Debbie Travis' Facelift is a home improvement realitytelevision show produced in Canada for Home & Garden Television. It is hosted by interior designerDebbie Travis, and is based out of Montreal, Quebec. Home Improvement was a American television sitcom series that starred Tim Allen as Tim Taylor. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Home & Garden Television, better known as HGTV, is a cable television network in the U.S. and Canada. ... Interior design is a multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. ... This article needs cleanup. ...
The show's format is that of a surprise renovation; a family member or loved one contacts the show to arrange a 'facelift' of a part of the home for the unsuspecting target. By taking advantage of the target's absence (or arranging a pretense for it), the 'Facelift team' moves in for the duration to renovate as quickly as possible. Much of the show's drama is based arount time and budget constraints in completing the job before the target returns, and upon the reaction of the target once they see the completed work.
The personalities of members of the team have become well-known to regular viewers, along with such trademarks as the "Sivart van" (an old-style delivery truck labeled sivart, 'Travis' spelled in reverse), which the team arrives in; Debbie's reveal of a possibly-controversial design to skeptical family members; and the 'facelift book', a small scrapbook presented to the target after the renovation is revealed, showing what they missed during their absence. Making scrapbooks is a hobby relating to pasting newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, usually personal, or other memorabilia into custom-decorated albums, or scrapbooks. ...