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When I came back from traveling, I returned to both construction and graphic design and worked for a while on movie sets (you can actually catch me in the credits for the Nicolas Cage film Leaving Las Vegas). I was once again living in Atlanta and renovating a warehouse I’d bought with my brother, when I went on an audition for a cable show. The premise was that two neighbors would swap houses while we invaded and made over their homes. The producers of the show, Trading Spaces, were impressed when I showed them the simple trick of using a speed square to cut straight 2 x 4s and I thought, “Wow, you guys have never seen a speed square before? You definitely need a carpenter:’ and for four years, I was it.
It was the perfect job for me. I got to build things and be my off-the-wall, wiseass self in front of the camera. Every week, though, we’d wait for the family to come home to see if they were going to like what we did to their house. And sometimes they definitely did not-in fact; some people came home and cried. The shock value was a lot of fun, but I also thought it would be great to do a show where we do something for people who need help and who actually like what we do. I thought, “Why not cry for the right reason?” Enter Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The producers asked me, “Do you think we can build a house in seven days?” and I said, “No, but it would definitely be good television to try.” And so we did, and it’s been an absolutely amazing ride.
During that first episode, when an entire community, not to mention a couple hundred construction workers, five designers, and a production staff came together xiii result, her bedroom had gotten incredibly cluttered. The bookshelves were so packed up that she was stacking books on the floor. There were also folders everywhere. Her bedroom had started functioning as an office. My first step in designing her room was to move all the folders and many of the books out and re- create the room for the purpose it was intended: to be a place where she could relax and have some private time.