Excessive Makeover: Dwelling Version, the well-known dwelling makeover present from the early 2000s, is again and greater than ever in a brand new reboot. The primary episode premiered January 2 and featured a deserving household from proper right here Texas — particularly, the Austin suburb of Hutto. It is now accessible for streaming on Hulu.
Identical to the unique sequence, this reboot options one household per episode. These households are typically pillars of their communities, typically giving again however needing some assist themselves. They’ve both nominated themselves or have been nominated by their group. As soon as the household is chosen and the cameras begin rolling, the crew, together with new hosts Clea Shearer and Joanna Templin from The Dwelling Edit, reveals up on the household dwelling to get a great understanding of what they want.
When the household returns simply 5 days later, they arrive again to a very new dwelling. On this season, it’s genuinely a brand new dwelling; not only a renovated model of their previous one.
The debut episode options Gail Warren and her three youngsters, Lathan, Taylyn, and Zoey; her mother, Lillie; and household canine. Warren and her total household lived in a house in Cedar Park in the beginning of this episode, the place they have been fairly actually on prime of one another. They have been sharing rooms and overwhelmed with stuff.
In 2021, Warren’s husband and the kids’s dad, Fred, was misplaced to COVID-19. Since then, life had turn into overwhelming and issues — particularly Fred’s issues — have been onerous to let go of. Enter the Excessive Makeover crew.
The household and crew rejoice the brand new home.Excessive Makeover: Dwelling Version/Fb
Fairly than demo the Warren household’s dwelling in Cedar Park, the Excessive Makeover crew constructed a wholly new dwelling for the household in Hutto, Texas, in a Taylor Morrison group. That they had assist from builder Taylor Morrison, and inbuilt a group of different Taylor Morrison properties.
“Years in the past we lived in Hutto,” says Warren. “So it is like coming full circle.” Hutto is the place the household’s church and group is. The truth is, Fred was as soon as a pastor at Little Ebenezer Baptist Church years in the past.
Whereas the house was being constructed, hosts Shearer and Templin guided the household by way of a technique of going by way of all of their belongings. Every little thing the household owned was specified by an enormous warehouse so they might correctly see all of it. Collectively they combed by way of all of it, merchandise by merchandise, labelling every as “maintain” or “do away with.” In an emotional scene, Warren made the choice to lastly half with the bag of garments that her late husband walked into the hospital with three years in the past.
“That bag… That was my breakthrough second,” she says, tearing up. “Now these are tears of pleasure, as a result of… Every single day I might stroll by that bag. And when she took that bag away, it was as if she simply took the entire thing away. All of that weight. It was my greatest second, ever.”
All the technique of this present offered the Warren household with a brand new dwelling, sure; however due to moments like this, and due to what this household was really grieving and transferring by way of, Warren jokes that it was extra akin to remedy than the rest.
After simply 5 days of this emotional expertise, the Warren household was despatched to their new dwelling in Hutto. All the crew gathered outdoors, a large bus blocking the view of the house. Identical to the traditional Excessive Makeover, all the crew chanted collectively, “Transfer that bus!” and the brand new dwelling was revealed.
Exterior of the Warren household’s new Hutto dwelling. Photograph courtesy of Taylor Morrison
After many joyful tears, the household rushed into their new area to discover. Except for it being aesthetically beautiful, the two-story dwelling has a bed room for everybody, and options a number of completely personalized items designed for the Warren household. And let’s not neglect due to the hosts being from The Dwelling Edit, this home is extra organized than a navy trunk.
When requested if, greater than a yr later, the home continues to be as organized, Warren laughs.
“Momma runs a decent ship. The home continues to be the identical… Properly,” she provides, “The one factor that may be a little completely different is the actual vegetation. As a result of I haven’t got that present. Out of all of the vegetation, there’s one plant that is nonetheless alive.”
Talyn’s bed room within the new Hutto dwelling. Photograph courtesy of Taylor Morrison
Within the early 2000s, this mega-hit present confronted some scrutiny as a result of after the cameras stopped rolling, householders struggled to keep up the elevated funds on issues like taxes, water, and electrical energy. That is one purpose why this time round, the present teamed up with Taylor Morrison, one of many largest homebuilders and builders within the nation.
Taylor Morrison Austin division president April Whitaker says teaming up with the homebuilder makes issues extra inexpensive for the household in a number of other ways.
“The properties we construct [in the show] are designed to fulfill the household’s wants,” Whitaker says. “We use a few of our tried-and-true ground plans, that are very useful. And there are ongoing upkeep prices with getting a model new home, however we have been capable of present a lump sum to every household to assist them get launched. Actually set them up for his or her new starting.”
Grandma Lillie’s bed room within the new Hutto dwelling. Photograph courtesy of Taylor Morrison
Extra particularly, in accordance with Warren, “Taylor Morrison was capable of offset our taxes for this new dwelling. In order that has helped tremendously.” Moreover, Taylor Morrison made every dwelling vitality environment friendly and as inexpensive as attainable in its very design.
“My electrical invoice was $160,” says Warren. For reference, this house is about 2,700 sq. toes.
“They actually make certain coming into this, it will not be a burden afterward,” Warren says. “Actually life altering from the underside of my coronary heart.”
Excessive Makeover Dwelling Version might be watched stay on ABC on Thursdays at 7 pm CST, on demand at abc.com, or streamed on Hulu.
