Harper Family

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That? • Season 1 • Episode 6

About this episode

Viewers will witness how the EM:HE team rebuilt and upgraded a farm and a house in Bakersfield, California for a widow, Jennifer Elcano, and her two young children, Michael, 11, and six-year-old Ashley. Jennifer lost her husband, Glen, in a tragic car accident in 2004. Jennifer and the kids were barely managing the farm on their own and had little time to make repairs to their small 100-year-old farmhouse. The process of their particular makeover is the subject of this episode of ""Extreme Makeover: How'd They Do That?"" As with all of the intense remodeling projects the show undertakes, there is a great deal that goes on that does not make it into the final broadcast. Now viewers can see all of that and more, including: -The story behind how Ty made a functional and stylish office from which Jennifer can run her farm. -How Todd Sweeney, a painter, and his identical twin, contractor Brian Sweeney, create a little bit of mischief as they keep the designers from telling them apart. -The ne