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Ed Sanders of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Maricar — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:19:22 +0000

London-born Ed Sanders brings his skills in cabinet-making and acting to ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Ed studied carpentry in a technical college in the U.K. He specialized in advanced joinery and high quality finishing carpentry. In between classes, he performed in theaters and appeared in television commercials. He continued balancing his acting and working at construction sites, a practice, he says, which would always keep his feet firmly on the ground.

Ed appeared in the lead role of Eddie Moliano on the U.K. TV series Dream Team, a drama about a premiership soccer team. He also hosted several television programs, ranging from dating shows to live music shows. In 2002 he became the host of Fear Factor U.K.

In 2004 Ed moved to Los Angeles and eventually joined the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition design team. Ed was part of the design team for the Nickless family’s home this week.

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition – Design Team

Maricar — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:17:02 +0000

ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is popular for its concept of choosing a deserving family and building a new home for them in one week. A team of talented designers travel with the show to provide direction for furnishing and decorating the home.

This week, at the Nickless family home in Holt, Michigan, the design team was composed of host Ty Pennington, Paige Hemmis, Michael Moloney, Ed Sanders and Rib Hillis. They are the team who worked with Mayberry Homes and teams from Michigan State University to make the home modern, comfortable and beautifully decorated.

Here are some photos of the team as they prepared for the “Move the Bus” reveal last Friday:

From left: Michael Moloney, Ed Sanders, Rib Hillis and Paige Hemmis

As they worked on the Nickless home, the design team also got involved in the Lansing community (Rib Hillis led a local blood donation drive), and interacted with fans and viewers of the show.

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Photos)

Maricar — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:24:07 +0000

Here are some of the photos I took at the site of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Holt, Michigan yesterday. Landscaping has started, and most of the work on the home’s exteriors is done. Volunteers and the design crew were working on the inside of the home, installing plumbing, doors, floors and closets.

The new home of the Nickless family as it looked on Wednesday morning:

Volunteers lay asphalt on the driveway:

images from personal collection

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition – The House is Up

Maricar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:06:59 +0000

The crew of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have got house building down to a science. Yesterday, there was nothing but rubble at the site.

Today, this was what I saw:

24 hours after demolition, there’s an actual house standing on the site!

It was a hive of frenetic activity; there were people doing something or other everywhere. There were more volunteers, more spectators, more trucks and buses coming and going.

(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.

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