Mar
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Coming Soon: HGTV Dream Home Winner Answers Your Questions
If you remember, a couple of weeks ago I asked for questions that you would ask the HGTV Dream Home winner. Stay tuned, because we’ll have videos ready this week where HGTV Dream Home 2008 grand prize winner Stephanie Dee answers some of the questions you submitted! Here’s a short profile of the Iowa mother of two, and what she was doing Sunday night when HGTV’s Lauren Lake dropped by.
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- The Shore at Islamorada: Site of HGTV Dream Home 2008 »
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Congratulations to Tommy and Stephanie Dee, and family!
I look forward to hearing more about the moment you realized I WON!
Enjoy the Dream!
PS: If you hear them drop any hints about next year's location, you can tell me – my sleuthing thus far has been way off!
Fcole:
Where's clue number 9?
thx
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I just wanted to know if you love all the decorations, furninshings, styles, and colors in the home and if you are considering changing any of the designs in the home to better suit your personal style?
Congratulations. I wish your family all the best and hope this win brings you great happiness and some wonderful lifetime memories.
CONGRATULATIONS DEE FAMILY. YOU HAVE A LOVELY FAMILY AND I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE YEARS OF ENJOYMENT IN YOUR NEW HOME. I KNOW THIS HAS TO BE OVER WHELMING FOR YOU, BUT IT’S A GOOD THING,
FOR A YOUNG FAMILY TO START NEW BEGININNGS. ENJOY YOUR NEW HOME!!!
I’m the first commenter!!!whats my prize…the hgtv dream home 2009?!?!?! yay i won!!
Anyway… was that “surprise” fake??
Congradulations Stephanie!!
Congratulations Stephanie Dee and family. I’m so glad your husband loves to fish. But, please, even if you plan to stay in the home for a short time, take prccautions to protect those adorable children of yours. The youngest, if not crawling now, soon will be. And then she will be a todler. Those stairs could pose a danger. I look forward to seeing and hearing your reactions as you visit your new home. God Bless and keep you safe.
Well, congrats to the Dee family! Hope you all enjoy your beautiful new home, or at least can make enough through selling the home to build your own DH back in Iowa. Best wishes and best of luck to your family.
this computer is slow!!!
but im still first!!!
Congradulations
Yay!! I am so excited for them…… I hope they answer my question!!!
congrats….stephanie….enjoyed your new lovely home and god bless you and your wonderful family….
FCOLE, I know this question is off topic to this blog entry, but when are you going to continue with the clues for the exact location in California for Dream Home 2009?
I just want to say congrad’s to you and your family on winning the house in Florida, I hope you injoy it. And all the happiness to you.
From: Tammy in Kansas
I love the 2008 dream home, but I was wondering is there anyway to get a list of the decorating and paint etc. for it. I especially love the master bedroom and would like to do my bedroom like that but i would need paint color, furniture info, accessories etc. If it is possible to recreate this georgeous room for myself, I would love it.
(Hey Barbara, you can find nearly everything seen in the home in HGTV MarketPlace. fc)
http://marketplace.hgtv.com/promo/dream_home_2008
Congradulations to Stephanie and her family! I will look forward to following their journey through the Dream Home experience.
I agree with one of the other bloggers…it’s hard to say how anyone should react having won such an amazing prize. I think worse than her reaction, was some of the mean things that were said by the bloggers. The regulars on this blogs, seem to be a cool group of people. I want to wish Stephanie and her family the best and I’m sure they excited as heck about winning. Let’s treat people they way we want to be treated.
Stay COOL and safe everyone!!!
See you around the valley Jack
Hi! Steph,Tom and the girls, wish you the best! Put up those gates so the little ones don’t get into trouble.I’ll be watching to see your special home coming daybue.What a dream that came true! P.S.Your a beautiful couple! If you read the blogs you’ll die laughing, such jealousy. Good Luck! Hope, Tom does’t miss first day of trout. Will catch some and send them your way. Play the lottery it could happen twice.
What does the winner plan to do, keep the home for awhile, then sell it or maybe invite family and friends to come and enjoy the house for awhile, then rent it out as a vacation getaway, that could pay the taxes and hurricane insurance?
FCOLE: I understand the removal of the prior blog with so much negativity coming in, but what happened to answering our questions about the prior clues? Are we still going to receive more clues this week to pinpoint the exact location of the 2009 dream home in CA?
