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"A home like most have never seen before opens its doors Saturday for a very good cause.WISN 12 News' Kathy Mykleby took a tour of this year's Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse and all its glamor.As you walk through the home, you see it is a house and a cause dedicated to living, Mykleby said.\u00A0Linda Short went from being a school teacher docent to a Showhouse board member. In between, she had a very scary diagnosis.\"I was blessed though, Kathy. They found it early, and that's why I urge everybody get your mammograms. It found it very little, (the) size of a grain of salt, sand. Then, all I had to do was have radiation because it had not gone into the lymph nodes, and it has been five years. I am going to be on my fifth year, and they are going to be able to call me a survivor,\" Short said.When the castle among castles along Newberry Boulevard in Milwaukee was built in the 1930s, breast cancer was just breaking out from being a disease spoken about only in hushed tones.Today, as finishing touches from the master bath to the mud room are put in place on this, the 16th year of the Showhouse, headlines constantly trigger new awareness of the disease.Most recently, Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy to thwart a menacing genetic trait for breast cancer captured a lot of attention.From star power to someone you know, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime -- 220,000. It kills more than 40,000 women a year. That hits home for everyone involved in the Showhouse, and they have their hearts set on another successful run.The house has 21 rooms. Dozens of designers vied for the coveted concerted effort.Their hard work is a donation. The owners of the home will purchase all the furnishings they ultimately choose to keep.Mobile users, click here to see images of the houseOrganizers hope people who buy tickets and tour the home will see the beauty, knowing that their contribution will add to the $4.75 million the Breast Cancer Showhouse has raised since 1998 for breast cancer and prostate cancer research at the Medical College of Wisconsin.Tickets at the door are $25. The Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showhouse runs June 1-16.\u00A0For more information visit www.breastcancershowhouse.org/wbcs2013/index.html."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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