Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Boyles Distinctive Furniture joins with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to furnish a new home for the Tate family in Tampa, FL who received a complete home makeover.

The parents, Tom and Cynthia Tate, are well known throughout their small community in Tampa. Tom, co-owner of a pizzeria, is responsible for providing many of the young people in town with their first jobs. Cynthia has done extensive work with the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and the PTA. The parents are involved with virtually every volunteer or charity event in the community. It has been said that many of the kids in this community have grown up in this family's house and that June 12th was a rare day in that the house wasn't filled with neighborhood children.

Cynthia was the only one home at the time of the accident and was able to escape without injury. The plane's pilot was killed upon impact along with the family pets: two dogs and two cats. The co-pilot was badly burned but survived. To make matters worse, as a result of this accident it was brought to the Tate's attention that due to a clerical error they did not have homeowners insurance at the time of the accident.

"We were more than happy to help when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition approached us with this special project," said Chad Hendricks, Executive Vice President, Boyles Distinctive Furniture. "It is our privilege to help such a deserving family in their time of greatest need. Boyles is thrilled to have another opportunity to provide furnishings and to help the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team turn a house into a true home. We hope that the furniture and the experience of the home makeover will bring this family much happiness."

This Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Project is
One Among Many Projects Through Which Boyles Donated to a
Nationally Televised Home Makeover Show to Aid Those in Need