Inspiration Ideas and Expert Advice for Your Home Series Will Hold Its Final Class for 2015 Tuesday, October 6th

SEASIDE, CA (June 2015) Get Inspired at Marvin Design Gallery by Truitt & White! Join showroom manager Brian Borchert and sales manager Jack Lamon on Tuesday, October 6th for Inspiration Ideas and Expert Advice for your Home Series!

The topic for this class will be Replace Your Windows. Interested in replacing your home's windows, but not sure where to start? Our knowledgeable team will show “before & afters” as well as provide options for you to bring efficiency and beautiful personality to your home. It’s all about the details! We will be discussing:

• Weatherization and insulation advice
• Provide tips with measuring, especially for windows and doors
• Help with rehabbing older double-hung windows
• Advise on prioritizing projects—what needs to come first, what can wait, and what might not need to be done at all
Event Details:
· Sip local wines
· Savor some small bites
· Tour Marvin Design Gallery
· Meet the team
· Learn about replacing your windows
· Support: $10 donation to attend will be given to our charity partner the Monterey County Business Council for support of the Sustainable Building & Design Competitive Cluster
· Event location: 1096 Canyon Del Rey Blvd., Seaside, Calif.
· Event date Tuesday, October 6th
· Event time 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
· RSVP required to Jack and Brian at (831) 393-9420 or E-mail the showroom at [email protected].
· If you attend one of our Inspiration Ideas and Expert Advice For Your Home Series and decide to purchase your window replacement or new construction job from Marvin Design Gallery by Truitt & White a percentage of your order up to $500 will benefit the charity from the class you attended.
· Learn about our referral program- this might be the perfect time for you to tackle that project you’ve been putting off…using your rewards of course!

Background on Marvin Design Gallery by Truitt & White:
Living in what many call the most beautiful corner of the world, it makes sense to bring the stunning outdoors into your indoor space through the magic and elegance of quality windows and doors.
How about a sunroom overlooking the Monterey Bay, or floor-to-ceiling windows in your office? Or perhaps you want to add a 360-degree guest suite over the garage, or create easy access to the Peninsula’s idyllic beauty by installing a new sliding door.

Dream homes become reality by reaching out to the highly trained staff at the new Marvin Design Gallery by Truitt & White on the Monterey Peninsula. Expanding its unique business from a single gallery in Berkeley, Marvin Design Gallery now offers a beautiful, fully equipped showroom on Canyon Del Rey Boulevard in Seaside.

Making the Monterey Peninsula more beautiful one window and door at a time, the Marvin Design Gallery on the Monterey Peninsula is a dynamic and innovative retail environment. Its expert window and door specialists present unique options, exclusive features, and energy efficient solutions to perfectly fit any project, budget and design needs.

Homeowners, contractors, architects and designers all agree that the experience at Marvin Design Gallery on the Monterey Peninsula is unique to any other showroom. Marvin builds windows and doors the only way they should be built — made to order, and built around the client’s needs.

Working as showroom manager at the Marvin Design Gallery in Monterey, Brian Borchert meets with clients and handles inside sales. He sees the showroom as a customer resource, a place they can “open and close everything and see how everything operates.”

Featuring extensive displays of the newest Marvin products, the showroom gives builders and their customers a hands-on experience in a retail environment. The full-size displays include molding, siding and trim —providing a variety of product options and design ideas.

In addition to product displays, the showroom includes a meeting room with space for small gatherings and training sessions, as well as a comfortable area where builders and their clients can spread out plans and discuss projects.

Sales manager Jack Lamon helps architects, builders and owners to realize their project vision using Marvin windows and doors. He loves developing ideas and working toward a beautiful and functional end result — making the Monterey Peninsula more beautiful one window and door at a time.

Background on Monterey County Business Council:
The Monterey County Business Council, in partnership with what was then the Overall Economic Development Commission (OEDC) and funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, recognized inherent risks in the County’s economy and launched the Competitive Clusters (C2) initiative in March 2003. C2 is a strategic project designed to implement near-term economic development action as well as provide a compelling economic vision and strategic framework to guide development efforts in the future. The objective of C2 is to achieve a more competitive economy in the existing key industries and emerging industries that fit the special character of Monterey County by bringing together a representative group of individuals from private firms and public sector organizations that cluster firms rely on for input such as a skilled workforce, research & development, finance, and infrastructure.
The Sustainable Building & Design cluster’s Mission Statement is as follows:
“To promote the demand for green services and products while generating opportunities to further education, collaboration, and sustainability by developing strategies and relationships, promoting incentives, and considering a variety of methods that will further green building in our communities”
The cluster has had active participation from the green building business, education and nonprofit community through relevant guest speakers and presentations. Group meetings range in size from 10 to 25 people and have attracted diverse interest from throughout the region. In addition to unique sustainable building projects, the group has promoted green building materials, methods and technologies. Among the cluster’s past initiatives and successes are:
• Working toward a unified and streamlined building permit process
• Comprehensive inventory of existing training programs
• Model green building incentives / guidelines for new city green building programs
• Developing a model ordinance and streamlined permitting process for small / urban wind energy systems
• Working to develop guidelines for medium / large community or commercial scale wind turbine installations
• Developing a brochure for rainwater harvesting, and work with the Monterey County Environmental Health Department (EHD) and the Central Coast Graywater Alliance (CCGA) to develop a regional ordinance for graywater installations
• Coordinating promotion of Monterey County as a “Sustainable Destination,” with green building demonstrations and solar home tours
• Played a key role in helping the Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Alliance (MBEVA) to acquire funding to support various EV readiness activities, including for charging stations throughout the County
• Drafting a model solar PV permitting ordinance designed to streamline an over-the-counter permitting process for systems that meet minimum criteria.
• Fostering StepUp2Green(SU2G), an incentive-based program, that provides homeowners information, guidance and incentives to implement upgrades to home and property that will save energy and water while enhancing indoor air quality.