Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (season 4)

Ty and the design team embark on a mission to help a needy family in each of the 50 states, first heading up to North Pole, Alaska to build a new home for a family of 13, A single mother and her 8 children, and her brother and his three children who are living with her so he can be closer to necessary medical treatment. The show replaced their decaying, rundown, 900sq. ft house (which had only one bathroom for 13 people), with a large, comfortable one, with space for the whole family-and a football field! ^{[n 1]}

Ty's Secret Room: A small classroom in the house Design Team: Ty, Ed, Michael, Paige, Paul, and Preston.

The design team is in Hendersonville, Tennessee to rebuild a family's home and make it wheelchair accessible for the mother who became paralyzed while saving her children during a tornado on April 7, 2006.

Ty's Secret Room: Amy & Jerrod's master bedroom Design Team: Ed, Paul, Preston, Tracy, and Ty.

Ty and the design team arrive in Detroit, Michigan to remodel the home for a widow and her six children because they had to move out due to a mold infestation that had killed her husband. The family was sent on vacation to Florida while the design team demolished the farmhouse and began construction of a new house in its place. ^{[n 2]}

Ty's Secret Room: Abigale's room (it was not explained that that was the secret project until after Maryann saw her bedroom, in the final part of the episode)

Ty and the design team arrive in Minot, North Dakota to rebuild the Bliven family's home to accommodate their son, who has cerebral palsy. Tim McGraw makes a special appearance to invite the family to one of his concerts.

Ty's Secret Room: Bill & Michelle's master bedroom Design Team: Eduardo, John, Paige, Paul, and Ty.

Ty and the gang head to Toronto, South Dakota to help a family whose only daughter has already had four open-heart surgeries in twelve years.

Ty's Secret Room: Siehera's guitar-themed room

The design team arrives in Gladbrook, Iowa to rebuild the family's farmhouse after it was burnt down days before Christmas in 2005.

The design team goes to Indiana to repair a 135-year old farmhouse for a family whose matriarch is recovering from breast cancer.

Ty and the design team head to Dundee, Wisconsin to help a family that recently lost their father to skin cancer.

Ty and the design team go to Redondo Beach, California to help a cop mother who was shot in the line of duty and left paralyzed from the waist down. The family is sent to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for vacation while the house is being rebuilt. ^{[n 3][n 1]}

Ty and the design team head to Logan, Utah to help a family (immigrants from Tonga) that lost their father to a heart attack. In addition to a new house, the family (which operated a catering and entertainment business featuring Tongan culture and cuisine) received a new catering truck.

Ty and the design team head to Lincoln, Nebraska to help an engaged couple get married and combine a family of three and a family of four into a family of seven (Described by Ty as "The Modern Day Brady Bunch"). The family will be headed to Paris while the house is being constructed.

Now, the design team heads to Chicago to make a new home for a Latino family of eight whose father and mother help out teens who are involved with drugs and gangs and turns their lives around, after the father did the same thing as a teen. The design team will be the same team featured in the Harrison family episode from the 2005 season-- Ed, Eduardo, Michael, Paige, and of course, Ty.

Ty's Secret Room: 3rd floor music room for the entire family.

Ty and the design team go to Whitehall, Ohio to help the family of Jason Thomas, a man who risked his life to save two officers' lives in the September 11, 2001 attacks. After the attacks, Jason, his wife, their four children, his wife's aunt, and her daughter, left New York and moved to Ohio to put what happened on that day behind them. This 2-hour event aired a week after the Super Bowl. ^{[n 4][n 1]}

Ty's Secret Room: As expected, it was the master bedroom for Jason and Kirsti, his wife.

Ty and the design team visit Raleigh, North Carolina to help a family, William and Linda Faye Riggins, and their three children, whose mother, a schoolteacher, is suffering from arthritis, and whose dad is blind.

Ty's Secret Room: William and Linda's master bedroom.

Ty and the crew head to Austin, Texas to help a family with six kids, five of which are autistic.

Ty's Secret Room: Meaghan's penguin-themed room (Meaghan is the only kid in the family who is not autistic)is the secret project. There is also a trampoline room not shown on the broadcast.

Ty and the design team visit Tampa Bay, Florida to help the Tate family after a plane crashed into their Davis Islands home causing a fire that gutted the home, but left the main structure intact.

Ty and the design team travel down to Waleska, Georgia to help a single mother of two daughters. Two years ago, a fire burned down the home and the only boy in the family, Ransom (a budding architect) was killed in an auto accident, three months later.

Ty's Secret Room: "Miss Faith's" master bedroom, containing a shrine of Ransom.

The team heads to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina builds a new home for a grandmother and her four grandchildren, who live in a ramshackle trailer held together by duct tape.

Ty's Secret Room: Renee's master bedroom

An altruistic nurse and single mother of three has her dilapidated Mississippi home rebuilt by Ty and his team. In addition to receiving a 2007 Ford Edge, the family will also receive a makeover on their garage, having been the winners of a contest that gave away 50 Edges (one for each state).

Ty's Secret Room: Sabrena's master bedroom.

The team heads to Lawton, Oklahoma to help Gene Westbrook, a US soldier who was injured in Iraq (and now uses a wheelchair) when a bomb went off near his tent in 2004. Just two years later, his son, James, and daughter, Katie (plus everyone else, except Elizabeth, who was not with the family at the time of the accident) were injured in a car accident (James uses a wheelchair, and Katie needed extreme surgery to remove one of her kidneys, and worse, Gene suffered broken legs, a stroke, and a bloody mouth, but Peggy survived with minor injuries), leaving only mom, Peggy, and 15-year old Elizabeth as family members without who do not need to use wheelchairs or needing surgery to live. Because 9-year old James is an avid video game fan, he'll appear in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, a new video game developed by Insomniac Games for the PS3, according to an online article. In addition, Ed returned, showing a clip of the serious accident he had in the Thomas family episode.

The team heads further up north to Murfreesboro, Arkansas, where they work on the home of Dennis and Kim Collins and their son Mitchell (who was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was 3). Also in the family are five cousins of Mitchell whose parents were killed in an auto accident.

The team heads north to south-eastern Pennsylvania - this time to help the family of MaryNoel Kilgallon, a divorced mother of four who can't help the financial issues with her house. During the episode she performed in a live stage production of Beauty and the Beast. This made her family and herself very happy.

The team travels southwest to Kansas City, Missouri to help the family of Jesús and Michelle Jacobo, who took in five more kids to add to their four after Michelle's sister verbally and physically abused them. Also in the family is grandpa Ray (on Michelle's side), who lives with them. Not mentioned in the episode (but in an article) is that Michelle is a diabetic.

The team travels to upstate New York to help Debbie Oatman-Gaitan, a single mother who adopted three children, two of whom are HIV positive. They were living in an unsuitable environment, where the foundation of their old home was sinking into the ground. A new recreation center was built, replacing a demolished unused laundry building, at Camp Heartland for children with HIV. ^{[n 1]}

Ty's Secret Room: Debbie's master bedroom

In the first recorded episode of the season, Ty and the crew make their third trip to Arizona. This time they are there to help the family of a boy (Garrett Yazzie) who invented a machine, at the age of 13, to help his family bring water and electricity into their home on a Navajo reservation in a remote part of Arizona near Piñon, Arizona. According to the article, his machine earned him several awards, including one from the Discovery Channel. The house was built using "green technology" (the house features a wind turbine, moving solar panels, and plants atop the roof) and in keeping with Navajo tradition, faces east with the kitchen on the north side of the house (the house was also blessed by one of Garrett's uncles, a Navajo medicine man, prior to move-in).