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Archive for September 2008

September 30th, 2008

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Touches Mayberry Homes

 
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 […]

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September 29th, 2008

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - The House is Up

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 […]

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September 28th, 2008

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Demolition Day

By the end of third day of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the Nickless family’s home has been reduced to rubble. Nothing is left of the original house. The demolition crew did such a thorough job that not one brick was left of top of another.
The demolition starts the clock ticking. The crew and volunteers […]

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September 27th, 2008

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Mid-Michigan) - Saturday’s Progress

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 […]

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September 27th, 2008

Mid-Michigan’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - The House

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 […]

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September 27th, 2008

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Mid-Michigan

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 […]

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September 26th, 2008

Finding the Right Tool for Organizing Toys

Ever since I saw this video on organizing kid’s rooms and toys, I’ve been planning to re-do my own system for my kids’ toys. Originally, I wanted to start with this:

Tags: clutter control, home organization, homemaking, housekeeping, Organizing and Clutter Control, organizing toys, toy bin, toy organization

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September 24th, 2008

Wordless Wednesday: Bowl of Summer Tomatoes

Tags: container garden, summer tomatoes, tomato harvest, Wordless Wednesday

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