HGTV Dream Home Winners 2011

Thirty-nine-year-old Erik Makstenieks never thought his name will be picked among 76,000,000 hopefuls. The stay-at-home Dad from a suburb of Chicago was picked the winner of the HGTV Dream Home located in Vermont.

Makstenieks, along with his wife and children, walked inside their new home Friday morning. His winning is a $2 million package that included the keys to a fully-furnished 3,400 square foot getaway, a 2011 GMC Denali SUV, and $500,000 in cash.