I wasn’t thrilled with the final show either and I was surprised by the winner’s reserved reaction, but a few negative comments shouldn’t spoil the fun for the rest of us. Just delete the offensive ones and let’s continue the fun of figuring out the mystery location.
Thanks for all the fun.
When you saw the balloons and the camera come in your front door, were you stunned? You looked sort of shocked….or even stupified and dazed. Has it hit you yet that you won $2.2 million in a gorgeous home on the beautiful Florida Keys?
Congratulations Dee family we are thrilled for you and cant wait to hear all about your win.
To Stephanie: I am so very happy for you and your family and I know that there are many people that feel the same. The last blog was absolutely appalling. The comments people were leaving disgusted me. Yes, I too have entered the HGTV contest for the past 3 years. I would be thrilled to win, but jealousy has no place in our world; I witnessed how aweful blogs can get because there are millions of people with the ability to post whatever they want. Enjoy your new home!! It truly is a wonderful thing.
What a fantastic family to win this year’s DH.
Congrats.
Dear Dee Family, Congratulations on your dream win. To all the “sour grapes” out there. SHAME ON YOU. Everybody had the same opportunity to win the Dream Home. This wasn’t a contest for who had the best sob story or who thought they were more deserving than Stephanie because she didn’t react the way these people thought appropriate. Yes, the winning “surprise” moment was probably staged. After all this is television and ratings. If you all were so disappointed then don’t enter for the 2009 Dream House or watch the show. This is called real life and it is fun to blog and watch the progress of the construction and the videos and to dream but honestly all the whinning by you losers (not only about the contest) is enough already. Once again congratulations to the Dee family and a hugh THANK YOU to all the staffers, builder, designers, and sponsers for the 2008 Dream Home. It was a great ride! Can’t wait for 2009 Dream Home.
I am so happy for you. I can’t say how sorry I am for all the people who posted bad things when you won. Enjoy your home and live your life to the fullest with your beautiful family. I have to say I was so depressed the minute I saw it wasn’t my house they were at but I delighted in your amazement. I know your still probably trying to consume it all. Best of luck to you.
Congratulations to Stephanie Dee and her family! I wish you guys all the best. velvet350
My most heartfelt congratulations to Stephanie on winning the 2008 HGTV Dream Home. You are where so many of us have dreamed of being for quite a few years. Enjoy yourselves in Islamorada!! BTW, hope you enjoy the quilt.
Congratulations and best wishes to Stephanie and her family… You looked really overwhelmed!!! I can not believe nobody else has posted yet- especially with everyone’s obsession on Sunday night… I am ready for another clue for the 2009 dream home- Any hints?
My previous comments did not post so I will suggest a few things for HGTV to do differently next time. By the way congrats Dee on your win I hope you make the most of it. Well my question is dont you thing that it would be better for HGTV to charge a dollar per entry and max out entries at like 25 million? If they did this they would bring in $25 million and with this money they could give the winner $500,000 to pay taxes on the home and it would still leave them 24.5 million dollars. With the extra money they could give away 245 secound prizes of $100,000 cash. I feel this would be great because this is truly a life changing amount of money and not only would they be changing the lives of 1 family but they could be changing the lives of 246 families. This also give more people the opportunity to win and ultimatly would bring more viewers and fans. Imagine one of the biggest TV give aways ever. They could do a two hour live show and truly supprise the winner and also supprise the other 245 families. I think they really need to restructure how they are doing the dream home. So Dee I am asking if you would agree with me? Do you truly feel they need a change? Do you feel helping 246 families is better than just one? And lastly would this have helped you in paying taxes if they gave you the $500,000 based on the structure I came up with?
CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS !!! Precious Dee family, many of us are rejoicing with you. We celebrate your blessings and victory. May God continue to bless you, giving you much wisdom, strength and courage. There will be many that will rise up on your behalf hugging your family in The Father’s arms, with prayer, as His cherished children. You are very treasured. cYah
Congratulations winner 2008!!! We can’t wait to hear about you. I feel really bad for Stephanie after reading the posts from Sunday night. My wife and I were as hopeful as anybody else to win, and were a tinge disappointed when we didn’t. However, not winning is always a risk you take when entering a contest, and most likely the odds game is always a tuff game to win. I think people were rude out of the fact that this house was special for a lot of people, and in the end there can only be one winner. It so happens that no matter who would have won, for alot of people it is just hard to let go of what the dream home meant to them. I am just sorry they took it out on Stephanie the way that they did. My wife and I are truly happy for you. And what do you care anyway, you are a millionaire now.
