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9        Kristina Munroe PE - Helping You Create a Sustainable Home You Love.
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346    <h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Living in&nbsp;Twisted Oak, our self-sustaining home has dramatically&nbsp;transformed my life. </strong></span></h4>
347<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #02b7de;"><strong>Turns out that living a simpler lifestyle brings a unique abundance and a deeper connection to the natural world.&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>
348<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>My passion is to support others plan, design, and build sustainable homes they'll love as much as I love Twisted Oak.</strong></span></h4>
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350<p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">Before I discovered the freedom of sustainable living, I was probably a lot like you. I was a typical professional woman with a husband, two kids, two cars, a mortgage, and a mound of utility bills.&nbsp;</span></p>
351<p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">Ok... So maybe you're not a women, and maybe you don't have kids. But, I'll bet you have a mortgage and utility bills and you're dreaming of a simpler life.</span></p>
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399    <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">As a structural engineer working in the residential building industry, I was experiencing first-hand the age of the McMansion.&nbsp;</span></p>
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401<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c64410;"><strong>I was horrified when I discovered that the houses I was engineering were built using wasteful and toxic building materials.&nbsp;</strong></span></div>
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403<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">The more houses I worked on, the more concerned I became about the expense and the destruction of our natural resources required to build these over-sized houses.</span></p>
404<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">As a mom, I longed to spend more time with my young&nbsp;kids&nbsp;rather than working on projects that compromised my values.</span></p>
405<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">But, like almost everyone I knew, we needed two incomes to pay our mortgage and household bills.</span></p>
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498<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #568814;"><strong>I had to believe that&nbsp;we&nbsp;could design and build with healthier materials and&nbsp;reduce our&nbsp;impact on the planet and bank accounts.</strong></span></p>
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500<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">Even though I couldn't leave my job, I decided to immerse myself in the study of natural building.&nbsp;I studied innovative&nbsp;materials, passive solar heating and cooling, permaculture, sustainable energy, and off-grid living.</span></p>
501<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">And soon, I started dreaming of a more sustainable lifestyle.</span></div>
502<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">&nbsp;</span></div>
503<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>My dream was to...</strong></span></div>
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505<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Simplify my lifestyle.</strong></span></li>
506<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Lessen my impact on the planet.</strong></span></li>
507<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Reduce my household expenses,</strong></span></li>
508<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>So I could work less, </strong></span></li>
509<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>and spend more time with my kids.</strong></span></li>
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655    <p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">The kids and I&nbsp;sold our conventional house and used the proceeds to create Twisted Oak, our self-sustaining home.</span></p>
656<ul>
657<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>We chose building materials to heat and cool our home for free - without&nbsp; pumps, fans, or switches.</strong></span></li>
658<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>We power our home with clean, regenerative energy from the sun. </strong></span></li>
659<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>We collect water from the roof.</strong></span></li>
660<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>The air is cleaned by an indoor greywater jungle. </strong></span></li>
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662<p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">The comfort and natural beauty make Twisted Oak a&nbsp;delightful place to live.</span></p>
663<p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">This home has allowed me to live my dream lifestyle - spending more time with my family and the freedom to pursue heart-centered work.</span></p>
664<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2980b9;">I have the joy and honor of helping others create sustainable homes for themselves.</span></p>
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685    <p><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">We still enjoy all the modern comforts of home...</span></strong></p>
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687<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>hot water</strong></span></li>
688<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>a full-sized kitchen</strong></span></li>
689<li><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>a complete bathroom</strong></span></li>
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693<p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">If you are at all like me,&nbsp;I'll bet you're&nbsp;worried about all the decisions you need to make to design and build&nbsp;your sustainable&nbsp;home. Even though I had been studying building for years, I didn't know how to start building a home for my family.</span></p>
694<p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">But, I took it step-by-step, and now I can't imagine living in any other house.</span></p>
695<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">I love waking up at Twisted Oak every morning, and you deserve a house&nbsp;like that too!</span></strong></p>
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787    <p><span style="color: #3b2d2d;">Whether you are considering building a sustainable home yourself or working with a builder, you deserve to have someone in your corner.</span></p>
788<p>&nbsp;</p>
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790<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
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914      <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Kristina Munroe grew up in Durango, Colorado, attended Durango High School, and graduated valedictorian in 1983. She graduated with High Honors from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, earning a civil engineering degree with an emphasis on structural design in 1988. </span></p>
915<p class="p2"><span class="s1">During her career, she worked as a Naval Architect for the US Navy, as an engineer for The Boeing Company on the design of the Boeing 777, and for smaller design firms specializing in the design of bridges and marine structures.</span></p>
916<p class="p2"><span class="s1">In 1999, Kristina turned her attention back to her longtime passion for architecture, specializing in the structural design of small commercial and residential projects. She started Munroe Engineering in Seattle, WA in 2001. She holds a professional engineering license (PE) in both Washington State and Colorado.</span></p>
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