LEXINGTON – Nearly 11 weeks after the Creasey family got to see the inside of their new home for the first time – courtesy of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” – now the rest of the country will get a chance.

The episode featuring the building of William and Tricia Creasey’s new home will air at 8 tonight on WXLV-TV, the local ABC affiliate.

“Can’t wait,” says William Creasey. “Can’t wait.”

During a one-week period in mid-November, the “Extreme Makeover” design crew – with a big assist from local builders, contractors and community volunteers – demolished the Creaseys’ dilapidated house on Allred Road and built them a new, more spacious home with lots of bells and whistles.

“Just looking at pictures of the old house sitting there, and now we have this nice, beautiful home, with all the differences from the old house, it’s just amazing,” William says. “They did an amazing job.”

The Creaseys and their three daughters – 13-year-old Brittany and 5-year-old twins Makayla and Makenzie – couldn’t be happier in their new home, according to William, who works in the Guilford County Schools’ technology department.

“Brittany is a teenager, and she has a nice, beautiful room far away from her parents, so she loves it – she spends a lot of time there,” William says with a laugh. “The twins are only 5, so we don’t know how much they comprehend, but they definitely know they’re in a different house and they seem to love the new house.”

The person who has benefited the most from the new home, however, has been Tricia. A teacher at E. Lawson Brown Middle School in Thomasville, Tricia has been battling cancer for three years, and the family’s former home wasn’t exactly conducive for rest and recuperation following her chemotherapy treatments.

“In our old house, we basically had no hallways,” William explains. “Our bedroom was right in the middle of the house, so if the kids needed to go to their bedroom or to the bathroom. they had to go through our bedroom to get there. It was hard for her to get any rest with that constant flow of traffic right past our bed.”

In the new house, the couple’s bedroom is not so central, and Tricia is able simply to shut the door and get all the rest she needs, William says.

In addition, the family’s old house had cracks in the foundation, holes in the floors and walls, and water damage – none of which they could repair because of the costs associated with Tricia’s treatment – so the new home allows them not to worry about having to make any major repairs.

While many folks in the Lexington community got to see the exterior of the new house when it was revealed to the Creaseys on Nov. 17, few have seen the interior – and William isn’t about to spoil the surprise.

“Sorry, but we can’t talk about the inside of the house until the show airs,” he explains.

In the meantime, though, the Creaseys can’t say enough about the community support they’ve been shown in the past few months.

“All those volunteers, they came out to help someone that most of them didn’t even know,” William says. “It’s an amazing thing to see people come together and be as one. We knew we lived in a great community, and this just puts an exclamation point on it.”