Deserving Design

Open Arms, Open Home

Host Vern Yip transforms a family room and a surprise room for foster parents that helped over 60 children.

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Winning Spirit

Vern designs a kitchen and a surprise space for a cancer survivor that was given months to live.

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Together For Hope

Vern creates a master bedroom and a surprise room for a couple that helps deserving adults and kids.

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Professor of Humanity

Vern designs a living room and a surprise room for a teacher that spends his free time volunteering.

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Moving in with Mother-In-Law

Homeowner Gerri Ard has dedicated her life to teaching at-risk first graders how to read. Host and designer Vern Yip gives her family a long-awaited kitchen and den update.

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Home Cookin' for the Homeless

A single mom of 4 delivers food to the homeless. Vern delivers her a new dining room and a surprise.

Iraqi War Widow

Less than a year ago Jessica lost her husband in Iraq. She found strength participating in a documentary designed to help other military families deal with their grief. She wants her one-year-old son to grow up feeling connected to his father. Vern turns a bland living room into cheerful memory room full of her husband's personality and wit and as a surprise he'll gives BJ's nursery a sophisticated look that will grow right along with him.

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The Winner of a Nationwide Contest Gets a Well-Deserved Holiday Makeover

After a nationwide contest, Vern surprises a very deserving Gloria Bernard with a makeover just in time for the holidays. She has taken in families in need, fed the hungry and made quilts for disaster victims, the homeless and soldiers' families. Vern creates a beautiful kitchen and dining room in French country style for Gloria. And downstairs, her brand new laundry room comes complete with an area perfect for her quilting.

Helping Hand to the World

Host Vern Yip transforms the living room and guest room of a missionary that helps children around the world.

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Teens: Building a Successful Future

Jessica Andrews and Mary-Kate Murray live and work together helping at-risk teens stay on the right track to a successful future. Vern surprises them with a much-needed office and a guest room for out town volunteers.

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Leading the Fight for Fitness

Vern rewards a family that fights childhood obesity with a new office and a special surprise.

Coach of the Year

Yon Struble's young female athletes nominated him for coach of the year because of the life-changing lessons he teaches them both on and off the field. Host Vern Yip designs a new living room, dining area and patio.

A Safe Haven and A Soothing Retreat

The newly married Bookers help families in crisis by temporarily taking in their children and giving them a safe haven. Host Vern Yip gives them a kid-friendly space, as well as a soothing place for themselves in their living room. Then, he surprises them by making over their dining room, too.