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Extreme Makeover To Rebuild Home Damaged By Ike

Kemah family to be featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Houston Business Journal

A Kemah family whose house was severely damaged by Hurricane Ike had their home rebuilt as part of the largest project for national reality television show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

When Melissa and Larry Beach returned to their home in Kemah after evacuating due to Hurricane Ike, they found that their house had been severely damaged by flooding and wind.

High school sweethearts Melissa and Larry Beach have fostered 80 children in their 23 years of marriage.

FEMA gave the family of 15, including 13 children, two trailers for about a year. Since the fall of 2009, the Beaches have been living out of one small trailer in their backyard.

ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and volunteers began the process of building a new home for the Beach family in Kemah on Jan. 7. The reveal of the 6,300-square-foot home took place a week later. The episode featuring the new home will air in March.

The Beach family was nominated for the rebuild project by the Kemah city council, state representatives and local congressmen.

Stafford-based Cosentino, maker of Silestone natural quartz, donated Silestone surface applications to all homes rebuilt as part of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition this season at a value of about $500,000.

Cosentino employees and executives also were personally involved in the buildout of the Beach home.

Blu Shields Construction, a division of Texas City-based Energy Solution Homes, also partnered with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

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