DOBSON — Lisa Caudill regularly passes David’s House on her way to classes at Surry Community College from her home in Alleghany County.

Her father painted the sign several years ago when it was the Mountain View Rest Home. When the adult group home was renamed David’s House after a man who used to live there, the sign was repainted to simply display the name.

“It was a big white board on both sides. I’m an artist and it looked like there was a big, blank canvas staring at me,” she said.

As the president of Surry Community College’s art club, Caudill saw the sign as a perfect project to undertake. She purchased the paint for the project and with the help of Sarah Brown, vice president of the art club, Allen Sewell, member of the art club, and his mother, completed the painting job in a day.

“I wouldn’t have been finished the next day without them,” she said. “I wanted to prove to my dad that I could do it. He’s an artist, too.”

Now the sign bears the name and address for the facility and a heart with hands on either side that look like wings. She took the design from some other logos she did for organizations in Sparta.

“I really wanted to put some dimensions with shading, but when I put it on paper and stood back to look, it took away from David’s House. Sometimes less is more,” she said.

The design took about a week to create as she got input from the owners about what they liked and did not like. Then, the night before they began painting, she took an art projector to the house to trace the design onto the sign.

“I did it for the people who live at David’s House. They needed a place that felt like home,” she said of doing the project.

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