A design competition from executive producer Ellen DeGeneres features contestants trying to win a cash prize by designing a unique piece of furniture with help from an expert carpenter.
My House, Your Money is a Cineflix produced realty reality programme that airs on W Network and HGTV US. My House, Your Money follows young individuals who are the hunt for their first home. However, they turn to family members for financial assistance, in which case, all family members weigh in on what home is best for the young individual.
Decked Out is a Canadian home renovation television series, which airs on HGTV Canada. Hosted by Paul Lafrance, a contractor who owns Cutting Edge Construction and Design in Pickering, Ontario, each episode depicts Lafrance and his team designing and building a unique and dramatic deck for a client.
Prior to launching his own series, Lafrance appeared on several episodes of Breakfast Television and Holmes Inspection.
Lafrance subsequently also launched Deck Wars, a spinoff program in which he moderates a competition between two homeowners each building their own decks.
The Unsellables is a Canadian reality show that debuted on January 1, 2009. The show airs on HGTV. The Unsellables focuses on helping people who have trouble selling their home. There was also a British remake of the series.
Broken House Chronicles is a Canadian television series which premiered in 2001 on HGTV and is produced by Mountain Road Productions.
Re-runs are currently airing on DIY Network Sundays at 6:00 & 6:30PM as well as weekdays at 3:00PM.
Design U is a Canadian television series which premiered on April 4, 2005 on HGTV. Produced by Mountain Road Productions the series takes the design-clueless back to school for a crash course in interior design. After one intense day with a professional designer—learning the ins and outs of design theory—the design student gets to test their newly acquired design savvy during a two-day makeover. With $3000 and a team of renovators at their disposal, the student has to transform one room in their house. At the end, the design professor returns to review the results to see if the student makes the grade.
Curb Appeal is a half-hour TV series that has aired on HGTV in the United States from 2002 to the present, exploring how a house's outside "curb appeal" will be updated. Various hosts over the years, talk the viewer through the planned improvements. Originally the new look was imagined by drawing the proposed changes over a still picture of the exterior but now computer-generated visualizations are created. Changes include painting, landscaping, and fences, as well as pruning or removing overgrown shrubs, and sometimes cutting down good trees.
John Gidding is now the only host and more recent episodes involve multiple homes in an San Francisco Bay Area block, and are titled Curb Appeal. There has also been at least one hour-long Christmas special titled A Very Merry Curb Appeal, with two homes adorned with Christmas decorations.
The Fix is a Canadian reality television series based around a home renovation prank. The series premiered on July 3, 2008, on HGTV. The program is produced by General Purpose Pictures and is hosted by contractors Neil Davies and Jay Purvis. The series also airs on the Fine Living network in the United States.
Creative homeowners are redefining the way homes are built. They thrive on the challenge of finding inexpensive materials and using them in innovative ways to get a high end look.
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!
Neat is a Canadian television series, which airs on HGTV in Canada and formerly on Discovery Home in the United States. Hosted by professional organizer Hellen Buttigieg, Neat is a home improvement series in which Buttigieg helps a person with cluttered living spaces devise solutions to help organize their lives and possessions more effectively.
Designer Superstar Challenge also known simply as Superstar Challenge is a show hosted by Karen Bertelsen on HGTV Canada that has had four seasons. Similar to the American series HGTV Design Star, the show features aspiring interior designers competing in a series of challenges, following which one contestant is named the "design superstar" at the end of the competition.
It is the original "Superstar" themed show on HGTV, and went went on to inspire Handyman Superstar Challenge, Superstar Chef Challenge, and Superstar Hair Challenge.
Sleep On It is a half-hour show that premiered on HGTV on January 1, 2008 at 10 pm. The show will feature families looking to buy a house who get to "try" the house before they make a final decision.
In each episode, the potential buyers will first look at two possible homes. From those two, they will choose one to give a trial run, by living and sleeping in the house for 24 hours, before deciding if they want to buy it.
The show is narrated by Brian Davis.
Designer Guys was a design show on HGTV created by Mary Darling and produced by WestWind Pictures.
The first three seasons were hosted by Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados. After they departed, the next three seasons starred Matt Davis, Allen Chan, and Anwar Mukhayesh.
Designers' Challenge is a show on HGTV in the United States. In each episode, three interior designers make presentations to a homeowner, who chooses one design to use in the house. It is hosted by Chris Harrison.
Landscapers' Challenge is a spin-off that deals with outdoor landscaping instead.