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February 25, 2008

The Silvas are in their new home

WARWICK -- The Silvas are in their new house.

Unlike the spontaneous image one gets watching the moment during the ABC episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, it is a more choreographed sight in person.

Between 3:30 and 4 pm, Kenny and Doreen Silva and their children arrived at their new three-times-as-big house on the site where the Extreme Makeover crew knocked the old one down last week.

The Silvas walked up to the house, with the show's cameras capturing them, but could not go in at first. Then cameramen went around to the back of the house and got inside and positioned. The Silvas stepped back from the house and then approached the door again and went inside where cameras were now ready to capture that image.

A man in a black cowboy hat and with red earphones led the large crowd amassed outside the home in cheers. While at the doorway to their new home, the Silvas spokes with show host Ty Pennington, but you could not hear what they were saying.

Before the big reveal, as it's known, the Silva family had been sitting in a limousine for a half-hour or more, just around the corner from where finishing touches were being put on their new, three-times-as-big home.

That's the word from an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew member to media gathered outside the home on Yucatan Drive -- in the same spot where the Extreme Makeover crew knocked the old one down last week -- around 2 p.m. But in the half-hour or so leading up to about 3:15 p.m., a mattress was delivered for a race car-shaped bed that had been brought in.

The Silvas returned from Florida yesterday, then were put up in a hotel room so that today's surprising sight would be preserved. A needy family is selected for each episode of the ABC program.

As the big moment neared, the show's host, Ty Pennington, worked the crowd outside the new home.

Read about the dismantling of the house.
-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer Tom Mooney

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