VALENCIA - When David King headed for home from college last month, there was no question he was returning to the family farm.

But while the Penn State graduate was taking a weeklong detour to California before arriving home, his loved ones embarked on what they describe as

"extreme makeover - farm edition."

Armed with ambition, farm mementos and $500, the group transformed a two-room basement into living quarters with a farming theme.

With a degree in agricultural science, King will work as a partner with his father and uncle on Harvest Valley Farms, which grows more than 60 varieties of vegetables

sold to the public onsite.

The idea of the makeover came from David's mom, Kathy, and most of the details of making it a reality came from family friend, Claire Molinaro.

"We implemented the ideas as she thought them up," said Kathy.

The seven-day creation blitz was both a sneak attack and a headlong rush. More than a dozen people worked at top speed.

Making the newly decorated space "adult enough" was a challenge.

There would be "no tractor wallpaper," said Molinaro, who planned to accent a farm theme with industrial touches that a man would find attractive.

To find items with both style and meaning to be used as architectural ornament, Molinaro said they started by touring the farm.

They found corrugated aluminum, remnants of the range coops that had once belonged to Grandpa King. In years past, the chickens had roosted on the very spot David now does. The roof over the hens' heads became the ceiling suspended over David's living room.

Planks, long ago pried from Grandpa Freimuth's barn, freshly reddened, became paneling and a closet door in the living room. A wormy chestnut door was sawed into pieces and reassembled into an entertainment center.

A cable spool became a coffee table. The business ends of old garden hoes were tacked to the wall and entered a second existence as a row of hooks for work clothes.The living room's industrial touches were manifested in lighting fixtures that had once adorned the inside of a walk-in cooler.In the bedroom, an industrial-type, hard-weave carpet goes wall to wall. Existing wood paneling on the upper half of the walls was stripped free of shine and chemically lightened. The lower half of the walls were painted burgundy, while the ceiling took on a creamy coat of beige.To keep with the industrial look, an old, four-drawer file cabinet was painted burgundy and the drawers were labeled with the contents: T-shirts, work shirts and socks.For clothing like jeans, wooden crates, normally used to tote apples and potatoes on the farm, were nailed to the wall."I hate putting clothes away, so this was a very good idea," said David.The new headboard for David's bed is old indeed."It was one side of an orchard bin, 4 feet by 4 feet and falling apart," said Kathy.It had once been part of the orchard equipment from Treesdale Orchard in Mars before the orchard was transformed into an upscale housing development.In a matter of a few days, David's Aunt Anne made a bed quilt and bed skirt from a red plaid flannel.Molinaro made curtains from real burlap for both rooms. The natural colored burlap curtains are hung on metal rods that had a first life as electric fence posts. The rods are anchored to what had once been the insulators from electric fences.The one thing David had mentioned prior to the makeover was that he wanted to make himself a very big desk. He got his wish without having to do the work. Another cast-off door was pressed into use.Family friend John Artzberger emblazoned the farm's name and slogan on one side of the door and sealed the surface to an impervious hard-gloss finish. The glass-like surface is the ample desktop David had wished for.The rolling desk chair has a tractor seat rather than a cushion."The whole deal is beyond words," said David King, who had grappled with issue of living in his parents' home after finishing school. "Part of me wants to stay here and part wants to have my own place. I'm a very independent person."What's he's got now is independence and his place in their place."You'll see me going out that door every morning," said the young farmer, motioning to what had been a basement egress and is now his front door.