The New Economy Home
Adaptable. Sustainable. Beautiful...Within Your Means.
THE NEW ECONOMY HOME IN THE NEWS
Sharing Spaces: Designs That Set Boundaries
International Business Times 3.05.10
The right layout, flexibility, and agreed-on rules can bring family members of multiple generations, or even outsiders, together under one roof.
The home for the new economy can be seen at Warwick Grove
The Warwick Advertiser 2.25.10
The Home for the New Economy, the subject of much recent publicity, offers all of the comforts of a larger home in a compact plan that is economical to build, efficient to maintain and adaptable for the future.
About.com: Architecture 2.22.10
They didn't have to offer me the chance to win a Kindle. Even without enticement, I was eager to see the New Economy Home by architect Marianne Cusato.
Small is the new big: International Builders' Show 2010 Las Vegas
The Ottawa Citizen 1.30.10
Marianne Cusato is the new darling of the struggling American housing industry, offering an affordable alternative to the maligned and overpriced McMansion.
Marketwatch 1.29.10
Times have changed, and the square footage of new American homes is dropping. Super-sized homes are out, and efficiency and versatility are in. MarketWatch's Amy Hoak reports on the latest building trends.
Foundations of recovery on display at Builders' Show in Las Vegas
Consumer Reports 1.27.10
Still, innovative products were on display throughout the hundreds of thousands of square feet of exhibition space, and energy-based technology led the way..while it wasn't technically at the show, the Builder Concept Home 2010 offered a virtual tour of the future of home building.
‘Tour the new dream home: at International Builders' Show, it's small, virtual, affordable’
USA Today 1.18.10
What a difference a year makes! The International Builders' Show, which opens Tuesday in Las Vegas, planned to showcase a huge and glamorous New American Home, as it's done in years past. Instead, it has a virtual display of the New Economy Home.
Builder Woes and ‘The Most Innovative Home Never Built’
Wall Street Journal 12.16.09
Dubbed “A Home for the New Economy,” the house eschews the New American Home’s five-bedroom, eight-bathroom plan for a 1,700-square-foot model with four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms....
‘The home of the future: smaller, simpler, more affordable’
Wallet Pop 12.5.09
“The Katrina designer, Cusato, has responded to the downsizing movement with the soon-to-be unveiled "New Economy Home" models. "I'm shifting from natural disasters to man-made disasters: the economy," she said...”
‘Growing number of Americans are looking to downsize their homes’
Staten Island Advance 11.24.09
Marianne Cusato, the creator of the Katrina Cottage, is ready to unveil an adaptable, sustainable 1,700-square-foot virtual home at the Builder’s Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this coming January.
‘Small Homes are a Big Trend’ ABC News 6.23.09
‘Making the Best of Staying Put’
Wall Street Journal 6.19.09
“Marianne Cusato, a Miami-based designer, included a boarding-suite option in a new concept she called the New Economy Home.”
Americans are moving on up to smaller, smarter homes’
USA Today 3.17.09
Cusato says the banking collapse last fall prompted her to co-design what she calls "The New Economy Home..."
Ottawa Citizen 2.7.09
“The designing mind behind the Katrina cottage and a veteran of the studio lifestyle shows how clever storage is key to coping with modest and bigger spaces....”
‘Future on Display in Today's Progressive New Homes’
Builder Magazine 1.27.09
“Designer Marianne Cusato, creator of the Katrina Cottage, recently introduced her concept for a home for the new economy....”
‘Has Architecture Reached a Turning Point?’
Residential Architect 1.16.09
“The McMansion backlash also has homebuyers looking for smaller, more efficient, and yet more flexible homes with modest price tags...”
Builder Magazine 1.13.09
“Houses that morph may offer a life boat to the middle class...”
MORE NEWS ABOUT Marianne Cusato & The Lowe’s Katrina Cottage
Additional Resources
Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid by Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons & Leon Krier. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
The Not So Big House: 10th Anniversary Edition by Sarah Susanka
The Value of Design: And it’s Effect on our Homes and Communities
by Marianne Cusato
Building an Affordable House: Inside Trade Secrets for High Value, Low Cost Construction
by Fernado Pages Ruiz
Building Better Homes - by Mark LaLiberte, Steve Northway & Steve Wright
