Compleat Restorations Participates in 
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Compleat Restorations recently took part of ABC's Emmy-winning television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This special project took place less than an hour from Lancaster, PA.

Compleat Restorations used two Water Out® heat drying trailers and many fans to rapidly dry the drywall compound and paint overnight so decorating and home furnishing could begin.


        The first day on the set: no buildings yet!

Compleat also took 500 stained and dusty horse show ribbons back to their Ephrata facility to clean and restore them. The designers wanted to use the family's ribbons to place into shadow boxes.       


Building the Extreme Makeover House

Builder of the Extreme Makeover Home: Clark Turner Signature Homes

Back of the house

  patio

If you are one of the few who have never seen the show, the premise is rebuilding a run-down house owned by a deserving family, who despite their moderate income works for the betterment of their community. 

Within seven days the home is totally rebuilt. It’s a race against time as similar custom home projects would typically take four months to achieve. Every single room is drastically made over to exceed the family’s dreams, including professional decorating. The exterior and landscaping are also totally re-done. All this is done in 106 hours!

Each show a surprised family is sent away on a dream vacation for one week. 

 

 The project included 2 barns built by Paul Risk Associates, Inc.

While the family is gone, builders, excavators, surveyors, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, masons, dry wall installers, roofers, carpenters, flooring installers, painters, decorators, specialty craftsmen and hundreds of volunteers get to work. All services and products are donated. 

It was an amazing project to watch. Hundreds of people working on different parts of the project at the same time, or they were waiting for their time slot to go to work. Everyone was on a time table and had a specific number of hours in which to finish their work. Some volunteers were driving golf carts running errands, taking drinks to workers, transporting VIP's. Some were taking inventory of new items to go in the home, some moved furniture, some cleaned, some helped in the art tent.

Every few hours we would look at the house or barns and they would look so different than just a few hours ago. Siding or stone had been put on, or windows installed, or pergolas and trees had appeared out of nowhere -- amazing! 

 

              

Hundreds of free meals were provided from area restaurants. This is the volunteer lunch tent.                
                           

Spectators lined the property front day and night.

 

Watch for this episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to air on ABC on a Sunday night in January or February 2008!

 



    

            

 

 

  

         Compleat Restorations drying the 
                  Extreme dream home.

 


Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Sundays, 8/7c on ABC  

 


 

   Our team after working through the night

 

 

 

Compleat Restorations' Chad & Cliff Ellis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jon   House

 

 

 

 

 

  

  Lucy Ellis

 

 

Back at the ranch, Keith and the team went into emergency mode to clean the family's ribbons in one day.

 

 

 


Lauren helped iron the ribbons...

 

 


  and finally the 500+ ribbons were done and returned to the grateful designers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

   Compleat Restorations is  
    also the proud winner of  
        the 2007 National  
          
               Chrysalis  
     Award for Excellence in   
  Residential Restoration!

 

 


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