TV's original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.
House Doctor is a television programme, originally broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK. Each week, the House Doctor - Californian real-estate stylist, Ann Maurice - helps UK home-owners sell their houses with her industry know-how and style tips. The popularity of the show has lent the word "house doctoring" to the British English lexicon, which is similar to the American term home staging. This program is now shown in many countries around the globe, which is broadening the use and familiarity of this term.
The crew at This Old House take on some pretty big projects, which means they can only work on one or two houses a year. But homeowners have a virtual truckload of questions on smaller projects, and the This Old House crew is ready to answer. Ask This Old House solves the steady stream of home improvement problems faced by viewers - and the crew even makes house calls!
Couples compete against each other to renovate houses and sell them at auction for the highest price.
Knock First is an American reality television series in which an adolescent is chosen for a total room makeover by the Knock First crew. The first series aired starting in the fall of 2003 on ABC Family.
The premise of the show was to shape the room in which the teenager lives into a space that represents them better. Teenagers who had been living in the same room since they were toddlers are able to redesign the room according to their desires.
The series included four designers: Taniya Nayak, John Gidding, Kathy Kuo, Shane Booth, and two carpenters: Carrie Roy, Andy Hampton.
The first season of Knock First centered mainly around teenagers in and around the Northeast, whereas the second season expanded to homes in California, to a slightly older audience.
The show theme for the first two seasons was titled " I Am", and was written and produced by Widelife, also creators of the theme for Bravo's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and performed by Faith Trent.
The show was redesigned for its third season and now places more responsibility for the completion of the project on the recipient.
Three couples are pitted against each other in a 13-week home remodeling competition that will ultimately result in one couple keeping the deed to their project home.
Our House is a British Entertainment television programme. Originally broadcast on UKTV Style, it is a show which more thoroughly follows the DIY show fad of the late 1990s.
The object of the show is to take a dilapidated house and completely do it up into a "dream" house. The show claims to "bring together everything you need to know about creating your own dream home under one roof - expert advice, step-by-step DIY guides, tricks of the trade".
A step-by-step guide to creating the perfect home, in which a 1950's run-down three-bedroom house in Bexley, Kent is renovated from scratch.
The show has a central presenter in Andrea McLean, and a series of experts who offer step-by-step advice and insider knowledge on DIY.
An ambitious group of eight amateur home remodelers team up to renovate an amazing old house one room at a time. For the next eight weeks, these creative competitors will live in and work together on the house, one room at a time. Each week, they'll compete and collaborate on a different room. When it's all over, one of them will win the keys to the house!
National Open House is a popular, ongoing series that compares and contrasts what kind of home you can get for your money in cities all over the U.S. Each episode guides you through 12 homes, without you ever having to leave your couch! So, step inside for a grand tour of homes valued from $100,000… all the way up to seven figures. Real estate experts add city-by-city insight into the market, and homeowners offer up stories about buying, upgrading, decorating, and renovating to make a home their own... or to sell for bigger bucks!
Hosted by Kelli Kirkland Powers, "Takeover My Makeover" rescues homeowners who are in the midst of home remodels and need help. Designers Frank Fontana, Kelli Ellis and Valerie Bickford make up the rest of the rescue crew. With a budget of $2,000, the team helps homeowners successfully complete their original visions for the projects. Among the tasks the design team tackles are remodeling a family room to look like a New England beach cottage and giving a couple a bedroom with a 1920s Hollywood theme.
Color Splash is a television show on the U.S. cable network HGTV, hosted by David Bromstad.
The series was created for Bromstad after winning season one of HGTV Design Star. It debuted March 19, 2007, on HGTV. The show focuses on transforming rooms by dramatic uses of color.
The show also features color specialist and carpenter Danielle Hirsch, who debuted on HGTV's Design Remix starring Karen McAloon.
Color Splash has relocated from San Francisco to Miami, with new episodes which premiered in the summer of 2010.
After the show ended, David Bromstad moved on to mentoring and presenting on HGTV Design Star.
When a kitchen is so dysfunctional and ugly that every night is take-out, Spice Up My Kitchen steps in to cook up a hot new space. Designer Lauren Lake and her carpenter duo, Jeff Devlin and Mark McGraw, take kitchens that the homeowners think are outdated or ugly, tear them down and rebuild them from scratch -- providing the homeowners with brand-new kitchens.
Designer Lauren Lake presents the homeowners with two design plans based on their budget and wish list. The homeowners choose a plan then before they know it, their old kitchen is transformed into a delicious new space.
Hollywood Residential is an American comedy television series created by and starring Adam Paul. It was originally broadcast on the Starz network in the United States.
Paul plays Tony King, an aspiring actor who had come up with an idea for a reality show in the style of This Old House in which each episode focused on his making improvements to the home of a Hollywood celebrity. Each episode featured a celebrity playing himself or herself.
Recurring themes include Tony's incompetence, his obsession with his ex-wife, and his simultaneous jealousy of and attraction for his co-host, Lila.
Tony's ex-wife Rachael was played by Rachael Harris. Adam Paul and Rachael Harris were married in real life and they divorced soon after the initial broadcast of Hollywood Residential.
Granite countertops or a custom, mosaic backsplash? Hardwood floors or stone tiles? We are bombarded with so many beautiful home renovation ideas, not only is it difficult to decide what we want, but it's hard to determine which choices provide the greatest return on investment. Bang For Your Buck has the concrete answers on remodeling value and how to get the most out of any renovation budget. In each episode, three homeowners from the same city renovate the same room of the house with the same budget. After the renovation, experts determine the value of each home, dramatically revealing whose remodeling choices were good investment decisions.
Property Ladder is the original British version of the television series Property Ladder. Hosted by Sarah Beeny, it follows the journey of amateur property developers as they set out to make a life changing profit from renovating challenging houses.
The show underwent a change in format during 2004 and now features two developments per episode rather than one.
In early 2009, Channel 4 announced that a new series was to be shown, starting on 9 June, it is the first to be filmed in a struggling market and has been re-titled Property Snakes and Ladders.
Presented by George Clarke, this series travels up and down the UK to new locations, new restorations and amazing stories of people who have gone to extraordinary lengths to build their dream homes.
Help! My House is Falling Down is a Channel 4 show hosted by Sarah Beeny. She and her team of experts travel around Britain looking for homes that need urgent repair. The show dispenses advice on what constitutes a minor or major repair, and follows the work done.
The show first aired on 10 August 2010, and saw Sarah Beeny visit six residences around Britain. In episode one, a couple were desperate to save their 250 year old cottage in Northampton from woodworm, erosion, flooding and brick-eating bees. The second episode involved Sarah rescuing an Essex home from sludge, sewage, rats and black mould. Sarah headed to Hull for the third episode in which troublesome tree roots caused massive cracking to internal walls of a beautiful Victorian property. In episode four, a young couple from Brighton battled with disintegrating walls and chronic damp. Fareham played host to episode five, and Sarah attempted to rescue a house that was sinking into the ground. Add to that a failing roof, shifting floors and sewage problems, and this 16 room Georgian house proves to be a very large challenge. In the final episode of the season, Sarah helps a couple in Staines who returned from their honeymoon to find burst pipes and extreme flooding.
