David Honeycutt expected one of his appliances to be repaired, not a complete renovation, but members of the Home Depot Foundation’s Operation Surprise campaign have spent days working to improve Honeycutt’s home.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - David Honeycutt expected one of his appliances to be repaired — not a complete home renovation.
“I was in getting in a bad place and they realized that,” Honeycutt said. “And they’d given me hope.” Before the changes, Honeycutt said his life was heading in a dark direction. Even traversing the stairs in his home became impossible, preventing him from sleeping in his own bedroom for two years.“It became my pit, kind of hard to get in and out,” he said. “Kind of, ‘Do I bother hurting myself getting out again?’ ... The house got worse. I got worse.”“He can navigate his home, and be the independent veteran that he’s been his whole life.
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