Press Releases

We were saddened by the news that ABC has cancelled Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Spectrum Building & Restoration was proud to have donated our time and effort into working with EM:HE and it's outstanding staff and crew to help change peoples lives. Our time with both the Oregon School for the Deaf (Season 8) and with the McPhail family (Season 9) was an honored moment in our company's history. Thank you all for helping.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Season 9

Spectrum Building and Restoration will again be featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, on Friday, October 28th helping the "McPhail Family of Medford, Oregon".

On September 10, 2011, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" traveled to Medford, Oregon, to meet the McPhail family. C.J. and Lindsay McPhail decided they wanted to spend their lives helping others. They started the Southern Oregon Chapter of Sparrow Clubs, a non-profit organization, which helps children with medical issues by pairing them with a school which adopts them as their school’s Sparrow.  C.J. found himself speaking to students, businesses, and anyone who would listen about the incredible power Sparrow Clubs gives to both students and Sparrows.

C.J. and Lindsay never imagined though they would one day need the help from the very same organization they devoted so much of their time to. Soon after moving to Portland and running a chapter there, their oldest son Sawyer was diagnosed with a form of Autism and their second oldest son Thatcher began to start showing signs of Autism as well. With their children regressing, the family moved back to Medford to live on a 50-acre family property next to Lindsay's parents.
 

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Season 8

Spectrum Building and Restoration was featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, on Sunday, helping the "Oregon School for the Deaf".

On September 6, 2010, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" traveled to Salem, Oregon, to meet the students at the Oregon School for the Deaf (OSD), a residential school for deaf and hard of hearing students known throughout the state for its curriculum in American Sign Language. The students learned that OSD was the recipient of a makeover during their back-to-school picnic when they saw an airplane pulling a 5000 square foot banner overhead greeting them with the message: "Good Morning, Oregon School for the Deaf!"

The funds from OSD's annual Nightmare Factory, a spine tingling haunted house held for two weeks leading up to and including Halloween night in the basement of the boys' dormitory, go a long way toward generating much-needed income for the 140-year-old financially-strapped school, a place which students consider their second home. The 12,000 square foot basement where the Nightmare Factory is usually held has become frightfully unsafe.

The EMHE design team had just seven days to make the OSD basement safe again and tricking it out in a scary and spectacular way for the annual Nightmare Factory. The improvements they could make would surely help increase OSD's fundraising revenue for years to come.

The Starkey Hearing Foundation sponsored over 100 students and parents on a trip to their facility in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, while "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" team leader Ty Pennington, designers Michael Moloney, Paige Hemmis, John Littlefield, local builder Rich Duncan Construction, and community volunteers rebuild the structure.