Second Extreme Makeover House In NJ
From the NY Times:
A Home Where the Walls Have Ears
"FOR the second "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" episode in New Jersey in a month, ABC-TV producers found another family with extreme difficulties and another builder willing to go to extreme lengths to provide a new house within seven days — this time, with an extreme helping of high technology."
"At their new home in Bergenfield, the Llanes family will live like the Jetsons. Its features will permit them to talk to wall monitors throughout the home to ask questions that can be looked up on the Internet and receive spoken answers, or to adjust the temperature or run the vacuum with a spoken command. Four family members are blind or nearly so, and they will all be able to operate the household systems."
"Another family member is deaf, and he will be able to operate all household systems by keypad and will have the advantage of vibrating alarms."
"For an edition of the Sunday night "Extreme Makeover" show planned for this summer, the production hired the Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, who is deaf, as a guest host, and recruited Pinnacle Homes, based in Chatham, to run the construction project."
"Pinnacle brought in a total of 3,000 workers — including its own employees, subcontractors and associated businesses — to demolish the Llanes home at 114 New Bridge Road and then speedily rebuild it with what Pinnacle executives described as "probably the most technology in a single home in the country.""
A Home Where the Walls Have Ears
"FOR the second "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" episode in New Jersey in a month, ABC-TV producers found another family with extreme difficulties and another builder willing to go to extreme lengths to provide a new house within seven days — this time, with an extreme helping of high technology."
"At their new home in Bergenfield, the Llanes family will live like the Jetsons. Its features will permit them to talk to wall monitors throughout the home to ask questions that can be looked up on the Internet and receive spoken answers, or to adjust the temperature or run the vacuum with a spoken command. Four family members are blind or nearly so, and they will all be able to operate the household systems."
"Another family member is deaf, and he will be able to operate all household systems by keypad and will have the advantage of vibrating alarms."
"For an edition of the Sunday night "Extreme Makeover" show planned for this summer, the production hired the Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, who is deaf, as a guest host, and recruited Pinnacle Homes, based in Chatham, to run the construction project."
"Pinnacle brought in a total of 3,000 workers — including its own employees, subcontractors and associated businesses — to demolish the Llanes home at 114 New Bridge Road and then speedily rebuild it with what Pinnacle executives described as "probably the most technology in a single home in the country.""
3 Comments:
Didn't they do an 'extreme makeover' in Harrison NJ a few weeks go? Missed that show.
They should "Extreme Makeover" Harrison.
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