The Indianapolis family whose Eastside home was replaced with a showcase house in one week by a reality TV show got the official walk-through of the building Monday.

The family of Bernard McFarland has been living in the 2,500-square-foot home in the 2300 block of North Oxford Street since April 5 and still is moving in some personal items.

The home had been furnished and decorated by ABC-TV’s "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,‘’ but it didn’t immediately include family possessions, said Mary Catherine Grau of Estridge builders.

The home is complete, she said. Construction began March 29 and was finished by April 4, when ABC did some interior filming. The episode is scheduled to air May 17.

Estridge also normally does a walk-through of its homes before the family moves in, but that didn’t fit with ABC’s shooting schedule, the company said.

In an interview Monday with NBC affiliate WTHR (Channel 13), The Indianapolis Star’s newsgathering partner, McFarland said the house "needs work.’’

“Yes, the house is pretty when you look at it, but it was built in seven days, and they know it needs work to get it right.’’ It was unclear whether he was referring to ABC or to Estridge.

The home includes a 900-square-foot library and resource center for McFarland’s neighborhood mentoring program, the Pack House 2000 — one of the reasons he caught the eye of ABC and earned the makeover — as well as a basketball court and putting green.

On Monday, the lawn around the house was manicured and flowers were planted generously in the ground and in pots.

“A lot of this shrubbery, a lot of this stuff that you see, it won’t be like this for my family. It worked for the show. We have to make it work for our family,‘’ he said in the WTHR interview. "The TV show and cameras have gone. We have to make this property work for us as a family.’’

He also said he had "been under a lot of strain and stress,’’ but declined to elaborate.

McFarland also praised the 5,000 volunteers and 200 companies for all of the rebuilding work accomplished in the surrounding community, including planting 1,000 trees, touching up 22 nearby homes and laying new gravel on five miles of alley.

Contacted on vacation in Florida, builder Paul Estridge said he is "not aware’’ of any problems with the house.

“I’m completely of the opinion that he’s excited, and we are, too,’’ Estridge said.

The company also released a statement.

“The Estridge Companies is very proud of the quality of work of the McFarland home and the Pack House 2000 center. While accomplished within a condensed schedule, the McFarland home was built to the same quality standards as every Estridge home is built,’’ the statement said.

Several representatives for ABC-TV did not return calls to The Star.