It’s an experience I wouldn’t wish on anybody.

We thought that if we could build a house with no recollection of the previous one we could live here. We chose to think of it as a journey.

She burns a cord and a half a year.

We did have a long hydrocarbon debate before we built, so we used propane. We also tried to do something fairly aggressive with solar heating. We generally produce about 30 percent of our energy.