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Barewalls works with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for the Dore episode.

SHARON, MA, January 10, 2005 -- On Sunday, January 9, viewers witnessed how the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team spectacularly renovated the Kingston, Washington home of a widow, Roseanne Dore and her daughters - Jessica, 21, Sarah, 17, and Aariel, 13. The family was dealt a tremendous blow when their home, originally built by Roseanne and her husband, burned to the ground in March 2004. Following the devastating news of the fire, Roseanne found out that their home insurance policy lapsed when their agent retired. The structure was uninhabitable. While figuring out what to do, Roseanne moved her three daughters into a half-built, backyard utility shed that had no plumbing, electricity or running water.

Enter ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. When it came to custom-framed artwork, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition sought out Barewalls. “The design team at Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to Barewalls with a specific request for custom framed prints and we were more than happy to assist,” said Steve Gardner, vice president of sales at Barewalls. “The specific images selected really complement the graphic design theme, the team was looking to achieve for one of the girl’s rooms.”

As with many of the film and television companies Barewalls has worked with, not all of the supplied pieces make it to the final production. Of the five custom-framed pieces supplied for the program, three were selected as a donation to the Kingston community. Daniel Spira, President of Barewalls Interactive Art, suggested those pieces be donated to the local community on behalf of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Barewalls. “We’re very pleased Extreme Makeover: Home Edition took the time to search out a suitable organization for the donation on behalf of the Barewalls Enhancement Foundation.” Spira said. “The foundation has demonstrated our commitment to enhance the educational environment and we’re glad the artwork made it’s way to Kingston Junior High School.” Spira added.

“Barewalls has received many requests to provide custom-framed art work to television and film. While we can’t fulfill all requests, we felt Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was the right vehicle and simply, the right thing to do,” added Spira.

About Barewalls
Conceived in 1996 by its co-founders, Daniel Spira and Lorne Lieberman, and launched in 1997, Barewalls (www.barewalls.com) was the first company to capitalize on the tremendous potential of selling posters and prints online. Today, we offer the fastest, easiest and most affordable way to decorate at home or in the workplace. Visitors to Barewalls can easily browse more than a quarter million posters and prints online to find their favorites -- fine art, photography, movie posters, vintage advertising and more.

About Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Put together one very run-down house, a deserving family, several opinionated designers, seven days and what do you get? The answer is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Produced by ABC-TV, the show features a design team who work their creative magic on the homes. The lives of the lucky families are forever changed when they learn that they have been selected to have their home walls moved, their floors replaced and even their façades radically changed. The result should be a decorator's delight… if it can be done in time.

About the Barewalls Enhancement Foundation
The Barewalls Enhancement Foundation is driven by the philosophy that art not only enhances physical spaces, but also educates the mind and spirit. With this objective, the foundation works to improve physical conditions and enhance the living spaces of therapeutic and educational environments. To date, the foundation has been providing art prints and posters to children’s hospitals and other care facilities in Canada and the U.S. We also provide gift certificates, art prints and posters as fundraising tools for charity auctions and events.
Barewalls is committed to supporting public school art programs by supplying art posters and prints for educational and fundraising purposes. We regularly work with students and educators to furnish classrooms with art to inspire the next generation of artists and art historians.

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