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Summer’s winding down and that bums me out a little. But, I actually look forward to autumn because I love the changing colors in the fall. It also means college football. And tailgating! One other thing about fall I love: that's when our new season of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition begins on ABC. I hope you'll be watching on September 27 when we premiere our seventh season with a very special guest. When I met Victor Marerro, he was a single father trying to keep his five sons away from the drugs andcrime in their New Jersey neighborhood. To keep them safe, he’d keep them inside, renting movies and playing games. That was the inspiration for my special project on this show. I designed a lounge where the family can hang out, relax, and have fun. I called it the lion’s den and it was part of the new home we built for the family in the town of Pensauken, New Jersey. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at how this colorful entertainment room came together.   With the right basic pieces, you can mix up the look of any room to match your own personal style. For this dining room, I started with my Costa Del Mar furniture from Sears, but then swapped out paint colors and accessories to create three very different designs. Which one is your favorite? Click to vote on your favorite style. You’ve probably read suggestions on how you can reduce your impact on the environment and even save money. On Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, we do our best to use green building practices when designing and constructing the homes. This includes choosing alternative energy sources, recycled building materials, better insulation, and energy-saving appliances to cut utility costs. Join me for a look at some of our best ideas.

Who Would not Want Ty in their Living Room?

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From Publishers Weekly
If you want to inject light, energy, and optimism into your life, making over your home—or even just a single room—is a good place to start, maintains Ty Pennington, the spiky-haired host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and designer of a home goods line for Sears. With that credo in mind, Pennington sets out to help average homeowners redesign their home—and presumably their life—one room at a time. The book focuses on the three high-impact areas of the house: the bedrooms, living spaces and work spaces, and includes lists and special sections such as Balancing a Room with Art and Big Ideas for Small Spaces. The text relies heavily on personal stories and design experiences from the families that have appeared on his show. In the end, Pennington, with his off-the-wall personality, provides a solid and basic design manual. (Sept.)
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Product Description
BRING TY PENNINGTON, THE HOST OF EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, INTO YOUR HOME AND MAKE YOUR DESIGN DREAMS BECOME REALITY.

Ty Pennington and the millions of people who watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition know that you can not only transform a home in seven days, you can transform someone's life. If he could, Ty would renovate every home in America, but even he doesn't have that much energy! So he's written Good Design Can Change Your Life: Beautiful Rooms, Inspiring Stories and filled the book with proof that you don't need a bulldozer and a million bucks to realize your dreams.

Focusing on the three most important parts of your home -- sleeping spaces, living spaces, and working spaces -- Ty offers low-cost, high-impact ideas for every budget. You'll learn how to express your personality and your passions in your design and how to get the most out of small spaces and limited time. Whether you want to create a welcoming living room that helps you connect with friends and family, a restful bedroom that lets you face the day energized and optimistic, or a streamlined home office that keeps you productive, Ty has some great ideas to share. From the elegant to the funky, the whimsical to the restful; from walls, floors, and lighting to storage, wallpaper, and fabric -- it's all here, infused with Ty's vitality and great style, along with the emotional stories of the people who changed his life as much as the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew changed theirs.

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Good Design Can Change Your Life: Beautiful Rooms, Inspiring Stories