Roman Schlaeger Architect / Design Partners

My husband and I had a wonderful experience working with Roman! After reviewing many, many portfolios and having several conversations with architects, we hired Roman/Design Partners to design our single family home in Norwood Park, Chicago. We decided there was priceless value in working with an experienced architect and in the end, we know we made the right decision in selecting Roman. We had plenty of floor plan ideas, but we were very uncertain of where to go with the home's exterior. Roman worked with us to implement our wants and needs and came up with a very family friendly, but upscale design. Even in areas where I thought I had my mind made up on how the room should look/flow, he brought better details to the table! Roman worked tirelessly to meet our needs, while pushing better creative solutions. And he kept our construction budget in mind all along the way. Before working with Roman we were really torn on the type of home exterior we wanted. We like wide, brick and stone "estate" looking homes which we knew would not fit within our lot, nor fit the neighborhood. Roman's 1st draft of the exterior elevation was perfect! We wanted very little revised from the first sketch he shared! One of the top advantages we found working with Roman was his constant strive towards improving upon his own work and bringing more ideas and suggestions up along the way. Also, he sees the big picture both when it comes to the entire property's needs (i.e. garage, yard, interior design) and building costs. He kept our budget in mind throughout the process. We are elated with Roman's finished work and would certainly hire him again!!