Arrow-Straight F. J.® Shutter Components Make Their TV Debut in Shutters Installed on ABC's Hit Show: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," Airing this Sunday

Atlanta, Georgia • March 3, 2005: Fans of Glen Oak's Arrow-Straight F.J.® Shutter Components might be "extremely" interested in watching the next segment of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition which airs this Sunday, March 6 from 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET on the ABC Television Network.

In this week's reality TV episode, the show's design team, led by Ty Penningon, will makeover the Harris Family home in Birmingham, Alabama-creating a spacious dream home that includes plantation shutters built with Glen Oak's Arrow-Straight F.J. components primed with SB43 stain-blocking, anti-fungal primer. Built and installed by The Georgian Plantation Shutter Company (Glen Oak's next door neighbor in a Ball Ground business park near Atlanta, Georgia) the shutters used in the Harris family home makeover feature a full complement of components that are routinely stocked at Glen Oak's Atlanta branch.

A long-time Glen Oak customer, and supplier of high-quality interior and exterior shutters, The Georgian Plantation Shutter Company is a family-business owned by Tim Brenner and Bob Gard and operated by Tim and Ginger Brenner and Colin and Tiffany Rafferty. Both couples traveled to Birmingham, Alabama last weekend to install their interior plantation shutters in the new 4,500- square-foot home contractors constructed with the help of hundreds of workers and volunteers. According to Tim Brenner, flexibility and attention to detail are critical to the success of this massive joint effort. For example, when Brenner discovered that Ty Pennington changed the trim color in the "special room" he created in the Harris house, Brenner had to rush back to Ball Ground to repaint the room's shutters and return to Birmingham to install them-all in one day-the same day the Harris family returned from a Disney World vacation to see their new home.

The family featured in this show is nine-members strong, including a set of 2-year-old sextuplets (four boys and two girls) plus a 9-year-old son. Parents Chris and Diamond Harris learned they were having a total of six babies when they were delivered, at just 26-1/2 weeks. Now active toddlers, these children have the distinction of being America's first-ever surviving set of African American sextuplets.

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