Category: Extreme Makeover Home Edition

The Oatman-Gaitan Family

29 Jul

The Oatman-Gaitan family was featured on Season 4 of ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition. In 1987 Debbie Oatman became a very nontraditional single mother when she adopted an HIV positive baby. Together they faced an unsympathetic community, discrimination and even death threats. Yet, when she learned that another HIV positive child and his biological brother needed a home, Debbie didn't…

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The Usea Family

29 Jul

The Usea family was featured on Season 5 of ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Brad and Laura Usea were fortunate to have their family survive their first battle with natural disasters when Hurricane Katrina hit, but their home took a nasty beating from the brutal storm. Not only was their home severely damaged, but Brad¹s mother Grace¹s house was completely destroyed…

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The Lutz Family

29 Jul

The Lutz family was featured on Season 8 of ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition.  Unable to have any children of their own, loving couple Grace and John Lutz gave their hearts to 18 adopted kids in all, including seven with Down Syndrome. After the couple passed away, their daughter Kathleen, gladly gave up her career and came home to take…

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The Alure Extreme Story – The Usea Family

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23 Dec

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition debuted its first ever "Coalition of Builders" in 2008. This project involved multiple builders working together on a project... and who better to be a part of that than Alure Home Improvements! The city of Westwego had been hit by a series of hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding. These natural disasters devastated the homes and lives there…

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The Alure Extreme Story – The Oatman-Gaitan Family

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22 Dec

In March of 2007, Alure President Sal Ferro was contacted with a slightly different request from Conrad Ricketts, co-executive producer of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The show had selected a family and had a contractor scheduled to handle the renovations to the home of that family. But the show wanted to go a step further, and also help out a…

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The Alure Extreme Story – The Lutz Family

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24 Oct

On June 20th, 2010 the Lutz Family of East Setauket got a surprise visit they would remember for the rest of their lives. Sitting front row at Yankee Stadium, Kathleen Lutz, along with three of her siblings (Daniel, Timothy and William) were excited to be guests at the NY Mets vs. NY Yankees game. According to a close family friend…

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The Alure Extreme Story – The Arena Family

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24 Oct

As we headed into the Lutz Family build for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last year, our friends at the Long Island Press printed a series of stories re-living each episode and family we helped prior to the Lutz Family. We were inspired to share each piece with you after the Season 9 premiere of Extreme aired on Sunday night. Here…

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The Alure Extreme Story – The Peter Family

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21 Oct

As we headed into the Lutz Family build for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last year, our friends at the Long Island Press printed a series of stories re-living each episode and family we helped prior to the Lutz Family. We were inspired to share each piece with you after the Season 9 premiere of Extreme aired on Sunday night. Here…

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The Alure Extreme Story – The Vitale Family

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17 Oct

As we headed into the Lutz Family build for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last year, our friends at the Long Island Press printed a series of stories re-living each episode and family we helped prior to the Lutz Family. We were inspired to share each piece with you after the Season 9 premiere of Extreme aired on Sunday night. Here…

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