Stephanie…congratulations on the win of your beautiful home…I’m so happy for you and your family…
If I had won I had promised the Lord that I would sell the house and with some of the proceeds I would help Danita’s Children Center in Haiti…Danita wants to build an infirmary there in her orphanage…I have been supporting her ministry for many years after I saw her on James Robinson…her story is self-less and the work she has done there since she started the orphanage a miracle. I know as a Physician’s Assistant…you have a heart for people and probably especially for children…please consider what I’ve said…and again…Congratulations…you look like a really nice person…
Thank you. It is good to get to know more about her.
Congrats! Did you submit your entry through the HGTV website or did you mail in your entries? How many times did you enter?
Congratulations Stephanie and family! I’m truly happy for you and hope you will be able to enjoy your new home and all that comes with it.
What happened to Monica Pederson, she was suppose to do the presentation right?
Enjoy the house…good future for your kids!Congrats!
wow….how boring even the trip winner already lives in FL…could drive there in a couple of hours!
I live in FL. and I am wondering if they Have thought about the fact that even though they are given this house where are they going to work when they get here. Is this going to be a home that they will live in or will they sell it and stay in Iowa the family that won looks like a good hard working family so the comment from zac seems to be a good idea and I think if you are going to build in california the winner of next years DH the taxes there will be earthshattering and to require the winner to pay the taxes on the prize would require alot of people to get a loan on the house so they are really paying for the house even on a twenty year loan would still pay 2.5 million dollars so really no one gets the home for free so in a way it is not a giveaway.
Congratulations Stephanie Dee and family- I was wondering if you entered the drawing on the hgtv website or if you mailed your entries in? Did you mail an entry in at all? Have you ever been to this area of Florida before? It looks beautiful- Do you think you will be able to keep the house? Have they finished any of the other houses around the hgtv dream house? Best of Luck to you.
Congratulations! I have a similar question to an earlier post, what changes do you plan to make to the layout of the dream home to fit your family? Will you move the girls’ bedroom up to the second floor? Will you keep the reading nook as is or do you have another idea for it? I can only imagine how excited you must be. I hope you enjoy every minute!
First of all, Congratulations Stephanie Dee!! I hope you and your family enjoy this wonderful gift of a home. How exciting for you.
Second, I’m disgusted at how selfish and mean and rude people are about all the mean stuff they posted about you. Everyone has their way of reacting. I actually thought you were shocked and overwhelmed as you said. Everyone should be ashamed of how they reacted to your reaction. Please people, if you don’t like it then don’t watch. It’s live TV you never know what’s going to happen. I’m sure it was shocking for her.
If you have nothing nice to say then don’t say it all.
FCOLE: My question is are we going to get any more clues for the DH2009 in California? I am still waiting for the answer to the question that I asked. It seems that with all the negative remarks from the DH2008 it has taken over and what we are suppose to be thinking about is the next location of the DH2009. Please, Please can we get on with the clues. It has sure been fun trying to figure out the next location of the DH2009. (Yes, I’ll get to another clue later this week. fc)
Stephanie and family, congratulations on winning the amazing dream home 2008. My wife and I wish you and your family nothing but happiness with many years of enjoyment in FL. HGTV, you continue to amaze us viewers with these unbelievable dream homes, bring it on in CA.
can they afford the taxes? It looks they don’t. are they selling the price package soon?
Congratulations Steph and Tommy, I am so happy for you and the girls. I was sitting and waiting for them to come to my home and tell me that I had won, but was just as shocked when I realized that I know the winners, I about fell out of my chair! Forget all the negative blogs, they havent a clue what your really like.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
I think I was so stunned at the winner’s reaction on winning (more stunned than she was) that I haven’t gotten over it yet. I sit there looking at my tv for so long after the surprise. Then my phone started to ring and everyone had the same reaction. Everyone at work is talking about it. We are so happy for her win and hope that she apprecites it.
Luck of the Irish to you girl and Happy Birthday! You were overwhelmed obviously Here is hoping you and your family enjoy! watch out for the greedy folks they will come out of the woodwork! Congrats!
Stephanie – I have 2 little girls too and living in the midwest. Its been a long COLD winter so I can only imagine how much fun you will have playing on the beach with your little girls. My question to you is, do you plan on redoing the kids bedroom to be more “girly?” I know my girls would have wanted a pink or green room even though that blue room is so darn cute. I hope you and your family enjoy every bit of the house and the beautiful location!!
Now, I’m thinking the home will be built on Park Avenue in Tahoe Pines, CA.