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Welcome to TanyaMcqueen.com. This website is designed to give you an up-close and personal view of Tanya McQueen. Many of you have asked, how did Tanya McQueen get where she is today? Here it is in a nutshell….
Tanya McQueen was born and raised in Columbus, Texas — a small town about an hour outside of Houston. She attended local schools before heading to college at Texas A&M. She graduated with a degree in Education and went back to the Columbus area to teach school. Tanya was later elected to the local school board and served several terms. And if you’d told her back then that she’d be designing homes on television, she never would have believed you.
In fact, Tanya’s career began almost by accident. First, she designed and built her own home — working hand-in-hand with architects and contractors. Tanya enjoyed the process so much, she decided to continue. With the help of her cousin, a licensed interior designer, Tanya founded Tattered Hydrangea. The goal was to find “tattered” properties that could be improved with a wave of the magic wand… and lots of hard work.
The Tattered Hydrangeas purchased homes that lacked style, and turned them into jewels – often doing the work themselves. They installed floors and cabinets, hung drywall, and painted. LOTS of painting. And Tanya might still be running Tattered Hydrangea, renovating houses and reselling them to happy buyers.
Except for one videotape that changed everything.
Tanya and her cousin taped one of their Tattered Hydrangea properties and submitted it to the TLC show “Property Ladder.” Producers selected the tape from thousands of applicants, and suddenly a documentary crew was following the Tattered Hydrangeas through a complete renovation. The episode featuring Tanya aired in 2005, and it caught the eye of ABC and the producers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” They were impressed by her personality, poise and unique approach to design — as well as her willingness to get arrested for the sake of design (seriously, check out the “Property Ladder” episode!).
Tanya is now a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ripping down and rebuilding a new home every Sunday night on ABC. It’s really just Tattered Hydrangea — on the most massive scale imaginable! It also allows Tanya to meet amazing families and change their lives, something she feels honored to do. As Tanya says, it’s a privilege to combine her passion for design with her compassion for others.