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Clockwise from top left:

The table is set for outdoor dining.

One of three bedrooms in the show home.

Dave O'Neil of Ferndale hand-painted the
striped walls.

The garage has a message center inside.

Below: Amy Miller Weinstein in the
show home she helped design.

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of the University of Michigan,
Harrington College of Design in
Chicago, Cranbrook Schools in
Bloomfield Hills and Penland
School of Crafts in North Carolina.
Thrilled to have been chosen,
she and King grouped together
with other designers, and instead of
creating a single room for one child,
the volunteer team decided to do
the entire house.
"The family we are designing for
has one parent and four kids — and
three of the children are HIV posi-
tive," she said. "So we want to do
this for them. We talked to the kids
and to the mom to find out what
their favorite things are to do, what
colors they like and what their hob-
bies are."

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Early this month, Suite Dreams
will send the family to a hotel in
Jackson with an indoor play area for
a week, during which time the group
will come in for the transformation.
In addition to the donated time of
the designers, Weinstein said, "busi-
nesses have given us carpet and sold
furniture at rock bottom prices when
they found out where it was going.
"It is an incredible feeling to
give something of this nature to
people, when you know what a dif-
ference it will make," she said. "It
feels great to be able to go into
somebody's home and organize and
declutter it and make it pretty,
especially when the environment is
that of a child you know is not feel-
ing good." ❑