CARVING HEART INTO WOOD 'EXTREME MAKEOVER'

CARPENTER NOT SHY ABOUT HIS EMOTIONS ON THE

SET.
It requires me eight
months to get out in the kitchen. Anyone can do
a lot along with sandpaper and a block associated with wood." Various Other necessities:
circular noticed router (for more complex woodworkers) wood glue wood putty
chalk range screws and nails single-edge razor blade bar regarding soap or
candle for you to lubricate screws steel wool group of straight chisels,
preferably steel blades, plus a sharpening stone DiMeo furthermore recommends
buying wood from a neighborhood lumberyard instead of the home-improvement
warehouse store. Sundays Where: ABC (Channel 7). "It's tough not to. "I'm out about the street 250
days the year. "It's tough not really to." DiMeo as well as the reality present team
make it their own objective to always be able to build a house for a family members in demand for
assistance in just seven
days. So
when I occur home, I wouldn't like to become building. Your fire which claimed their property when
he only agreed to become able to be 5
years old was a life-changing experience.

"It's the morning of day 4 (of a new perform week), and I

don't know how, however overnight we use a house," he says.
"I will never acquire tired of that. If the actual TV were
on, DiMeo likely would be watching Norm Abram sling equipment in "This
Old House" or even "The New Yankee Workshop."

"One in the things that taught me is (that) material things

are useless," he says. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer (5 -- 6 -- color) no

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EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION When: eight p.m. Your show that was conceived in 2003 as
"a bunch of
people acquiring together as well as arguing about design," in his words, is
now a lot more concerning the emotive again story in which explains for you to viewers why a
particular family ended up being chosen from among the 7,000 applications
"EM:HE" receives each along with every week.

Then the actual contractor the particular loved ones hired to rebuild your burned house
went in strike, forcing DiMeo's father to adopt more than the task while
holding down two jobs.

DiMeo says he feels fortunate being a new section of "Extreme

Makeover" from now within his life, as opposed to when he had been too
young to appreciate the experience.

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He smiles as well as looks about him: "No garage, zero pool and
certainly zero yard. Sure, the episodes are usually riddled together with product placement
messages
given as a swap for free appliances along with materials, nevertheless "at the
end involving this year, 25 individuals who does certainly not possess a home, get a
home," he says. In Which will never, ever cease to
amaze me."

"I said, you've got the wrong guy here. A Person may spend a little more, nevertheless the wood's
going
to always be dry," he says. and he thinks a amount of gadgets are overrated.
"I've by no means discovered a new studfinder in which worked. "The three
things we wanted had been a garage therefore I could construct things, a pool because
this is Southern California plus a yard for that dogs."

"This is actually seven days of improv," he says, explaining why

he chooses not necessarily to understand about the family members your team will most likely be
helping until
he is actually on his way for the home to satisfy them.

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'Extreme Makeover: House Edition' carpenter Paul DiMeo has it
nailed (2 -- 4 -- color) "People say, 'You're the
crier,'" Paul DiMeo, master carpenter in ABC's
"Extreme Makeover: House Edition," says inside his Artist Hills
home. And Also sometimes his emotions get the better of him if the new
homes are usually revealed to families, such as the Llanes loved ones in

Bergenfield, N.J., higher than left. I don't like

things with batteries." -- V.K.

DiMeo's live-in-the-moment perspective, and therefore they reflect his

extra effort to find out such a youngster truly likes, even when it means
tossing out the particular profile the actual producers provide.

Such an insane undertaking is not something DiMeo recommends, even

though it's how he earns his paycheck.

In the initial season associated with "EM:HE," the actual show's crew
remodeled several houses. A New cordless drill.
What makes DiMeo tick can be evident all through his as well as the girl own home -- any 1926
Spanish home using arches everywhere, dense stucco walls, leaded panes
and darkish wood beams -- which he and also Kelly share together with assorted elderly
pets.

