Erin Cebula
Call it destiny and hard work or passion with a purpose, but either way switch on your TV and you’ll find Erin Cebula. What started as a high school video assignment has turned into a dynamic and exciting career on the little big screen- with Erin as your host. With sparkle and genuine curiosity, Erin entertains, engages and explores…

In 2000 Erin became Global BC’s foremost Entertainment Reporter. It was an opportunity to host and edit-the perfect fit for the multi-skilled BCIT TV grad. This led to on camera gigs with the Canuck’s Pay Per-View broadcast, Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival and Tourism Vancouver. This former farm girl and undercover jock was also voted one of TV Week’s 10 Most Beautiful People in 2003.

In 2002 Erin beat out thousands of hopefuls to become the co-host of Urban Rush, Vancouver’s popular Entertainment Variety Show. During those 400 hours of live TV she charmed chefs, rockers and everyone in between - and has a Leo nod as “Best Host” to prove it. When the pop culture program “Entertainment Tonight Canada” launched in 2005, Erin was a natural fit and she continues to be their go-to reporter on the West Coast.

When she’s not trading beauty secrets with Queen Latifa, whipping up a killer curry, or carving up the mountain, Erin devotes her time to honoring BC’s heroes. HGTV’s “Makeover Wish” is an exciting adventure for Erin, and a bold step into the rooms and lives of the show’s remarkable subjects!

Ami McKay
Creating spaces that celebrate not merely where people live, but who they are is what designer Ami McKay's thrives on. Helping others discover themselves, and then designing and building their dream homes, their sanctuaries, is the key to her personalized designs. These designs not only reflect the client's needs, but also incorporate Ami's philosophy for creating healthy and sustainable spaces. "What could be more exhilarating than helping people explore their innermost passions, uncover and celebrate who they are, discover their dreams and make their perfect space a reality?"

Inspired at an early age by an Emily Carr biography, she was "determined to live an exciting life." She's traveled extensively, lived in a small Indian village in rural Bihar for four months, subsisted in a forest station's fire watch tower, and moved to London to study abroad before settling into the large, multi-cultural city of Vancouver nestling against the raw, untamed wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.

In 2003, Ami was one of two lead interior designers for the B.C. Home & Garden's celebrated "Home In The Dome," with over 80,000 people walking through this unique water themed concrete home.

In 2006, Ami began designing on Makeover Wish, a television series that rewards local British Columbia heroes with a $25 000 home makeover. Currently filming its second season, the show airs on HGTV.

In 2007, Ami launched her Pure line of sustainable and healthy soft home furnishings. This is a long time dream of Ami's to create furniture that is as healthy as it is beautiful, using natural materials, FSC certified wood, and latex rubber. This line is one of the purest furniture lines available in Canada.

Whether for herself, her clients, or a nationwide audience, her goal has always been the same: to discover, design and develop the resident's vision of a perfect space into their personal sanctuary.
Inspired as a young woman by early 20th century Canadian artist, Emily Carr; Ami has been “determined to live an exciting life. She has traveled extensively, lived in a small Indian village in rural Bihar, subsisted in a mountainous forest station’s fire watch tower, and moved to London to study abroad before settling into Vancouver.
Ami’s studies have included theatre and costume design at The University of British Columbia and interior design at BCIT in Vancouver, Humber College in Toronto and at the National Design Institute in Nottingham, U.K. She has also studied Feng Shui in England and Canada.

Whether for herself, her clients or a nationwide audience, her goal has always been the same: to discover, design and develop each client’s personal sanctuary.

Keith Chalmers
Keith Chalmers began designing when he was no more than two years old. “I drew a cityscape on my bedroom wall putting my hands through the bars of my crib. It had houses and trees and even a train running through it. My mother would not wash it off because it was so detailed,” he recalls, chuckling.

Keith’s innate passion for architecture and design eventually led him to answer an ad for Toronto’s now celebrated design firm Yabu Pushelberg where he landed a job as a draftsman. “My first day there I sat at my desk and looked at what I was drawing and it made complete sense to me. It felt natural, I’d found my home,” he says. Keith went on to complete the four-year interior design program at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. Since then, he’s worked for well-known Toronto interior design firms II BY IV and Munge//Leung. Keith’s has worked on the design of many of Toronto’s high-end retail spaces, as well as some of cities best-known nightclubs and restaurants. But his love of working with people and his belief in interior design as “human architecture” eventually made him want to try his hand at residential design.

Though he tends to be a perfectionist, Keith relies on his good sense of humour and open nature to connect to the people that matter the most in his work – his clients. “Interior design is the architecture we all live with and within. My main objective as a designer is to connect with my client. I need to be part artist, and part psychologist when I’m working on a new space,” he says. “I find out as much as I can about how my client uses a space, as well as their personal style and aesthetic. Good design should reflect the client and their needs more than the designer. I am there to make sure it works both functionally and aesthetically.”
Keith currently lives in the scenic beauty of Vancouver’s West End, and works for internationally renowned design firm, Ledingham Design Consultants.

He says he’s thrilled with the opportunity to use his talents to help better the lives of well-deserving people as part of the Makeover Wish team. “Doing what I love for people who wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to have a space completely re-designed just for them? What could be better than that!” he says.