Kathy’s name was chosen from more than 94 million entries for the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway^® 2015. Our lucky winner says she “was so amazed” when John Gidding and the HGTV production crew ambushed her Friday at a local restaurant. 

Kathy was misled into thinking she was helping to plan the winner ambush for her close friend, Mandy. 

“I had never known anyone who’d won something so big, and I was so excited for her,” she explains. 

Much to her surprise Kathy was actually planning her own winner ambush with friends and family.