Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Air Date Nov. 30th

[ramanth]

I must pre-empt this post with a correction. It was not Eduardo that I saw the other day, but the new designer, Rib Hillis.

So the group that is working on the MI site are Ty, Paige, Michael, Ed, and Rib.

Designer Bios

I must also apologize for the lack of photos, but boy do I have a story to tell.

First, pictures...

The home at 6 a.m.


And two hours later - note the lack of people..only crazy people are up at that time...

[ramanth]

Floor plans!

Front and back of house


First floor


Second floor


Filming the arrival of playground equipment


Danielle and I

[ramanth]

Okay, so the story.

I arrive at check in at 5 a.m. as instructed. All goes smoothly. I make friends with a woman that works at Sparrow Hospital named Danielle. A coordinator snags 8 volunteers out of the 20 or so of us that are standing around. She instructs them that they will be helping set up breakfast at the site and has them get on the shuttle bus.

She then turns to the rest of us and states, "Well, usually I'd assign you all tasks, but honestly, there isn't anything to do. We're not making you go home, but we just want you to know that you may be standing around all day."



A few volunteers leave, but Danielle and I decide to stick it out. It's freaking freezing out, so we spend most of our time in the heated tent. We have breakfast at 7 and around 9, Danielle and I are snagged to do donations.

So our time is split between roaming the spectator area (where I've been the past two days) and riding the buses transporting spectators to and from the site.

At noon, Danielle and I turn in our donation jars to the coordinator on duty.

We grabbed a quick snack at the food tent and are waiting for the next shuttle bus to take us to our cars when another volunteer joins us. We're chatting about what we did and she's sharing how she's been working in the house. We sigh wistfully and state how we wish we could of helped out inside.

The words are no sooner out of my mouth when one of the producers walks up and asks if we're busy. We all said no and he replies, "Good, follow me. We're shooting a scene up at the house right now and I need volunteers."

We stammer about how we don't have hardhats (a MUST if you're near the house) and he says, "Don't worry about it."

Then a security guard actually went to stop us as we went up the driveway and the producer says, "They're with me!"

Turns out the scene is having the Sears truck back up the driveway full of Craftsman tools and supplies and Rib gets the volunteers fired up and we help unload the truck.

Well, the scene sort of branched from that and half of the volunteers ended up in the garage with Rib, while Danielle and I and a handful of others ended up outside pretending to care for the landscape. I was on my hands and knees tending the mulch around the bushes.

Many takes were shot, then they actually had us unload the truck and I'm in the thick of it.

After that, we had the items in the garage and were opening them on camera.

So look for the girl with short black hair with no hardhat on. There... I made myself easier to spot.

That is if the scene doesn't end up on the cutting room floor.

Afterwards, Rib came around to everyone, thanked us and signed the backs of our shirts!

Danielle and I weren't ready to leave the house just yet, so we snagged some discarded hardhats and another organizer instructed us to put together some stools and other Craftsman equipment and haul empty boxes out of the garage. So we did!

Then with another woman, we ambled into the house, looked around, went out back to see the playground equipment being built, then headed over to the tent for dinner.

It was quite an adventerous day.

Rib told all of us to come back tomorrow with our shirts on and that they'd have all the volunteers together for the unveiling of the home. So Danielle and I are gonna meet up and do that. Hopefully I'll get better pics and video.

[ramanth]

Also if anyone is interested, a local radio station has some nice shots of the old home and of the initial build.

http://www.new975.com/PhotoWall.asp?id=45561&start=1

[Cinder & Smoke]

WOW!

Day ya had!!
Sounds like you're into a little bit of everything on the Project -
hopefully you'll make it on the TV segments.

[ramanth]

Official Aire Date!!

Nickless Family
Nov 30, Sun 8/7c
Ty and the gang travel to Holt, Michigan, to rescue a widow and her three young sons from their crumbling 148-year-old house.

[davidpizzica]

Sadly, life and work got in the way of my going over to watch, but when I was working on the golf course, from about 3/4 of a mile away I heard "Move that bus!" I can't wait to find the air date for the one in Pittsburgh.

[beeniesmom]

Awesome! I was wondering when it was going to air.
Looking forward to watching it.

[Cincy'sMom]

I was just telling Ralph we needed to start paying attention...the one from Toledo was on this past week and I knew they were working on the house in MI just after that so figured it had to air soon!

I don't know if anyone saw the one this past weekend, ( I have it on the DVR but haven't finished it yet), anyway, the fire station they were talking about where the dad works, is the one in my neighborhood...about 1/4 mile from my house. Kinda cool!

[Cinder & Smoke]

Well, we *watched* ... did we see YOU??

Fur sure, you weren't the only one not wearing a hard hat!

They really make it hard to see details (and/or People) with their super fast
and choppy editing ... it's hard to scan across a frame before it's GONE!

But we KNOW you were there!
And ya built a NICE House!!

Good Work, Kimmy!!