Last night's season finale of Desperate Housewives was pretty intense, but I wish I had tuned in to ABC earlier, to witness the finale of Extreme Makeover: Home Editon as well.
Why? Not only did the Turner family from Irvington, NJ score a pinball machine, indoor basketball game, SkeeBall machine, and arcade racing game in the childrens' bedrooms, but all of the family members received products donated by NVIDIA.
Extreme Makeover chose to build the Turner's a new home not only because Beverly, a 54-year old mother suffers from myasthenia gravis--a neuromuscular disease--and raises 18 children with special needs, but also because their house burned down in a fire, causing them to be homeless.
NVIDIA donated and installed:
-2 custom-built NVIDIA SLI-ready desktop PCs with wide-screen flat panel monitors for the teenaged boys' room.
-a networked color printer, digital camera, and NVIDIA-based laptop computers, preloaded with educational, productivity, and entertainment-oriented software.
-a high-speed wireless network to access the Internet in any part of the home.
At least the children can grow up to be as geeky as we are! Now that's a happy ending.
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May 22, 2006 1:17 PM
That entertainment wall is crazy-I mean absolutely loony. I mean, look at all of the speakers in that wall!
May 22, 2006 1:53 PM
I know, it's nuts!! Some of the ideas the designers come up with for these families' homes are better than what I see in magazines of celebs' homes!! You should check out the photo gallery on the Extreme Makeover site of the rest of the Turner family house. One room is decorated with basketball jerseys; even a race car for a bed! And the bathrooms are to die for.
May 23, 2006 12:49 PM
I use to really like this show the first season it was one. this is when they simply remodeld the home for some down and out family that needed to catch a break. But it became very clear very early that they show was attempting to out do themselves with every episode and pretty soon they were just flatting houses and rebuilding them. What they are doing is great and the people they are doing it for are very deserving familys but if they cut back on the way over the top stuff and concentrated on helpping more people up on their feet I think that would make the show better. The only reason (I think) most people watch this show is to see how the show can out do themselves again. I hope the show realizes soon that maybe we could help more people with more realistic outcomes then going over the top insane on the rebuilds. I'm done and I'm getting off my soapbox now. Thanks