
“I don’t think we’ve ever met a family that loved and truly cared for each other like the Woffords,” Pennington said. Ty Pennington, the carpenter and longtime host of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” said this week that he and his fellow castmates and production crew were so impressed with the Wofford family, who still send him Christmas cards that he pins to his fridge each year. The house received a radical makever by the design team from the ABC-TV program “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” (Robert Benson/U-T File) Both parts of the Makeover special can be found on Youtube: Part 1 and Part 2.īrian Wofford waves to a large crowd gathered outside his home shortly after seeing his remade home for the first time on June 30, 2004. Producers knew the touching story would be ratings gold, so they expanded it into a two-part episode to open the series’ second season and then revisited the family a year later for a reunion special. Before the remodel, the children slept in bunkbeds, with the four girls sharing one bedroom and the four boys in the garage. In just four days, the TV production crew, a local contractor and an army of community volunteers transformed the Woffords’ aging 1,200-square-foot home into a luxurious, two-story, 4,300-square-foot mini-mansion.


26 of that year, America was introduced to widower Brian Wofford and his eight children ages 6 to 18, who were chosen by ABC television producers for what would become one of the most-watched and most-popular episodes of the top-rated series “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” If you were a TV watcher in 2004, chances are you remember the Wofford family of Encinitas.
