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Expect many, many of these shows to feature EveryEpisodeEnding with TheReveal, followed by a BigOMG. The initial stages of fixing make liberal use of TrashTheSet. SisterTrope of AHomeownerIsYou, when there's a video game mechanic that allows the player to customize a location.

* ''Series/AskThisOldHouse'': A spinoff ''Series/ThisOldHouse'' which features small-scale home repair and landscaping projects.

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': In [[WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS4E8GoFlipYourself "Go Flip Yourself"]], Laszlo starts watching a ShowWithinAShow called ''Go Flip Yourself'' about home renovations. He even hails it as a masterpiece because the renovators truly understand their trade. Everyone else is of the opinion that ''Go Flip Yourself'' suffers a bad case of StrictlyFormula.

* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'': Parodied in the sketch "Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It". The titular show is clearly ''supposed'' to be in the vein of British versions like ''Location Location Location'', with all the MundaneMadeAwesome that is usually involved... except that everyone involved in the show has clearly realised just how teeth-grindingly mundane the process ''actually'' is and so cannot be bothered to actually inject the awesome. The result is two clearly rather bored men who cannot hide their disinterest and mild resentment at having to make a television on the process of buying a house and fixing it up a bit, and so rush through everything in as quick a dull monotone as can be gotten away with.

* ''Series/HolmesOnHomes'': The adventures of Mike Holmes as he rescues homeowners from poor renovations done by third party contractors.

* ''Series/HomeImprovement': It has a ShowWithinAShow called ''Tool Time'' that is of this kind.
* ''Series/HomeTown2016'': A husband-and-wife duo renovate homes in a small Mississippi town.

* Creator/{{PBS}}: ''Series/FurnitureOnTheMend, Series/FurnitureToGo'', and Series/MenInToolbelts are a trifecta of shows that started on the channel before heading to Creator/{{TLC}}. All are hosted by Joe L'Erario and Ed Feldman and can be described as furniture repair mixed with RapidFireComedy.

[[folder: Do-It-Yourself]]
* ''Series/ThisOldHouse'': The earliest episodes resemble DIY, but it quickly turned into something of a "showcase" program that presented high-end renovations of expensive properties using resources out of the reach of most homeowners.
** ''Series/AskThisOldHouse'': A spinoff of the above, featuring small-scale home repair and landscaping projects.
* ''Series/{{Hometime}}'', hosted by Dean Johnson and a series of female co-hosts, which was intended to be a reaction against the content drift of ''Series/ThisOldHouse'', but which by season 10 or so had run out of new ways to show you how to hang drywall yourself and followed suit, pretty quickly scaling up to building custom homes on vacant lots: something ''well'' beyond the skills of most [=DIYers=]. Acknowledged on the show as being do-it-yourself general contracting.
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'''s ShowWithinAShow, ''Tool Time'', is of this kind.
* ''Series/PAllenSmithsGardenHome''; Smith also hosts short spots on the Weather Channel.
* ''Series/CleanSweep'', a show mostly about organizing.
* ''Series/TheNewYankeeWorkshop'', hosted by Norm Abram focusing on woodworking with power tools.
* ''Series/FurnitureOnTheMend, Series/FurnitureToGo'', and Series/MenInToolbelts: A trifecta of shows that started on PBS before heading to TLC hosted by Joe L'Erario and Ed Feldman. Furniture repair mixed with RapidFireComedy.
* ''Series/TheWoodwrightsShop'', hosted by Roy Underhill focusing on traditional woodworking (generally speaking, no power tools).
* ''Series/HomeAgain'', hosted by Bob Vila after leaving ''This Old House''.
* ''Series/TheVictoryGarden'', running since 1975.
* A rare non-televised example is ''Radio/GardenersQuestionTime'' on BBC Radio 4, which is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A Q&A session with a panel of horticulture experts taking questions from the general public. Recorded in a different part of the UK every week.

[[folder: Game Show-esque]]
* ''Series/WhileYouWereOut''

* ''RockTheBlock'': An HGTV show in which teams of designers and renovators from other HGTV shows compete against each other to remodel identical houses with the goal of adding the most value.
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[[folder: Remodeling]]
* ''Series/ChangingRooms'': British show where two couples each redecorate one room in the other couple's house with the help of design experts.

* ''Series/PropertyBrothers'' - Twin brothers help families renovate run-down homes into dream homes.
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[[folder: Home-shopping]]

[[folder: Flipping]]
* ''Series/FlipOrFlop'': The duo of Tarek and Christina, who started the show as a married couple but are [[WorkingWithTheEx now divorced]], buy rundown homes in Southern California for their "flipping" business -- they renovate and resell the houses with the goal of making a profit on the sale.

