B. S. in Housing and Interior Planning, Syracuse University, followed by graduate school at Texas Tech University.

Certified Kitchen Designer in 1979,
Certified Bathroom Designer in 1994.
These certifications are only given to highly qualified kitchen and bath designers who have passed rigorous testing and who participate in ongoing training to retain their certification.

Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer, 2001. I was one of the first 13 designers in the world to achieve this, the "PhD." of the kitchen and bath industry. It means I have both the CKD and CBD, have had one certification more than 10 years, and have had more than 100 hours of professional kitchen and bath classroom training.

Test Board of the National Kitchen and Bath Assn., 2001-2004. Being on the Test Board means that I am one of the 7 people in the world who grade the design portion of the exams taken by designers to become Certified Kitchen Designers and Certified Bathroom Designers.

In the late 1970’s, I began to campaign for the National Kitchen & Bath Assn. to update the "Rules" of kitchen design. In the mid-1980’s, the daunting task was launched. Since I instigated the project, they asked me to be part of the ad hoc research team, which involved experts from all over the USA, and research projects conducted at several universities. The New Rules are now used to teach kitchen designers all over the world, and are the industry standard to judge whether or not a kitchen is well designed.

The National Kitchen & Bath Assn. sponsors an annual international kitchen and bath design contest. I’ve won numerous 1sts, 2nds, 3rds, and honorable mentions over the years. In April 2004, I took 2nd place in one of the most competitive categories. Click here to see it. In 2007, I took honors for the best small bathroom in the United States. From all the bath categories, NKBA chose this bathroom to represent the USA in an international design contest in Europe. Click here to see it. It was an enormous honor to be asked to judge the contest in 1988 and 1989. In 1999, I judged a design contest for the National Assn. of the Remodeling Industry.

My work has been featured in almost all of the national shelter magazines : American Homestyle, Better Homes & Gardens, Home, Sunset, Women’s Day, Family Circle, Bob Vila’s Home Improvements

and national industry journals: Kitchen and Bath Business, Kitchen and Bath Design News, Remodeling magazine (cover and story), Design/Build, and the Retail Observer featured me as one of 10 "Prominent Women of the Industry"

and newspapers: Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune

and books: kitchen on the cover of "KITCHENS" by "Ortho Books", Sunset Magazine’s "KITCHENS", and Andrew Wormer’s latest book " The Bathroom Idea Book."

Kitchen tours: 2004 "Old House Tour" in Pleasanton. Blackhawk "Tour de Elegance" (Kitchen, laundry, master bath, plus 4 other baths. French-American School kitchen tour in Berkeley

Featured speaker at several chapter meetings of the National Kitchen & Bath Assn., NKBA’s national convention, radio talk shows, and co-chair of Weekender seminars at Squaw Valley and Monterey, for professional kitchen and bath designers, including a kitchen & bath tour on 17-mile Drive in Carmel.

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