Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Mid-Michigan) – Saturday’s Progress
September 27, 2008 by Maricar
Filed under Home Improvement TV shows
Today, at the site for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Mid-Michigan, the main task was to prepare the house for demolition tomorrow.
Volunteers, coordinated by Mayberry Homes, arrived to help with packing up the family’s belongings. Boxes and boxes were taken out of the house. Part of being on this show is that the entire house is emptied. Some of the items may be retained and integrated with the new things that the crew will bring in. They are even having all the family’s clothes taken out and professionally cleaned!
It was a pretty quiet day at the site today. As you’ll see from these photos, not all volunteers for this show need to be skilled at carpentry or other house-building jobs. A few of the volunteers started out by simply bringing in boxes to be filled up:
I saw a couple of volunteers tossing pillows into the giant dumpster out on the street:
Professional moving teams were on hand to load filled boxes onto trucks:
Off on another area (across the street, to be precise), the show’s production crew had their own jobs. This is one presumably the tent where custom furniture and fixtures for the house are going to be put together.
Tomorrow is demolition day!
(10-01-08 Update) Schedules: Spectators are welcome to visit the site. Shuttles will be available on Thursday, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., from the K-Mart parking lot on South Cedar St. On Friday, the shuttles will run from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. ‘Move the Bus’ is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. on Friday. Spectators are urged to get to the site hours before the 2 p.m. reveal. “Up to 6,000 people are expected” according to this LSJ article.
images from personal collection
I rode on Dean Trailways bus to the site where the Extreme Team and Mayberry Homes were putting on the finishing touches on the Nickless family
house. It was great to see so many people willing to stand in the rain to support the Nickless family not only by being there but donating money like I did. Ed Sanders was the best of the designing team to thank the crowd by showing up periodicly. Ty, I heard was in Minesota filming another show and none of the other team members bothered to show themselves, why? I know they were working hard and against the clock but come on show your faces now and then. Thanks, Extreme Homemakeover Dream Team for changing peoples lives for the better.
Hi Linda, They probably have different schedules and availability to come out and talk with the crowd. The times I was there, Rib Hillis was the one doing the rounds.