Dolan Family

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That? • Season 1 • Episode 13

About this episode

Viewers will witness how the design team from ""Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"" transformed an 1100-square-foot home of the much loved and hard-working Harvey family from Hastings, Florida (near the Jacksonville/St. Augustine area) into 4300 square-feet of magnificent living space in just seven days. The rebuilding of their home will be the subject of ""Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"". When Willie Harvey was diagnosed with epilepsy, his work as a mechanic and heavy equipment operator -- as well as the repairs he'd been making to the family's 1930s Army barracks home -- came to an abrupt halt. Employers wouldn't hire him for fear of possible seizures, and as a result Willie was forced into unemployment. His wife, Alecia, was working two full-time jobs and putting herself through nursing school to better provide for her husband and their children -- Derrick, 21, Arlayceea, 15, Willie, Jr., 9, Jasmine, 7 -- and Alecia's aunt, Mary McCloud. Still, Willie and Alecia were barely able to make e