Family emotional at the doorway of their newly furnished home

Everyday Heroes: Costa Mesa Interior Designer Gives Homes and Hope to Wounded Warriors

OC Register — By Erika I. Ritchie, Staff Writer

Tears welled up in Jorge Garcia's eyes as he watched his two-year-old daughter, Faith, dash through their newly furnished apartment.

She bounded onto the linen-colored sofa and climbed atop a dining room chair. She ran to her brand-new white wooden bed and pointed at its matching nightstand. She flung herself onto a magenta bedspread and stared in amazement at colorful decals adorning the walls.

Opposite her bed was a simple white crib for her new baby brother, Isaiah, born Feb. 3.

"The expression on her face was so amazing," said Garcia, a retired U.S. Army corporal.

Garcia, his wife Ramona Ivan, and their kids previously had only an old mattress, a taped-up chair, and a plastic box holding toys.

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