Family grateful for home fixes

Volunteers redo carpet and floors, fix kitchen, add new furniture and clean up house.

Jamie Yancy, Eddie Cousins and their six children arrived home Thursday night to find a transformed house. Gone were the dirty, worn-out carpets, grimy walls, dingy tile floors, clutter and broken furniture. In their place were new living room furniture, new carpet throughout the house, cleaned walls and tile, hardwood floors in the foyer, new

ANDY SHARP / FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN Delashai Clark, 14, hugs her mom, Jamie Yancy, in their newly redone home in Round Rock as 8-year-old Nina Cousins smiles. The wall behind them is painted with chalkboard paint, and the children’s names are all written on it.