SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Presentations can be customized for public or private audiences. Topics include:

1. The Architecture of the New Economy
   

2. 10 Tips for adding value to your home and community
   

3. Designing Small Homes
   

4. Design: The Differentiator in a Down Market
   

5. The Katrina Cottage: Affordable Solutions for Housing
   

6. Get Your House Right™:Where to spend and where to save
   

To book a speaking engagement with Marianne Cusato, please contact Irina Woelfle at (305) 447-8848 or irina@iwprgroup.com.

CONSULTING

Consulting Services and Workshops are customized for each client. Topics include:

FOR HOMEOWNERS

1. What are the elements of a home that will hold its value over time?
   

2. What types of communities will hold their value over time?
   

3. Downsizing: How to live large in a smaller home.
   

4. What are the elements of a livable home?
   

5. Making the best of what you have: Adding value to your existing home.
   

FOR BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS

1. How to design smaller homes with the impact and appeal of larger designs.
   

2. Review of existing designs and details to offer suggestions for adapting for the new economy.
   

3. How to differentiate designs economically and avoid ‘cookie cutter’ developments.
   

4. How adjustments to your land plan add value to individual buildings.
   

5. How to balance economies of scale and variety of design in such a way a development is affordable to build, yet feels authentic.
   

6. Review of architectural design details focusing on where and how budget is spent.
   

7. Discuss material selections in relation to design details.
   

8. Talk about designs at the three key levels – design, specification and construction.
   

FOR REALTORS

1. How to approach sales in the new economy - what are the elements of a New Economy Home, how do these differ from the typical McMansion.
   

2. Thinking beyond the checklist – what REALLY sells a house, what is ACTUALLY valuable to the homeowner. How to sell more than square footage and granite counters, how to sell communities.
   

3. Selling for living in the home rather than flipping.
   

FOR CITY OFFICIALS

1. What types of communities maintain their values over time?
   

2. What type of growth is good and what is bad?
   

3. How to address the NIMBYs in your community.
   

EVERYONE: Homeowners/Builders/Developers/Realtors/City Officials

1. Rethinking what we take as given and variable in the building industry, taking a very close look at the default setting.
   

2. What are the elements of a valuable and livable home?
   

3. Common sense design – often the most successful designs are the ones that are simplest. From the urban planning, to the building design and even material selection. Discuss ways to keep it simple. Know where to spend money and where to save.
   

To book a consulting session or workshop with Marianne Cusato, please contact Irina Woelfle at (305) 447-8848 or irina@iwprgroup.com.

Marianne Cusato presenting at The New Yorker Conference: Visions from 2012

Marianne Cusato presents

‘Design, Architecture and Authenticity’

Excerpt from webinar

‘9 Elements of a Valuable Home’

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & CONSULTING

The landscape of the building industry has changed with the economic meltdown. These changes are physically effecting how we live in our homes and communities. The new face of housing will be smaller and more compact, economic to build and efficient to maintain. What does this mean for you as a builder, developer, realtor, city official or homeowner?