Lexington Participates in "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"
November 12, 2009
Lexington Home Brands, High Point, will join ABC Television's Emmy Award-winning "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" for a project to construct and furnish a custom home for the Creasey family of Lexington, N.C.
Tricia Creasey is a teacher who is battling stage four cancer while her husband struggles to keep their home livable for their family. William and Tricia Creasey have always been well known in Lexington as a wonderful and generous couple who are devoted to each other, their children, the school where they worked and their community. Three years ago, Tricia was diagnosed with colon cancer. A dedicated seventh grade teacher, Tricia refused to stop teaching while undergoing the chemotherapy and major surgery her treatment required. In May of 2009, Tricia's cancer returned and spread to her lymph nodes. To prevent the cancer from spreading any further, Tricia receives weekly chemotherapy treatments that cost the family $1,400 a month after insurance.
The Creasey’s bought their home as a fixer-upper, but the necessary repairs and renovations have taken a back seat to Tricia's medical care. Numerous structural problems such as holes in the floor, walls, and roof where animals can get in, cracks in the foundation, lack of insulation, and extensive water damage from a leaking roof create additional, everyday obstacles and hazards for Tricia and the entire family. In addition, the house has only one bathroom, which Tricia must often occupy for hours a time to take care of medical necessities.
The Creasey family will go on vacation to Walt Disney World while "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" team leader Ty Pennington, designers Ed Sanders, Paul DiMeo, and Tracy Hutson, local builder Hedrick Creative Building LLC, and more than a thousand community volunteers rebuild their home.
"We are delighted to participate with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," said Jim Burke, senior vice president of sales at Lexington Home Brands. "Our employees have been a part of this community for over a century, and the opportunity to furnish a home built through the outpouring of local support and volunteerism is a privilege. This is what we do best, and the chance to showcase the talent of our employees and the quality of our product in the home of a deserving family is as good as it gets."
The "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" design team will select furnishings for the home from Lexington's retail store in the town of Lexington, N.C. and from the company's 100,000-square-foot showroom complex.
Tricia Creasey is a teacher who is battling stage four cancer while her husband struggles to keep their home livable for their family. William and Tricia Creasey have always been well known in Lexington as a wonderful and generous couple who are devoted to each other, their children, the school where they worked and their community. Three years ago, Tricia was diagnosed with colon cancer. A dedicated seventh grade teacher, Tricia refused to stop teaching while undergoing the chemotherapy and major surgery her treatment required. In May of 2009, Tricia's cancer returned and spread to her lymph nodes. To prevent the cancer from spreading any further, Tricia receives weekly chemotherapy treatments that cost the family $1,400 a month after insurance.
The Creasey’s bought their home as a fixer-upper, but the necessary repairs and renovations have taken a back seat to Tricia's medical care. Numerous structural problems such as holes in the floor, walls, and roof where animals can get in, cracks in the foundation, lack of insulation, and extensive water damage from a leaking roof create additional, everyday obstacles and hazards for Tricia and the entire family. In addition, the house has only one bathroom, which Tricia must often occupy for hours a time to take care of medical necessities.
The Creasey family will go on vacation to Walt Disney World while "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" team leader Ty Pennington, designers Ed Sanders, Paul DiMeo, and Tracy Hutson, local builder Hedrick Creative Building LLC, and more than a thousand community volunteers rebuild their home.
"We are delighted to participate with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," said Jim Burke, senior vice president of sales at Lexington Home Brands. "Our employees have been a part of this community for over a century, and the opportunity to furnish a home built through the outpouring of local support and volunteerism is a privilege. This is what we do best, and the chance to showcase the talent of our employees and the quality of our product in the home of a deserving family is as good as it gets."
The "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" design team will select furnishings for the home from Lexington's retail store in the town of Lexington, N.C. and from the company's 100,000-square-foot showroom complex.
