What happens if you take one very run-down home, a deserving cause, several contractors and designers and a few weeks of work? The answer is Omaha Home Makeover, an entirely new trend in home tours that combines the best in home improvement with the best in the human spirit.

Many of us have experienced the opulent luxury found at annual home tour events and marveled at the possibility of new construction design technologies, only to return to our real home disappointed that most of these ideas are out of reach. Welcome to the home tour for the rest of us! The Omaha Home Makeover is an event designed around a traditional split-level home plan and features easily implemented and affordable revisions anyone can apply to their own home.

The mechanism of the project is easy to implement. Sponsors come on board to provide products for the workers. Organizations come on board and donate their services and techniques. The project is coordinated in a way that spectators can come and watch the progress in person or via the website. During the actual home tour period of five days, there is a small fee to tour the home. The fees are then donated to a worthy area charity so everyone wins on this venture.

The house will then be resold at a higher margin of profit and the next home selected so the process can start over.

The evolution of home makeover television shows have proved how popular this trend has become. Home repair super stores are being placed across the country encouraging consumers to