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After Hotel Attack, It's On With the Reality Show
Crews for ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" work on the site where a three-story, six-bedroom house will be built this week for a Capitol Heights woman and her eight children.
(By Kevin Clark -- The Washington Post)
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Filming began yesterday. Crews expected to lay a concrete foundation on the narrow corner lot last night and planned to begin building walls this morning. The home designs and construction plans are being kept secret from the family, which ABC sent to Disney World for a vacation. The Ginyards will return this weekend for the unveiling. ABC has not set an air date for the show.
Eduardo Xol, one of the show's celebrity designers, tried not to disclose any design secrets but said the home would have a clean, modern feel. The designers are still selecting furniture, fabrics and colors, as well as deciding on the exterior look and landscaping, he said.
The crews will shop at Sears, a sponsor of the show, and other area stores for supplies, appliances and furnishings. Storehouse Furniture has donated about 100 pieces worth $80,000 for this home, Storehouse President Caroline Hipple said.
Xol said the designers want to give the Ginyards enough space to live comfortably. The house will be significantly larger and more modern than the modest homes that dot the Capitol Heights neighborhood. "We try to maintain some sort of integrity with what's going on in this neighborhood," he said. "But it's going to be an extreme transformation for them."
The first day of filming drew a crowd of volunteers wearing blue T-shirts and white hard hats who stood in the searing heat to catch a glimpse of the action.
Four women from the Professional Association of Custom Clothiers arrived to help make curtains and bedspreads. They carried a basket of chocolate chip cookies, which quickly became a clue to their real agenda: to meet Ty Pennington, the show's jack-of-all-trades who is known to work shirtless.
"Everybody I've told asks if I'm gonna meet Ty," said Doralee Billings, 47, of Columbia.
"It would be un-American not to love Ty," her friend chimed in. Said a third woman, "Chocolate chip cookies open a lot of doors."
Staff writer Lisa de Moraes contributed to this report.
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