Rib Hillis is the new hunk member of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. His carpentry experience goes back to college, when he framed houses and did demolition and construction work. He has also had a successful handyman business, but these days, his acting and modeling career take up his work time.
While Rib is new to the show, he is not entirely new to television. He has appeared in various TV shows, including Model Citizen, Get a Grip, Ugly Betty, CSI and CSI: Miami. He will also appear in a starring role in the feature film Propiedad Ajena, which …read more

Michael Moloney is one of the members of the design team that worked on the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition house for the Nickless family in Holt, Michigan last week.
Michael started out in the fashion industry. In 1990, he started to apply his unique and luxurious design concepts to homes. He combines a modern style with practicality and vintage charm. Michael has opened two home design stores in the Los Angeles area. He has worked with various celebrities, as well as the Walt Disney Company and the NFL.

Who is the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition design team member who wears a pair of pink boots, pink work gloves and a pink tool belt?
Paige Hemmis, of course!
At the site of Extreme Makeover home in Holt, Paige was easy to spot. There was simply no losing her pink hard hat in the crowd.

Design Team member and carpenter Paige Hemmis with a volunteer at the Nickless family home

Ty Pennington, the host of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, combines an art education (specifically graphic design, painting and sculpture), carpentry skills, modeling and acting in one package. He attended Kennesaw College before transferring to the Atlanta Art Institute and then the Atlanta College of Art. His modeling after college took him all over the world, working for clothing companies and appearing in TV commercials.
On TV, Ty first gained popularity as the hunky, sometimes-shirtless carpenter of TLC’s Trading Spaces. He has since added to his TV credits as the design team leader and host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

Here are some photos of the big reveal today at the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Holt, Michigan.

Today was the day! At the site of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Holt, the crowd was huge, excitement filled the air, shouts of “Move that bus!” rang periodically. And then the Nickless family got to see their new home for the first time!
Arlene Nickless and her young sons Aaron, 11, Noah, 9, and Andrew, 7, returned from their show-sponsored vacation at Walt Disney World to a 3,300 square-foot, 4-bedroom house where their crumbling 1860s home once stood. Builder Mayberry Homes, area contractors and suppliers, Michigan State University and hundreds of volunteers came together for 1 week …read more

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:

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 …read more