The award-winning 1980 Vermont Solar Homes competition super-insulated double-shell home she built in Charlotte, one of the first homes using foam insulating panels, continues to provide its new owners with bountiful sunshine and low heating costs. She finds deep-energy retrofits, antique house reclamation, life-span design, design counseling and home improvement planning, including heating system hybridization, to be a particularly satisfying way to assist families. A hands-on homeowner, she lives and works on a Champlain Valley hillside with a hybrid heating system; an old cordwood boiler with both powered and gravity feed loops that is piped alongside a rarely used oil boiler. Next phase will replace the oil burner gun with a Pellergy wood pellet conversion burner to achieve a fully renewable fuel heating system.