Despite lacking any experience with architecture or construction, she did everything — making sketches, buying the building materials, and building the house — without any outside help whatsoever. Her reason was the same as that recorded by Henry David Thoreau 150 years ago in the book Walden: Building a house is the most entertaining game in all of life, so how could you take the risk of letting anyone else ruin it!
完全沒有建築經驗的她，從畫草圖、買建材（竹山名產「孟宗竹」）到實際施工，完全不假手外人，她的理由和 150 年前出版《湖濱散記》的梭羅一樣──蓋房子是此生最有趣的一項遊戲，怎能冒險讓任何人「破壞」！