Building a Family's Dreams Together
Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition continue work on Austin Family's Home

Austin, TX - December 15, 2006

It's Day #3 in the construction of the O'Donnell family's new North Austin home, and the round-the-clock work goes on as scheduled. Today's work will include the completion of the flooring and tiling, as well as all of the interior painting. Crews will also be busy installing the cabinets and all of the interior doors and fixtures later this afternoon. Work inside is scheduled to finish up tonight, ensuring the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition design team has enough time to finish all the furnishings, decoration and special features before Sunday.

But just as importantly, the effort continues to raise enough money to pay off the family's mortgage.

A major factor in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's choice for this special project was the O'Donnell family's overdue mortgage. In fact, when Jimmy Jacobs and the show's cast surprised the O'Donnell's last Sunday morning, the bank was within just 30 days of foreclosure. So a major part of this Extreme Makeover project has been to help raise enough money to pay off the $140,000 that remains on the original home's mortgage.

So far, fundraising and benefit efforts have helped raise more than $90,000 for the O'Donnell family's payment, but there's still plenty to go. Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes has set up a donation drive to continue raising the money needed for this cause. Checks can be dropped off at the build site check-in tent or sent to Celebration Church, Box 249, Georgetown, TX 78626. The check should include the notation "Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes - Project 415."

Yesterday, the work crews completed the home's exterior, with the shingles, siding and stucco. With interior walls in place, the painters began texturing walls and prepping for colors. With the final touches of painting and flooring going in today, the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition designers will have all day and night Saturday to finish the home's furnishing and decorating, as well as all the special design features included to assist in the children's treatments.

The O'Donnell's will return Sunday from a weeklong trip to a camp for autistic children in Crested Butte, Montana. The grand unveiling ceremony is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, from 1pm to 3pm.

For daily updates and photos from the jobsite, check out Jimmy Jacobs' special Extreme Makeover: Home Edition website: www.jacobshomes.com/extreme.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition airs on ABC TV on Sundays at 8/7c.

About Jimmy Jacobs
Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes is a unique collection of skilled professionals with diverse expertise who are committed to maximizing your homebuilding experience. Jacobs founded the company in 1988 with a simple "builder for life" philosophy and with a strong desire to return to his hometown of Georgetown, TX. The operations began with building high quality custom designed homes on individual sites located around the Georgetown area. Today Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes specializes in community land development, single-family construction, and age-restricted retirement home communities for Active Adults throughout Georgetown and the surrounding areas.

About Extreme Makeover
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which has won back-to-back Emmy Awards as Best Reality Program (non-competitive), is in its 4th season on ABC.  The program is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding.  Denise Cramsey is the executive producer; and David Goldberg is the president of Endemol USA.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/index.html

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