Have your in-laws seen every episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?” Did Uncle Bob work for Centex? Does Aunt Jane think Ty Pennington is cuter than puppies?

If so, their next visit is your chance to be a hero. The Phoenix Bed and Breakfast, a prominent part of the 2004 Extreme Home Makeover for Kingston’s Dore family, is now open and taking reservations. In the last eight months the inn has attracted guests from Hansville to British Columbia. While most of the guests are curious to see the home that EHM built, the very first paying guests weren’t aware of the Phoenix’s TV show fame, according to proprietor Roseanne Dore.

“They had no idea,” said Dore. “Usually at least one of the guests knows. Most of the bookings have been as a surprise for the spouse. Sometimes it’s the husband surprising the wife, sometimes it’s the other way around.”

For $175 per night, a couple can take their choice of the Log Room with its rustic cabin ambience and white cedar interior, or the Contemporary Room with memory foam mattress and satellite TV. Each room has a full private bath, wireless Internet and CD player. A big country breakfast is part of the package. In the morning guests are invited to come down to the kitchen for a cup of coffee and a chat with their hostess while she prepares a breakfast of baked omelet, bacon or sausage, and roasted red potatoes.

With its opening last May, the much anticipated B&B became Dore’s first business venture. In November 2004, the Extreme Team descended on Kingston to build a luxury home for Dore and her three daughters, who were living in a utility shed with no plumbing, electricity or water after their home burned earlier in the year. The bed-and-breakfast wing was the special project of EHM project leader, Ty Pennington. The Phoenix is now the only EHM project to be open to the public for overnight stays.

Some of the EHM stars have kept in touch with Dore, including Ed Sanders who filmed a follow-up last February, staying in the Log Room and enjoying a homemade breakfast. Pennington remembered the family in December with a Christmas card. The card, typically unconventional for the high-energy icon, showed Pennington and his girlfriend mugging for the camera underwater with a caption that reads: “Don’t get in over your head!” Dore plans to invite the couple to drop by for a weekend getaway.

In consideration of guests who are fans of EHM, Dore is hoping to fill the foyer between the two rooms with collages of the home’s construction and pictures of the celebrities at work. The show aired in the United States on Jan. 9, 2005. It was shown a year later in Europe and has only recently been seen in Iraq.

“We’ve just had a couple e-mails from soldiers in Iraq,” noted Dore. “One of them wants to bring his bride here next December. We’ve heard from people as far away as Italy, England and Sweden.”

Rosanne isn’t the only member of the Dore family to launch a new career. Her daughter Sarah, 24, recently graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles. She reports that Sarah has had her first audition and is working on an independent film for the Los Angeles Film Festival. A AMDA scholarship was provided by Centex, builder of the Dore’s new home.

Back here in Kitsap County, Dore continues to be a local celebrity.

“I’m amazed at how people recognize us. It’s wonderful that they remember and come up to us,” said Dore. “I still can’t believe it. We’re the same family; we still get up early to feed the farm animals.”

Check out the Phoenix Bed and Breakfast online www.thephoenixbedandbreakfast.com.