Karen Schroeder of Mayberry Homes in front of the house being built by ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Holt, Michigan
Viewers of the TV show ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition see Ty Pennington and the design team seem to do the impossible: put together a state-of-the-art house in 5 days, completely furnish it, professionally design the interiors, and present it to the family.
To accomplish this, magic happens behind the scenes. For every show, hundreds of volunteers donate their time, resources and skills to give a special family their dream home.
For the Nickless family in Holt, almost 1,500 volunteers …read more

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 …read more

One of the exciting aspects of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is seeing how radical the change is from the family’s old house to the brand-spanking-new one.
No makeover is complete without before and after photos, right?
Take a good look at how the Nickless family stood today. These would all be gone tomorrow as work begins on the new house.
From the street, the view of 1860s house is partly hidden by a couple of trees:

Extreme. That word describes the experience of being chosen to get a brand new home with all the bells and whistles.
Imagine opening the door and seeing Ty Pennington there with a camera crew, a design team and the promise of giving you the home of your dreams! That was what happened to a family in mid-Michigan this week.
On Friday, September 26, 2008, Arlene Nickless, of Holt, Michigan, and her family got the wake-up call to become the next family to be on ABC’s hit show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!
The house, which was built around the 1860s, was supposed …read more