Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (TV Series) The Tutwiler Family (2009) User Reviews

These homes are often a curse not a blessing

[ZaFeesh · 3/10 · 22 August 2022]

Speaking as someone who personally knows the family in this episode, a lot of what you see in here is staged and not real. The construction on this house was rushed and done in a week, and the quality reflects that. The house had so many issues from foundation to poor wiring, to a leaky roof. Some of the beautiful looking fixtures on the walls were not actually installed, just glued or taped there long enough to film the scene. The people from the show may of had good intent, but they also mainly are doing this for their own benefit. They build normal, middle class people these huge luxurious houses without any thought as to whether they can afford the taxes and whatnot on them. And a number of the houses they build are done with a very poor quality and are falling apart in a few years. The family in this episode was treated very unfairly by the people of this town, people thought they were entitled to just walk into the house and see it whenever they want because it was on TV, and not giving any thought or care as to the fact that it is someone's private dwelling. So with people becoming angry at being politely told that they cannot just drop by whenever they want and with the house pretty much falling apart after a few years the family was forced to sell it. Which just brought even more unfair anger from the other people in town, who thought the family was being ungrateful. Well they were grateful to the people who built it...at first, but then realized all they cared about was filming their show and not actually making a good quality, practical home for the family to live in, so that realization stung a little. Plus people thinking they could just walk through the front door of someone's private home just because it was on TV and then acting like the family is being rude when they ask them to leave, I mean come on people, the father and husband is a war hero for crying out loud, show some respect. In the end this "reality" series is just as fake as everything on TV, do not always believe what you see on screen, this is not the only house from this show to be sold because of poor quality and being too lavish for a normal family to afford.