Truly inspiring story - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

This is a truly inspiring story about Patrick, that we were fortuned to be a part of… As the show went live a few weeks ago we are now able to share it with you all!

Last November we were asked by one of our partner Cakewalk and ABC Primetime TV show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to help out with a family in Kentucky in building a recording studio for Patrick, a talented young man who was born without eyes.

If you're not familiar with the show, it airs Sunday nights with 14 million people viewers each week. Each episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is self-contained and features a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take at least four months to achieve, involving a team of designers, contractors and several hundred workers who have just seven days to totally rebuild an entire house -- every single room, plus the exterior and landscaping.
The lives of the lucky families are forever changed when they learn that they've been selected to have their home walls moved, their floors replaced and even their facades radically changed.

This ABC Primetime show has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program, plus the People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show/Makeover and the Family Television Award for Best Alternative/Reality Program.

Few words about Patrick ….
Patrick is also confined to a wheelchair and can’t extend his arms or legs fully. Despite this he played trumpet in the local college's marching band. His dad would wheel him around in formation during practice and games. The house the family was living in was too small for his wheelchair, so when home he would need to crawl (and remember he had no eyes) or get carried by the parents. The father worked nights to support the family and to care for Patrick and allow him to go to school.

Patrick new Studio

We had some great partners joining us and donated gear and equipment to build Patrick studio : Cakewalk donated SONAR 7 Producer Edition, Rapture, Dimension Pro, and SPS-250 from Power Studio ,as well as building Patrick studio on site, Roland donated a PCR-800 and Edirol Speakers, Audio Technica donated all the microphones for the piano, vocals and trumpet, Allen & Heath donated a ZED mixer, Auralex donated Studio foam ,Gibson donated a Baldwin baby grand (!) and guitars for the other son's room, and we -Microsoft donated Vista, Encarta and Office .

Even though it was a small donation from our side we hope we made Patrick and his family happy

The Hughes Family