'Makeover' house has roof, but no Pennington
By late afternoon Tuesday the siding was up, the roof was on and the Ty Pennington watch was officially over on Platte Avenue in north Lincoln.
Word was out on the street: Pennington, the spiky-haired star of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” had left town.
Kansas, maybe, said one of the dozens of spectators watching the 4,000-square-foot English Tudor go up just down the block.
“We heard he was in Illinois,” said Andi Wernke.
He’s coming back tomorrow, claimed her friend Amy Cassner.
“And he’ll be here for the rest of the week.”
Duane Hartman of Hartland Homes, the local construction company in charge of the build, confirmed that Pennington had indeed left the state to feel the love at another EHMO site.
ABC has two production crews, he said. Pennington and company land and do a “door knock” and spend a day or two filming and working, then fly off to do a “move that bus” scene, before returning to the original site.
“They go back and forth.”
Brenda Farrington, a local media coordinator, said Pennington was in Chicago Tuesday and would return later in the week.
Hartman, on the other hand, had left the home-in-the-making for just three hours since Monday.
He figured by early morning Wednesday volunteer workers would have the plumbing, electrical work, heating and air-conditioning in and be at work installing kitchen cabinets and wood trim in the six-bedroom, six-bathroom house.
In the meantime, stone went up on a chimney for the outdoor fireplace, a La Paz Mexican Restaurant van drove up with dinner and an inflatable Dairy Queen ice cream cone mascot wandered the busy, busy street.
Well, at least for a few hours. Around 4 p.m. the cone’s handler called it quits.
She called out to the bouncy mascot walking down the sidewalk behind her.
“Joe, let’s go deflate you.”
Reach Cindy Lange-Kubick at 473-7218 or clangekubick@journalstar.com
Word was out on the street: Pennington, the spiky-haired star of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” had left town.
Kansas, maybe, said one of the dozens of spectators watching the 4,000-square-foot English Tudor go up just down the block.
“We heard he was in Illinois,” said Andi Wernke.
He’s coming back tomorrow, claimed her friend Amy Cassner.
“And he’ll be here for the rest of the week.”
Duane Hartman of Hartland Homes, the local construction company in charge of the build, confirmed that Pennington had indeed left the state to feel the love at another EHMO site.
ABC has two production crews, he said. Pennington and company land and do a “door knock” and spend a day or two filming and working, then fly off to do a “move that bus” scene, before returning to the original site.
“They go back and forth.”
Brenda Farrington, a local media coordinator, said Pennington was in Chicago Tuesday and would return later in the week.
Hartman, on the other hand, had left the home-in-the-making for just three hours since Monday.
He figured by early morning Wednesday volunteer workers would have the plumbing, electrical work, heating and air-conditioning in and be at work installing kitchen cabinets and wood trim in the six-bedroom, six-bathroom house.
In the meantime, stone went up on a chimney for the outdoor fireplace, a La Paz Mexican Restaurant van drove up with dinner and an inflatable Dairy Queen ice cream cone mascot wandered the busy, busy street.
Well, at least for a few hours. Around 4 p.m. the cone’s handler called it quits.
She called out to the bouncy mascot walking down the sidewalk behind her.
“Joe, let’s go deflate you.”
Reach Cindy Lange-Kubick at 473-7218 or clangekubick@journalstar.com
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