STUART, FL--Right on Kanner Highway in Stuart, there's a place where good feelings float through the air.
"We teach piano, voice, guitar, and all the band instruments," said Cindy Kessler, the owner and director of the Stuart School of Music.
The Stuart School of Music has been sitting in the same location, in the same old building, for a long time.
"I started the school sixteen years ago, and I was leasing the property," said Kessler
Thanks to some new developments, Cindy was recently able to buy the building that houses her three hundred plus students, after which her husband John went to work.
"I'm a licensed building contractor, state of Florida, and I'm also a Solar Dealer," said John Eriksen, Cindy's husband.
John installed energy-efficient, hurricane impact-resistant windows, low flow faucets, and over fifty peel-and-stick solar panels on the roof.
"This system should reduce our bill by about eighty to ninety dollars a month as an average through the year," said Eriksen.
Not only that, but whatever energy the music school doesn't use, FPL buys back from them.
"This was his vision. It's just absolutely amazing, the transformation in this building," said Kessler.
The system has a touch screen display inside so the kids can use it and learn. And John says getting your own solar panels isn't too difficult.
"They're very, very easy to apply to a flat surface, such as a metal roof or even a flat roof," said Eriksen.
Cindy says the environmental upgrades have had an amazing effect on her students and herself.
"It makes me proud, it's motivating, it's inspiring," said Kessler.
And for John, it's just the beginning of the changes he wants to make.
"To lighten our footprint on this earth, it's a wonderful feeling," said Eriksen.
Click here to visit the Stuart School of Music web site.
