Ranch
Mid-Century ranch houses appeal to just about everyone. They are great starter homes for young families and just as great for couples looking to age in place…
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Make Sure your Mid-Century Remodel is Green
Do you ever think of remodeling your ranch as a strike for sustainability? I do. There are so many ranches across America waiting to be someone's dream home…
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Remodel your MCM Time Capsule or Flip (with Love)
In the 70 plus years since mid century ranches were built, these homes have had a lot of different stories, different owners, and different histories. Some…
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Find (and Buy) your Mid Mod Fixer Upper
Some people are looking for their turn key dream house but others want a fixer upper they can make their own. Fixing up modest little ranch houses into mid mod…
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Using the Zillow Phase of your House Hunt to Plan for your Dream Home
Finding the right Mid-Century home to make your own is an exciting challenge for a first time home buyer. To kick off Season Four of Mid Mod Remodel, this week…
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Find Madison Mid-Century Neighborhoods To Explore
If you, like me, LOVE walking around looking at MCM houses, you've probably been relying on that as a primary source of out-of-the-house fun during the last…
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Interview with George Smart of US Modernist Radio
Today, Mid Mod Remodel Podcast has … a GUEST! I am so excited to share my chat with George Smart, AKA Mr. Modernism of US Modernist Radio. He is the founder…
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Plan a Doable DIYable Remodel
You’ve had plenty of time to consider closely how your house is or isn’t meeting your family's needs right now. It is clear that your home might need a few…
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Your Roadmap Through a Mid Mod Remodel
I thought about calling calling this weeks episode a guide to get you to your ideal remodel but in actual fact … its much more a roadmap through the remodel…
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Collier Heights: Vintage MCM by and for Black Americans
Today, let's chat about the gorgeous mid-century modern neighborhood of Collier Heights in Atlanta, Georgia which was planned for, built by, and lived in by…
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Housing Discrimination and Racism in America
If your parents or grandparents bought a house in America during the post war boom years … they and you benefited from a system of racial oppression that…
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Design Tips to Help you Fight Clutter!
So how has the battle to fight clutter been going at your house lately? For me, housekeeping isn't my strongest suit at the best of times but I do know that I…
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Love yourself? Love your house!
If planning a remodel seems like a superficial thing to be discussing right now, I want to tell you that I believe it is ANYTHING BUT. The space we live in…
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Basement Transformation for any Budget
Need more space (desperately) but don't want to plan an addition? What if I told you you're sitting on top of doubling-your-square-footage right now. No, I'm…
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Help your House Multitask with Nooks and Alcoves
So ... it looks like we may be social distancing for a lot longer than we initially signed up for while we wait for our public health apparatus to catch up…
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Planning a Successful Remodel for (and with) Kids
Today, we talk about how to plan for a remodel that can grow with your family. One of the things we can still do while we all #stayhome to flatten the curve is…
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Creative Kid Spaces and Activities for the Stay Home Era
One of the many weird side effects of our collective corona virus precautions is that almost every kid in the country is home from school right now. Families…
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Space to be Together and Apart in your Home
This week's episode gets into the why of our homes' need for places to gather and places to spread out and get away from each other. Typical American homes…
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Remodeling Dreams and DIY while you #stayhome
Whether you are sheltering in place, safer at home, or just staying home, you might be starting (continuing) to feel little stir crazy. I have too. Here are…
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Tale of Two Remodelers: Who will you be?
In all my years of helping homeowners plan remodels, I've seen two factors that really determine whether someone will feel happy with a remodel during and…
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Use Pinterest (the right way) to plan your MCM remodel
Wait. You do use Pinterest to strategize your remodel plans, right? Here's the thing: Pinterest can be your best friend, or your most stressful frenemy when…
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Why Decluttering should be Step ZERO of your Remodeling Plan
Someone once said that a really good declutter of your life is as good as a remodel (and so much easier and cheaper). Now as an architect, I don't know that I…
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The Bullet Journal Method for keeping your Remodel On Track!
Today I want to share a really powerful organizing tool with you: the bullet journal method! Earlier this week I asked the Mid Mod Remodel Community how they…
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My Mission: Save the World by reviving MCM Ranches
Loving and reviving MCM ranches is more than my job. It's a personal crusade. I'm on a mission to help as many new homeowners as I can with the process of…
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The Mid-century Room Upgrade Recipe you can use Anywhere
Remodeling a house isn’t your day job. So how do you get the energy to take on a huge project like a remodel in on top of all your other commitments? Set…
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11 Essential Mid-Century Resources to Get You Started!
I don't know about you, but when I get into a topic, I really go down the rabbit hole. So, of course, I love to stay up on my reading regarding Mid-Century…
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Are You Ready to Remodel in 2020?
When we talk about if 2020 is going to be the year you remodel, let's start with WHY. Because my answer is that if you have good reasons for wanting to tweak…
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How to Plan a Mid-Century Renovation
It is so easy to get overwhelmed at the start of a big, planned renovation, especially if you're a first time home buyer. Adding the stress of a home…
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Establish the Remodeling Level that suits you
Do you know your own ideal remodeling level? It’s important to figure out how involved of a renovation you really want to take on long before you start!…
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Use this Simple Remodeling Framework to Plan an Ideal MCM update
Want to make sure you've thought of everything when you design a ranch remodel? This easy three part remodeling framework will make sure you are covering all…
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Features of a Midwestern Ranch You Should Recognize
Understanding what's unusual about some of those original features - and also the history and the reasoning behind how they were built - will help you identify…
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Know This before Updating an MCM Home
We aren't the same people our parents and grandparents were, so we need to tweak their homes a bit to make them facilitate a modern lifestyle. In today's…
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The History of Mid-Century Ranches in Middle America
This week, lets get into the history of mid-century ranches in the midwest. After all, it helps to know where we’re coming from before we plan where to go…
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Why you should remodel a Mid-Century Ranch
Remodeling a ranch or other mid century home can be so rewarding but it IS a bit of a challenge. Today, I introduce Mid Mod Remodel - the podcast. We'll…
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Introducing Mid Mod Remodel
Mid Mod Remodel, the podcast to help you match a mid-century home from your modern life starts November 14. Join architect Della Hansmann, weekly. Don't forget…