Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the famous home makeover show from the early 2000s, is back and bigger than ever in a new reboot. The first episode premiered January 2 and featured a deserving family from right here in the Austin area. It's now available for streaming on Hulu.

Just like the original series, this reboot features one family per episode. These families tend to be pillars of their communities, often giving back but needing some help themselves. They've either nominated themselves or have been nominated by their community. Once the family is chosen and the cameras start rolling, the team, including new hosts Clea Shearer and Joanna Templin from The Home Edit, shows up at the family home to get a good understanding of what they need.

When the family returns just five days later, they come back to a completely new home. In this season, it is genuinely a new home; not just a renovated version of their old one.

The debut episode features Gail Warren and her three children, Lathan, Taylyn, and Zoey; her mom, Lillie; and family dog. Warren and her entire family lived in a home in Cedar Park at the beginning of this episode, where they were quite literally on top of each other. They were sharing rooms and overwhelmed with stuff.

In 2021, Warren's husband and the children's dad, Fred, was lost to COVID-19. Since then, life had become overwhelming and things — especially Fred's things — were hard to let go of. Enter the Extreme Makeover crew.

The family and crew celebrate the new house.Extreme Makeover: Home Edition/Facebook

Rather than demo the Warren family's home in Cedar Park, the Extreme Makeover team built an entirely new home for the family in Hutto, Texas, in a Taylor Morrison community. They had help from builder Taylor Morrison, and built in a community other other Taylor Morrison homes.

"Years ago we lived in Hutto," says Warren. "So it's like coming full circle." Hutto is where the family's church and community is. In fact, Fred was once a pastor at Little Ebenezer Baptist Church years ago.

While the home was being constructed, hosts Shearer and Templin guided the family through a process of going through all of their belongings. Everything the family owned was laid out in a huge warehouse so they could properly see all of it. Together they combed through it all, item by item, labelling each as "keep" or "get rid of." In an emotional scene, Warren made the decision to finally part with the bag of clothes that her late husband walked into the hospital with three years ago.

"That bag... That was my breakthrough moment," she says, tearing up. "Now these are tears of joy, because... Every day I would walk by that bag. And when she took that bag away, it was as if she just took the whole thing away. All of that weight. It was my best moment, ever."

The entire process of this show provided the Warren family with a new home, yes; but because of moments like this, and because of what this family was actually grieving and moving through, Warren jokes that it was more akin to therapy than anything else.

After just five days of this emotional experience, the Warren family was sent to their new home in Hutto. The entire crew gathered outside, a giant bus blocking the view of the home. Just like the classic Extreme Makeover, the entire crew chanted together, "Move that bus!" and the new home was revealed.

Exterior of the Warren family's new Hutto home. Photo courtesy of Taylor Morrison

After many joyful tears, the family rushed into their new space to explore. Aside from it being aesthetically stunning, the two-story home has a bedroom for everyone, and features several totally customized pieces designed for the Warren family. And let's not forget because of the hosts being from The Home Edit, this house is more organized than a military trunk.

When asked if, more than a year later, the house is still as organized, Warren laughs.

"Momma runs a tight ship. The house is still the same... Well," she adds, "The only thing that is a little different is the real plants. Because I don't have that gift. Out of all the plants, there is one plant that's still alive."

Gail's bedroom in the new Hutto home. Photo courtesy of Taylor Morrison

In the early 2000s, this mega-hit show faced some scrutiny because after the cameras stopped rolling, homeowners struggled to maintain the increased payments on things like taxes, water, and electricity. This is one reason why this time around, the show teamed up with Taylor Morrison, one of the largest homebuilders and developers in the country.

Taylor Morrison Austin division president April Whitaker says teaming up with the homebuilder makes things more affordable for the family in a few different ways.

"The homes we build [in the show] are designed to meet the family's needs," Whitaker says. "We use some of our tried-and-true floor plans, which are very functional. And there are ongoing maintenance costs with getting a brand new house, but we were able to provide a lump sum to each family to help them get launched. Really set them up for their new beginning."

Grandma Lillie's bedroom in the new Hutto home. Photo courtesy of Taylor Morrison

More specifically, according to Warren, "Taylor Morrison was able to offset our taxes for this new home. So that has helped tremendously." Additionally, Taylor Morrison made each home energy efficient and as affordable as possible in its very design.

"My electric bill was $160," says Warren. For reference, this home is about 2,700 square feet.

"They really make sure coming into this, it won't be a burden afterward," Warren says. "Truly life changing from the bottom of my heart."

Extreme Makeover Home Edition can be watched live on ABC on Thursdays at 7 pm CST, on demand at abc.com, or streamed on Hulu.