He particularly likes the particular public service component -- those stories

that inspire viewers to complete great deeds like committing to be an organ
donor. So, whom safer to inquire this: Precisely what resources should any homeowner
have if he as well as she wants to construct something, not merely help make repairs?
"There tend to be 3 things that are generally crucial when you're
building, and my dad taught me this in 5 years old: Plumb, straight and
level. "I hate to say this, but you're much more apt to
find better help. But, "It so comes about when I open up his drawer, he offers within there
some pressed leaves or perhaps something different which catches my eye that says this

is where this kid's passion is," he says.

Paul DiMeo may write a magazine someday. And I Also want to

see what Norm's built."

DiMeo, 49, is indeed moved by the means your display pays it forward --
helping a new cancer in the breast patient that functions like a tireless fundraiser and
educator for your illness, for instance -- that it's fairly clear
he'd be considered a fan even when he weren't about the show.

"There's this home which includes to get built-in seven days.

So all those stuff that produce a Tennessee Williams play this kind of wonderful
play tend to be truly exactly the actual same stuff that make our week this sort of wonderful
week. "There's reality TV regarding you."

"I would do whatever I could to end up being able to help, whether or not it had been learning
what a new Phillips screwdriver was to hand it in order to him or pretending like I
was sawing," he recalls.

Byline: Valerie Kuklenski

Behind enormous iron gates may be the living area using a table that
seats 16 -- just right for that kinds associated with sprawling dinners they will enjoy
hosting.

That's not to claim that DiMeo's tendency to become able to shed tears
is histrionics. New episodes resume March 25.

"Not how to build a house inside seven days!" he exclaims

during an interview throughout his Hollywood Hills home.

"My wife features a set of things I haven't done," DiMeo

sheepishly admits. you get these conflicts, you have all these things which you have
to get completed on this quantity associated with time. I want to become playing
music and also studying along with catching up on the new Bob Dylan CD. "I was lucky that I
learned which at a
very early get older -- don't get also mounted on anything that
doesn't breathe since it may be gone inside an instant."

DiMeo's vivid childhood memories contain his Italian

grandfather performing operas around the residence and also sharing a little bathroom
with 4 siblings. It's a new cliff down to Barham (Boulevard)."
That track record details may state that the 6-year-old boy likes
cars. It will take me 6 weeks to create a
bookshelf." However following consulting with his wife, Kelly, DiMeo agreed
to give it any try.

He recalls sitting quietly during his audition, the bit overwhelmed

by lead carpenter Ty Pennington's substantial energy, and then heading for
the door when he learned the particular objective would have been to design after which renovate
or develop a house inside a week's time.

A master carpenter on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home

Edition," DiMeo acted, built theatrical sets as well as labored as a

carpenter inside Ny Metropolis before the http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Carpenter producers

of the hit reality show
found him.

"This is our initial house," he says. That's your enjoyable involving it."
His very own wish list

Why he cries

The rooms he builds for kids in "EM:HE" draw on

DiMeo's digs

TOOLBOX MUST-HAVES Paul DiMeo may wax poetic in regards in order to a glorious
hand-rubbed French polish on a cherry dresser, or perhaps the curves and
carvings regarding furniture within the Getty center that most visitors breeze
right past. "A hammer. He doesn't know but what
it will be about, nevertheless he can easily say along with certainty exactly what it won't be.

In your family room is a gleaming Dobro guitar, a quantity of pieces of

art developed by their own friends plus a rustic aspect table Paul whipped up in
a day when these were entertaining and required a server. This kind of season, twenty regarding its
25 projects get called
for total demolition as well as new construction.

It ended up being his carpentry skills that brought him for the interest of
the producers -- his r(hrt)sum(hrt) consists of woodworking inside the restored

Aaron Burr home within Ny -- but it's his qualifications as a new possible actor
that really makes him shine.

"People say, 'You're the particular crier,'" DiMeo

says. below left, DiMeo consults with lead
carpenter Ty Pennington on an additional "Extreme Makeover"
rebuilding project. Sandpaper. To Become Able To note that family's confront when
they move in which bus (and reveal the actual finished home) as well as recognize an individual had
a
small part in that -- to me that's the identical thing as when the
audience laughs regarding something an individual do upon stage."
. Thus you may find three certain equipment that should end up being in
everyone's box: a plumb bob, any degree and a square," he says.
But that isn't all. your hand resources --
screw-drivers, things such as that