Metropolitan Studio®

A Visionary Session is an intensive, team-based strategy session for those who want to move their organization or enterprises forward. We will look at the current state-of-affairs and help you determine your vision and goals. Then, we work together to identify opportunities and create strategies to capitalize on them using the physical space.

Visionary Sessions are a great way to bring fresh perspectives to your ideas, programming, and physical space. Our team of professional designers will lead you through a series of structural exercises. We will document clear goals for your future dream space and a roadmap to make it happen, including an implementation plan.

The design services are implemented throughout various phases of brainstorming and conceptualization, followed by digital drawings and specifications. The final portion involves the tangibility of product designing, installation, and implementation. The schematic design, design development, construction administration, etc., are all involved.

Conceptual Design:  Conceptual Design workshop provides a unique opportunity to gather diverse stakeholders in a creative programming process to brainstorm ideas and generate a direction for a new or existing project.  This service includes an overview of visioning techniques, an interactive session focused on the project at hand and follow-up support materials.  We use our proprietary ten-step design process.

Schematic Design is the first stage of an interior design and architectural project.  It is the foundational step in a design process.  We discuss opportunities and solutions.

Design Development is the process of converting a design idea into design solution.  It is the phase of the design process that deals with planning and the execution of a design.  Design Development is the most exciting part as new ideas, color, materials and the environment comes to life.

Construction Documents: Construction Documents for architecture and interior design, documents all the decisions, directions to build and implement everything that goes i to the building to construct the building or space. All items in the construction documents are tied to a dollar amount.

Construction Administration: We offer construction administration to assist in the interior design installation.

Sutton & Co is a separate sister company utilized by Metropolitan Studio®, specializing in product design, purchasing, procurement, and installation services. We have valued, long-lasting relations with vendors, manufacturers, and product designers. We can customize packages for clients based on the type of project, requirements, functionality, and project size.

Our expertise ranges from senior living communities, office spaces, higher education, high-end residential to hotels and luxury resorts. We create a one-of-a-kind experience for our clients and tailor their specifications to fit all their needs through Metropolitan Studio® and Sutton & Co.

Color can influence decision-making, persuasiveness, productivity, and efficiency. Therefore, it is one of the most powerful tools we have for processing our environments and evoking specific emotions. We present architectural teams, developers, and owners with design materials and color schemes. Color sells, and the right color sells faster.

Environmental graphics, also known as environmental signage, are a type of visual communication designed to influence people’s behavior in an environment and can be a highly effective tool for your brand or company. Signage complements a space to improve wayfinding, evoke feelings, and is enhanced by art and graphics in the area.

For newcomers to the industry, we highlight the different components of building connections, a community and take you through all the stages of a project. This process includes visionary conceptual ideas, codes, demographics, marketing, proforma, investors, site selection, permitting, architectural design, interior design, branding, and storytelling.

The Senior Living Industry is booming. With the aging boomer population, more and more senior living facilities have become a necessary part of America’s elderly social infrastructure. Therefore, it is essential to know the latest trends and keep your business up-to-date with the ever-changing and fast pace of the market.

The senior living industry will continue to boom over the next decade. By 2026, there will be more than 70 million seniors in the United States, and their needs are constantly shifting and fluctuating.  To best meet their needs, we see a shift in business, programming, and interior design trends.

Connie is a sought-after speaker on senior living and branding.  She speaks about the process of turning visual ideas into physical spaces, storytelling, and the importance of creating dream spaces. In addition, she follows the market trends for everything related to the design of the interiors for senior living communities.

The future of senior living interior design is being influenced and impacted by the aging baby boomer generation. As this generation ages, senior living will continue to become a significant real estate market that people should cater to and tailor their business solutions to.  Learn the trends and designs for the interiors of senior living communities.

Connie Wittich is a solutions-focused Entrepreneur, Senior Executive, Advisor, and Innovator with more than 25 years of interior design success. Her broad areas of expertise include leadership, problem-solving, business culture improvement & productivity, business development, marketing, purchasing, procurement, and business transformation.

Connie holds a leadership position as the Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Metropolitan Studio®, where she works on an advisory level, providing workshops, visionary sessions, space allocation studies, and additional services. She uses her proprietary ten-step process to create inspirational environments, and her projects and clients win national and international awards. Connie has also served as the Owner, Partner, and President for sportzwave.com, where she designed, developed, and implemented a successful business plan to form an innovative lean start-up company to target an undeveloped but fast-growing market.