#MoveInDay 55
Wow! What an EXCITING and FUN day filled with laughter and love from a community who really cares. Like, REALLY cares!!!!
🎥 We were joined by Erin Ivory of WGN Chicago. Thank you for taking the time to come out, produce this piece, and meet all of us. You are sweet beyond words as is your adorable and funny cameramen, Pat!
📦 A BIG HUGE THANK YOU TO Dels Moving And Storage for sponsoring this move in! You guys have hearts bigger than your truck and hope you will join us again! After rescheduling this move 3 times we are finally proud to bring you a story that deserves telling!
🏭 Our client lost his job several years ago in Ohio when his plant closed down. Many of the people in the town relied on this as their main source of income, so when the plant left so did they. Our client came to Illinois where his sister lived only to find out that she was not the same person he remembered and that she was not a “good person”. No need to elaborate. He could not live with her. He was desperate to work and found employment and eventually an apartment through the help of our community partners at Housing Forward. He works Monday through Friday from 8AM-6PM so we were unable to meet him, however, after several conversations we were able to design this apartment according to what he told our design team that he would like. We hope you enjoy the Before’s and Afters courtesy of Heidi Peters Photography.
❤️❤️❤️ MEGA THANKS! To all of the community members who made this happen: Marek Dominiak of MB Chicago Painting Inc for painting the entire apartment, Linda Johnson of Village True Value for donating all of the paint, Penny Kirschbaums for donating all of the Kirschbaums Bakery goodies, Sharing Connections for providing the brand new mattress, Jason Huth of Jason Huth Movers, Inc. for picking up the mattress and bringing it to us! Dawn Eaton of Art by Dawn Eaton for working long into the night creating a BEAUTIFUL custom made painting (very last minute) of the Chicago Skyline (client requested when asked about art preferences) and Alexcia Gonzales for picking it up when we were overwhelmed this morning and couldn’t make it happen!
Thanks to the super hip and cool Jenna Fowler of Vagabond Botanical for providing your unique and custom plant arrangements to bring this space to life! To all of the people tagged in this post who tirelessly give THOUSANDS (yes THOUSANDS) of hours without pay and without recognition just for the good of another... there are no words to begin to describe how much you all mean to this organization: Marcia Sullivan, Debby Meredith, Heidi Peters, Jeanne Plunkett, Kathy Robbins, Alexcia Gonzoles, Kristin Kwit, Meghan Haddad, Sherry Kulhanek!
Finally, thanks to Ebony Martin of Housing Forward (one of our community partners) for providing our clients and for going above and beyond in all you do for them when no one is looking. You are a gift! A special thanks to Anna Moore our former H2H client (now friend) who came with us because she wanted to give back to someone else. You are special like no other!
