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STYLE MY ROOM MAKEOVER SLIDESHOW
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How it begins: In March, Chris and Jo Ann Agena of Moanalua Valley edge out 1,400 other contestants to win the $30,000 Style My Room Makeover Contest.
How it begins: In March, Chris and Jo Ann Agena of Moanalua Valley edge out 1,400 other contestants to win the $30,000 Style My Room Makeover Contest.
The $30,000 prize includes flooring, furniture, window treatments, lighting, contracting, painting and other goods and services donated by Honolulu’s leading home-industry companies.
This living room needs help: Cathy organizes a contractors’ confab to assess the challenges and work out the Agenas’ goals.
Three days after their win is announced in The Honolulu Advertiser, the Agena family—minus the two youngest kids, who are sick—is introduced on KITV4’s morning show.
Step 1: As Cathy has taught him, Chris collects inspiration photos to guide the Agenas’ vision for their dream living room in his Deluxe Style Kit workbook.
With this kind of energy, Sarah, 3, Noah, 5, Matthew, 8 and Caleb, 10 (counterclockwise from left) will need to be out of the house when videotaping for the TV show begins.
To the rescue! Uncle and Grandma arrive to pick up the kids.
On-location videotaping begins. Confessionals, where Chris and Jo Ann tell their thoughts directly to the camera, takes place on apple crates outside the house.
Shooting usually starts around 8:30 in the morning and doesn’t wrap up until late in the day. Chris joins the film crew for a pizza and yogurt lunch in his garage.
Step 2: The living room is cleared and prepped for construction.
Step 3: Key to the Agenas’ goal of a stylish, contemporary look is drywalling over the tongue-and-groove walls typical of many older homes in Hawaii. When the walls have been studded out to accommodate the drywall, electrical is roughed in, and niches are built in for the Agenas’ two big-screen TVs.
Step 4: Flooring helps set the style and color scheme of a room, and should be one of the first steps of a remodel. At American Carpet One, the Agenas choose a luxury dark wood-patterned vinyl that will stand up to four small kids.
The faded green carpet on the stairs won’t match the new flooring: It’s torn out so the same look will extend up the stairs.
The exposed tongue-and-groove ceiling also won’t match the smooth new walls. The Agenas opt to extend the drywall over the ceiling as well.
Step 5: Videotaping continues on location at Honolulu Lights, where Chris and Jo Ann choose sleek, contemporary replacements for their fluorescent ceiling fixtures. The camera and lighting crew have to be extra-careful in this showroom!
Cathy’s treat: Specialties from Chin’s Chinese restaurant next door keep the energy going through another long shooting day.
Step 6: Now that they know their style and color choices and have their flooring, the Agenas are ready to decide on new furniture. Videotaping moves to HomeWorld and C.S. Wo…
… where RSVPstyle’s Lissa, who coordinates shooting and production along with Kara Wagner and Melissa Shipman, finds plenty of chances to get off her feet.
The furniture segment makes for a very long day. Director James Brennan, a veteran on-air personality as host of Oceanic 16’s Little Grass Shack, finds ways to entertain himself.
Step 7: New flooring is in, drywall put up, electrical placements ready, TV niches done. Cathy has suggested custom-built valances and floating shelves to carry the contemporary style and warm neutral colors throughout the room, helping to unify it.
Step 8: The new window treatments will need to complement the rest of the room, add texturizing pattern to break up wide swaths of solid color in the sofas, floor and walls, and mask an entire wall of jalousie windows.
Step 9: The Agenas choose a mocha color for their accent wall, and agree to Cathy’s suggestion of a hint of orange to add brightness and freshness to a room dominated by neutral colors.
Step 10: This custom piece of glass art by Al Ness and Nick Ybl is the focal point the Agenas have never had. Best of all, it’s functional: The glass etching is really a pair of doors hung from the floating shelf above; they can slide open to reveal the other TV.
Step 11: The new furniture is placed according to the Agenas’ floor plan. James demonstrates the use of one accessory as cameraman/editor Dean Sensui and lighting specialist Richard Lowther wait between scenes.
Jo Ann loved her pre-shooting cosmetic touchups from Cathy.
The finishing touch: RSVPstyle’s gift to the Agenas is a set of framed, pop art-style photos of their kids.
The photos are hung above the beam on the kids’ side of the living room. Everyone climbs the stairs to admire the effect.
The final shooting day wraps up only seven weeks after the journey begins. It’s been a full-bore, morning-to-night team effort—but totally worth it.
The Agenas have come to love the six-man film crew. After weeks of invasion by them, teams of contractors and RSVPstyle, they have their dream living room to themselves—but with four kids running around, we know things will still be crazy!
How it ends.
Keep an eye out for our Makeover Style Tip Series, right here on this site…
…We’ll have step-by-step details on elements of the makeover.
A huge mahalo to all!
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MAKEOVER STYLE TIP SERIESThe Beam
The Dilemma: A huge beam jutting almost 2 feet from the ceiling and cutting across the entire 16 foot 10 inch width of the living room. This beam was a visual stop sign, the first thing you noticed when you walked in the front door, and a structural element that could not be removed.
The Solution?
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