An Icelandic family living in Denmark has had a sudden change to a recent run of terrible luck. The four-member family decided to apply for the show after a flood ruined their basement.

The Westfjords news site BB.is reported earlier this month that the family was successful in their application and that the transformation was going well. The show was aired on Denmark’s Kanal 4- television station this week.

Mother of two Sandra Maria Arnardottir told BB.is that while the family were away in Iceland this summer, the cellar of their house in Copenhagen flooded, severely damaging many of their possessions and forcing the family to stay with friends and in hotels. It was in a hotel room that they saw a commercial for the show and decided to apply.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition is called “Den Vrede Tomrer” (or The Angry Carpenter) in Denmark and is presented by Jens Anderson.

Pictures from the house’s truly beautiful transformation can be seen on the Kanal 4- website here. “It’s just unbelievable how much they have done in such a short time,” Arnardottir told BB.is. “They have really saved us, because it would have taken us many months to do what they have done in three-and-a-half days.”