Makeover Wish designer, Ami Mckay, gets last minute preparations ready Monday afternoon. Tracy Fehr, a Summerland woman was chosen to receive a home makeover by the Vancouver-based TV crew.

While most people cry or scream when they receive a big surprise, Summerland resident Tracy Fehr responded with song.

The music instructor became the subject of Makeover Wish, a Vancouver-based decorating television show that provides a $25,000 room makeover for a deserving person.

With the help of her husband, Fehr was surprised on Saturday as she left her house for what she thought was a meeting. But waiting outside her door was friends, family and music students that had nominated Fehr for the makeover.

"I was just totally blown away", she said. "I was quite in shock. A lot of my women students were there, we just broke into song."

Fehr and her husband Ken spent the next two days at the Summerland Waterfront Resort, while the Makeover Wish crew took over her home. Designer Ami Mckay provided a glamorous but comfortable living and dining room for the family of five. The dining room makeover included a large round wooden table, leather chairs and matching buffet. In the living room Mckay used an oversized couch adorned with silk cushions, a new coffee table, lamps throughout and an $8,000 fireplace with oversized mantel.

As a surprise to the whole family, the makeover crew also redecorated Fehr's music room and installed a hot tub for the family.

Fehr said Mckay's design was perfect.

"There were lovely unique touches", she said. "It was very hard to take everything in at once. It didn't look like our room. They did very well."

Fehr said the family has already added its own touches to the room.

"We already have toys on the table", she said.

Fehr was nominated for Home and Garden Television's Makeover Wish 10 months ago when her husband saw an advertisement in the newspaper looking for mentors, local heroes and survivors. He immediately phoned Fehr's mother Sheila Johnson, who in turn contacted Fehr's music students, all of whom began writing letters about the musician.

David Berenbaum, vice president of The Eyes Project Development Corp. that is producing the show, currently in its first season, said Fehr was an easy choice.

"She teaches everyone to sing", he said. "She is always looking out for someone else.S"

After Fehr was selected, her husband and Johnson were tasked with providing measurements and photos of the family's Prairie Valley Road home. The pair were able to collect the information while Fehr was at work

I have very clever family members, she said of their ability to keep the secret for so long.

Fehr, who has lived in Summerland for four years with her husband and three sons, works full time as a vocal instructor at the Penticton Academy of Music. She began teaching voice on the side and realized that there were many women, some facing difficulties in their lives, who wanted to learn to sing, but were too afraid. She began working with these women and created Women in Song, a group that now performs to help raise funds for numerous charities, including an upcoming fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity.

Fehr also speaks and performs at women's conferences, where she talks about her religion and her music.