HGTV ‘Dream Home 2025’ winner becomes a first-time homeowner

HGTV ‘Dream Residence 2025’ goes to a first-time dwelling proprietor.

Tricia Smith of The Bronx, New York Metropolis, is that this 12 months’s grand prize winner of the community’s annual sweepstakes, which features a absolutely furnished brand-new dwelling designed by HGTV’s Brian Patrick Flynn in an idyllic neighborhood in Bluffton, S.C., Folks journal reported.

With the assistance of a buddy, HGTV offered the 48-year-old particular schooling instructor with the prize throughout a particular shock. For the setup, her buddy tricked her into considering they have been stopping by a pop-up artwork gallery earlier than dinner, however after they acquired to the venue, Flynn was there together with a digital camera crew, and footage of her soon-to-be dwelling have been framed and hung up all around the partitions. 

“No, you’re kidding. Is that this a joke? Are you severe?” Smith mentioned because it turned clear she was the winner in a video solely launched by means of Folks. 

Smith, initially from Antigua, was dropped at tears and shared that that is the primary time she’s ever owned a house. 

“This is able to be the primary time I’m proudly owning a house,” she famous. “And it’s a hell of a starter dwelling.” 

The house boasts 3,000 sq. toes, three bedrooms, three and a half loos, large home windows, sweeping views, and an open flooring plan, all awashed in coastal pastels. Different luxurious facilities embrace a state-of-the-art eat-in kitchen with a prep kitchen, a roaring fire in the lounge, a totally geared up pet washing station, a pool, an out of doors kitchen, and shut proximity to Hilton Head Island. 

In keeping with an HGTV launch, Smith’s prize additionally contains $100,000, a brand new 2025 Mercedes-Benz GLC, and a five-year provide of Viva paper towels, bringing the overall worth, together with the home, to roughly $2.2 million. 

After dwelling in an condominium together with her mom and sister, the brand-new house owner is worked up concerning the additional sq. footage, the views, and being near the water. She additionally intends to make use of the house to collect her family and friends. 

Smith, an avid HGTV fan, submitted for the prize for years, in keeping with the discharge. She additionally submitted to win the community’s different annual dwelling sweepstakes, the HGTV Good Residence 2025. Smith mentioned she submitted almost day-after-day for the Dream Residence, as you’ll be able to apply to win twice every day. She was finally chosen out of over 118 million different entries. 

Whereas she admitted that life in South Carolina shall be a “particular change,” she mentioned, “I welcome the contemporary air and peacefulness.”