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magazine | Dec 9, 2021 |
The big reveal is everything. Here’s how to nail it

After months (or years) of hard work, it’s finally the moment you and your clients have been waiting for: They get to see their new home. The design process inevitably has ups and downs, but a moving reveal can be the memory that sticks.

On the show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, there’s a climactic scene in each episode where the family waits behind an enormous bus as the show’s host—Ty Pennington in the original, or Jesse Tyler Ferguson in the reboot—builds anticipation in the gathered crowd before unveiling the newly remodeled home. That’s exactly the level of excitement Bartow, Florida–based designer Donyea Tollie is striving for with each and every reveal—and she says that delivering a climactic “Move that bus!” experience is everything her clients are hoping for.

“They watch HGTV and interior design shows, and that’s what it’s all about,” she says. “They’ve done all the hard work [and made] the hard decisions. It’s all come to this moment, and now they actually get to enjoy it. I’ve never done it any other way.”

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