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Learn more about the team helping to drive the 2021  ADU Idea House project

Frank De Safey is passionate about three things: Issues surrounding Poverty/Affordable housing, Career Empowerment, and the Environment.

In an effort to help in a small way, Frank founded and funded ADU Magazine support  the affordable housing and the Accessory Dwelling Movement.

One of the most well-known and recognized executive search recruiters and career empowerment consultants in niche construction, engineering, environmental, climate change/sustainability, science, manufacturing and industrial industries in the United States and internationally, Frank is a Founding Principal of Sequence Staffing (www.sequencstaffing.com).

With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he is especially known and highly respected for the success of the firm and has personally undertaken and led thousands of high profile domestic and international search assignments. In fact, he has earned accolades for his ability to find and fill the most challenging positions with exceptional candidates that have not only made immediate contributions to their new organizations but helped redefine corporate cultures. In many cases, the search engagements undertaken and filled are unique or have never previously existed.

A seasoned business strategist, he is often called upon by client organizations to conceptualize and formulate new business practices and then recruit the personnel to build out and run those entities. This includes identifying and leading a good deal of acquisition and merger activities. His efforts have launched new multi-million dollar businesses, products, technologies and services, and been strategic thought behind career networks with major media groups.

Frank has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, NPR and shows like Squawk on the Street and Nightly Business Report as well as being cited/quoted in everything from niche industry trade publications like Planning, Science, and ProBuilder magazines, to domestic newspapers/media and even CNN Asia.

As a noted speaker and professional networker, he is acknowledged throughout the industry as a strong proponent of continual individual career planning, branding, and professional re-investment. The impact of his thought in speaking and learning engagements has been called “life changing” by participants.

Domum is a small-town architecture firm that delivers big city quality. Led by Tim Alatorre, founder and President, the agency specializes in solving unsolvable problems.

Based just outside Sacramento, with quick and easy access to the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Napa, Marin County, and everywhere in between, Domum has clients across Northern California.

Their work and staff have been seen on everything from local television news to Houzz, de zeen, Arch Daily, Big Think, and major newspapers like the New York Post and Daily Mirror.

The company’s architects, designers, and planners are passionate and driven. Constantly learning and pushing themselves. On the cutting edge of virtual reality, their approach to design is to always visualize prior to drawing with tools and technology. Essentially, building projects in 3D and working out the problems long before construction starts. This method has resulted in better, more efficient designs, lower costs, and fewer changes.  

That passion for architecture is reflected in Tim himself. Working as an intern while still in High School and then gaining an appreciation for early architectural traditions while living in central Spain, Tim graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s prestigious college of Architecture and Environment. A licensed architect in California, Utah, and Idaho, he is also a LEED Accredited professional.

Now with over two decades of experience in the field of architecture, Tim has developed a keen sense of design and attention to detail.  Adept at managing complicated projects, he has gained a reputation as a problem solver and an innovator.

While known for work with single family residences, Domum is experienced with multi-family residential, restaurants, bars, breweries, schools, churches, modular construction, steel framed buildings, retail, shopping centers, commercial tenant improvements, shipping container developments, historic structures, and home remodels. They are skilled at building on flat lots, hillsides, remote locations off the grid, in flood plains, beach fronts, and properties with difficult neighbors and challenging site constraints.

You name it, Domum has tackled it. Just one of the reasons we selected them as our architect for the 2021 ADU Idea House.

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When Tami was three years old, she would re-stage her bedroom moving toys and furnishings. At the doctor’s office, she would straighten magazines, move a plant from one corner to another and “advise” the receptionist that she had too many magazines on display.

Interior design isn’t just who Tami is, it’s who she always has been. And design isn’t just her career of choice, it’s her passion and way of life.

An interior designer for residential and commercial spaces for more than 20 years, and a regular contributor to HGTV and DIY Cable and TV Programs, Teel’s style inspires the senses with layers of eclectic texture and a mixture of unique finishes. Embracing a transitional modern approach of balancing warmth with cool engages a sense of comfort and style. To Tami, each occupant and space is individually matched with a style all its own, harmonizing with its environment.

“When you’re passionate about what you do, it will be evident with fantastic results for your clients.”

Tami also likes to design with an eye towards bringing the outdoors in and vice versa. She finds inspiration in nature as well as modern art. There’s no telling what she might come up with – and that’s half the fun.

With our multiple residences, dozens of multi-functional spaces, and numerous indoor and outdoor living places, Tami was the natural choice to contribute with inspiration and design elements in the 2021 ADU Idea House.

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