BRODHEAD - Green County Habitat for Humanity will host an open house on Sunday, Feb. 9 for its latest site. The Green County Habitat for Humanity will be giving Chrissy Tway the keys to her new home.
The house, 1202 Sixth Ave. in Brodhead, was started in May 2013, after an older home on the site was demolished and removed. Despite many weather set-backs, the two-story home is finished and ready for Tway and her family.
The open house will be from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. with a special dedication at 3 p.m.
The home is the result of more than 5,000 volunteer hours, including numerous sweat equity hours from family and friends of the Tways. Habitat volunteers worked mostly Saturdays and Wednesdays. The project put an estimated $90,000 into the local economy, Habitat organizers said.
While tradesmen and women were hired and volunteered to do much of the professional work, many others helped with painting, caulking, nailing, and assisting in the many tasks involved in a stick-built home.
Several donations came in to upgrade the home from the more modest one planned. The donations included high-quality carpeting salvaged from a Madison residence, a set of wooden kitchen cabinets and a floor display bay window.
Tway and her six children were selected for the 2013 Habitat home by a process that determines that they needed the home, were willing to work on it, and could pay the mortgage when it was finished. Habitat "loans" the money for their homes, provides volunteer labor, secures donations and charges no interest to the buyer. The Green County Habitat organization builds or repairs at least one home a year.
Refreshments will be on hand at the dedication. The event is open to the public and those who attend can view the home.
The house, 1202 Sixth Ave. in Brodhead, was started in May 2013, after an older home on the site was demolished and removed. Despite many weather set-backs, the two-story home is finished and ready for Tway and her family.
The open house will be from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. with a special dedication at 3 p.m.
The home is the result of more than 5,000 volunteer hours, including numerous sweat equity hours from family and friends of the Tways. Habitat volunteers worked mostly Saturdays and Wednesdays. The project put an estimated $90,000 into the local economy, Habitat organizers said.
While tradesmen and women were hired and volunteered to do much of the professional work, many others helped with painting, caulking, nailing, and assisting in the many tasks involved in a stick-built home.
Several donations came in to upgrade the home from the more modest one planned. The donations included high-quality carpeting salvaged from a Madison residence, a set of wooden kitchen cabinets and a floor display bay window.
Tway and her six children were selected for the 2013 Habitat home by a process that determines that they needed the home, were willing to work on it, and could pay the mortgage when it was finished. Habitat "loans" the money for their homes, provides volunteer labor, secures donations and charges no interest to the buyer. The Green County Habitat organization builds or repairs at least one home a year.
Refreshments will be on hand at the dedication. The event is open to the public and those who attend can view the home.