Wallet Pop Interview With Paul – October Paul DiMeo is the staff carpenter on ABC’s long-running tearjerker real estate hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and he knows a little something about building cool stuff in a crunch. For seven seasons now, he’s swept into the lives of needy or deserving American families and granted them the gift of their lives: a whole new house in a week. This Sunday, DiMeo and the crew on the bus pull into Texas, where they help a family who moved into a fixer-upper, intending to renovate it, when disaster struck. Unable to afford a change, they were stuck with a real estate lemon. […]
Lena, Illinois
September 20, 2009 by
Flying back to LA after bringing the Stott family back to their new home. It’s a beautiful farmhouse out on Route 20 outside of Lena, Illinois. Lena is a small farming town about 2 hours west of Chicago and its beautiful. Farm after farm with some growing corn, some growing soy. The one right across the highway from our build was a dairy farm. Adam the dairy farmer gave me a tour. It was very cool. Saw big cows, little cows, farm cats, and all kinds of animals. I think I would like to be a farmer when I grow up. This is a special story about a woman needing […]
Prince George County, MD
September 8, 2009 by
Had a great week in Prince George’s County, Maryland building a house for the Tripp family and a school in the northeast section of Washington D.C. This is to date the largest build we have done. The Tripp’s house was about 2800 sq ft. and the school was 6200 sq ft. So a grand total of the two was about 9000 sq ft. In the future I would just want to be part of one of them. Each build, the house and the school deserve complete devotion. It just spreads you to thin. That aside let me tell you about the school. It’s called the “Fishing School” yet it has […]
Prom Rewind, Savannah College of Art and Design, March 2009
May 16, 2009 by
“Because prom is often one’s first defining fashion moment, our fashion students thought it would be fun to ask today’s style makers to look back and critique their prom look. Surprisingly–or perhaps not–our poll reported many top fashionistas to be self-proclaimed ‘fashion don’ts’ in high school,” said Anthony Miller, chair of the SCAD fashion department. Here’s what they said: Paul DiMeo Designer, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” “I have very fond memories of my prom. Led Zeppelin was the music of choice and “Stairway to Heaven” was our prom song. But it was 1976; you can just imagine the fashions…I wore a tux with tails. The tux was beige with chocolate […]
THAT’S A WRAP ON SEASON 6
April 15, 2009 by
THAT’S A WRAP ON SEASON 6! WOW! HOW TIME FLIES. WE FINISHED OUR 25TH HOME OF THE SEASON IN INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA AND AS I SIT ON MY PORCH IN LOS ANGELES, CA. WATCHING THE HUMMINGBIRDS GORGE THEMSELVES ON THE LIQUID SUGAR WE REFILL DAILY I REALIZE ONCE AGAIN IT HAS BEEN SOMETIME SINCE I LAST WROTE TO YOU ALL. SO TO RECAP, IT WAS A GREAT YEAR. A YEAR ALL ABOUT HEROES AND THE WORK THAT THEY DO TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. TO ALL OF YOU THAT WORE A BLUE SHIRT AND VOLUNTEERED YOUR TIME AND YOUR PRODUCTS I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH. IT’S VERY HARD IN […]
Paul DiMeo while best known as the carpenter with attitude on ABC Television’s two-time Emmy winning Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, is also an established actor, a man’s man and the first to cry on his hit show. 