A city family’s search for a small suburban home that led them to Norwood was featured Tuesday night on HGTV’s “House Hunters” writes Peg DeGrassa for The Times Herald.

Luciana “Luci” Villar and her husband Ryan Nugent, living in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia, dreamt of getting out of the city and moving to a place with a sense of community to raise their three children.

Their life-changing two-month search for a dream home was captured on HGTV’s “House Hunters”.

Villar, a supervisor in Drexel University’s animal research lab, and Nugent, a Sunbound Technology manager in the Lehigh Valley, appear on the show with their three children: Jovin Mills, 12; Luka Mills, 8; and Kara Nugent, 1.

Luci Villar had once lived in Ridley and liked the area.

“When we drove around this area, we got to see what a small-town feel they had and you just don’t find that in too many places anymore,” Villar said. “That, combined with the sense of a strong community, was the biggest appeal here.”

The family found their dream home on Delaware Avenue in Norwood in March, a three-bedroom duplex with “a beautiful deck”.  They moved there in April.

See what the family thinks of Norwood and read about their future plans in The Times Herald.