Cleaning up Hawaii’s Messiest House
Clean House host Niecy Nash rolls up her sleeves and unclutters a Niu Valley family’s once-cramped home. Hawaii time. The Hawaii episode featuring the Jones family from Niu Valley airs June 3.
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Clean House host Niecy Nash rolls up her sleeves and unclutters a Niu Valley family’s once-cramped home
Clean House host Niecy Nash arrived in Honolulu this past January to help a Niu Valley family clean their house.
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Not your typical trip to Hawaii, but it wasn’t all work and no fun. Nash was able to sneak away for some fun in the sun.
“I went surfing for the first time,” she says. “I went with some cast members and friends, and it was fantastic. I felt like Gidget.”
Clean House, the Style Network’s No. 1 show in its seventh season, has hit the road in search of the messiest home in the country as part of a seven-episode event that started last Wednesday and continues at 7 tonight (May 27) Hawaii time. The Hawaii episode featuring the Jones family from Niu Valley airs June 3.
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During their week on Oahu the Clean House team consisting of Nash, interior design guru Mark Brunetz, yard sale diva Trish Suhr and new addition, go-to guy Eugene Long dug their way through cluttered rooms and organized a giant public yard sale with proceeds matched by the show going toward that much-needed home makeover.
Through this experience, the Jones ohana - Aina Jones, her children Janie Jones, Thomas Purkiss and Ben Purkiss, and mother Dorothy Kangas - discover some of the root causes of their clutter and share with the public what most people would never want exposed: a messy house.
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“Between the time I accepted the show and the time they actually came, I thought about cancelling three or four times,” admits Jones. “Just putting it out there for people to see ... it’s a pride thing.
“But being who I am and having no shame, as my mother says, I was able to humble myself to say I need help. Until you do that you’re never going to get help. You’re never going to change.”
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Jones, a single mother of three who was working at least two jobs at a time but was recently laid off, admits that the production of the show was extremely tiring and even frustrating at times.
However, she admits the rooms in her house would not look the way they do now if Clean House had not showed up at her door.
“I’ve been trying to clean, and every time I tried it would get worse,” she explains. “My thought was to start in my room and push everything to the family room and end in the family room.
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“But it didn’t work. I’ve been trying that for a year and a half. I would get started and get halfway through my room and it would get cluttered again. It was a never-ending cycle.”
On Clean House, the episode featuring the Jones home is described as a multi-generational family overcome by rooms stuffed with one daughter’s clutter and junk, leading to friction between mother and daughter.
Jones, who attended Punahou School and graduated from Kalani High in 1983, grew up in the house she lives in today and says her family, particularly her mom who owns the house, often grumbles about the mess.
“I’m scared to watch the
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