Home Design TV Show Helps One of the Wounded

I'm not normally a huge fan of interior design shows, but I'm impressed with how Candice Olson of Divine Design (click to view episode) on the W Network has helped helping redesign and renovate the house of a Canadian soldier wounded in Afghanistan. This, from the Globe & Mail:

“When you are a member of a military family, you get good at adapting to change. And nobody knows this better than Christian (a Lieutenant-Commander in the navy), his wife Karin and their two young sons. The family has travelled across the country with the navy, adjusting to many new homes, schools and surroundings along the way.

But their biggest challenge came when Christian was injured during an intelligence mission in Afghanistan. He returned home and had multiple back surgeries, but when he was not healing as expected, testing revealed he had ALS, a neurodegenerative disease (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) that causes loss of mobility and speech.

So the family made another move – into a new house that would better suit Christian’s needs and be able to accommodate an elevator. Karin wanted to reconfigure a room on the second floor into a space that could serve as both a master bedroom and a hub for the whole family. So I grabbed my crew and geared up to create a dual-purpose room that was beautiful, relaxing and functional...."

Well done - a bit more here.