[[folder: Others]]
* ''Series/GroundForce'': Best described as "Extreme Makeover: Garden Edition" except British.
* ''Series/LoveItOrListIt'': Families shop for new homes while their current one is being renovated, and must decide at the end of the episode whether to buy a new house or stay in their renovated home.
* ''Series/TradingSpaces'': The American equivalent of ''Changing Rooms''; it could occasionally border on "off the wall" itself depending on which designer a couple was stuck with.

[[folder: Off the wall]]
* ''Series/MonsterHouse'': A SpinOff of ''Series/MonsterGarage'' where parts of a house are [[TrashTheSet very violently demolished]] and transformed into an extreme setting, such as a kitchen into a medieval mead hall.
* ''Series/{{Homewrecker}}'': A subversion courtesy of MTV in which a teenager gets revenge on a friend by having his or her bedroom transformed into an unlivable space resembling the original prank pulled (for example, a prankster who shaved all the body hair off of a sleeping buddy getting his room turned into a pulsing, throbbing cave covered floor to ceiling in hair).
* ''Series/AVeryBradyRenovation'': Some hosts of several HGTV original series team up with ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' cast members to build a real version of the Brady house.
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[[folder: Non-Television]]
* ''VideoGame/HouseFlipper'' is an homage to this sort of show. The game is all about flipping houses (and gardens with the Garden Flipper DLC) but especially the HGTV House Flipper DLC adds new missions that give even more of the feel of this type of show, complete with the dramatic reveal at the end.
* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': In [[WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS4E8GoFlipYourself "Go Flip Yourself"]], Laszlo starts watching a ShowWithinAShow called ''Go Flip Yourself'' about home renovations. He even hails it as a masterpiece because the renovators truly understand their trade. Everyone else is of the opinion that ''Go Flip Yourself'' suffers a bad case of StrictlyFormula.
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[[folder: Parodies and homages]]
* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'': Parodied in the sketch "Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It". The titular show is clearly ''supposed'' to be in the vein of British versions like ''Location Location Location'', with all the MundaneMadeAwesome that is usually involved... except that everyone involved in the show has clearly realised just how teeth-grindingly mundane the process ''actually'' is and so cannot be bothered to actually inject the awesome. The result is two clearly rather bored men who cannot hide their disinterest and mild resentment at having to make a television on the process of buying a house and fixing it up a bit, and so rush through everything in as quick a dull monotone as can be gotten away with.
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It's become so popular that a fair amount of Creator/DiscoveryChannel's content is dedicated to it, and at least two cable networks (HGTV and Magnolia Network) specialize in it. It's also a staple of Creator/PBSKids in the United States.

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Laszlo starts watched a ShowWithinAShow called ''Go Flip Yourself'' about home renovations. He even hails it as a masterpiece because the renovators truly understand their trade. Everyone else is of the opinion that ''Go Flip Yourself'' suffers a bad case of StrictlyFormula.

* ''RockTheBlock'' -- an HGTV show in which teams of designers and renovators from other HGTV shows compete against each other to remodel identical houses with the goal of adding the most value.

* ''Series/ChangingRooms'' - British show where two couples each redecorate one room in the other couple's house with the help of design experts.
* ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' - Families in need have their houses completely rebuilt with the help of their neighborhoods to suit their living situations.
* ''Series/FixerUpper'' - Couples buy run-down homes in affluent neighborhoods, which are then renovated under the direction of couple Chip and Joanna Gaines.
* ''Series/HolmesOnHomes'' - The adventures of Mike Holmes as he rescues homeowners from poor renovations done by third party contractors.
* ''[[Series/HomeTown2016 Home Town]]'' - A husband-and-wife duo renovate homes in a small Mississippi town.

* ''Series/HouseHunters'' -- Prospective homebuyers are shown [[RuleOfThree three properties]] and choose one to buy at the end of the episode. Has a {{Spinoff}}, ''House Hunters International'', which features people looking to buy or rent a residence in a foreign country.
* ''Series/MyLotteryDreamHome'' -- Lottery winners get help buying a house with their newfound wealth.

* ''Series/FlipOrFlop'' -- The duo of Tarek and Christina, who started the show as a married couple but are [[WorkingWithTheEx now divorced]], buy rundown homes in Southern California for their "flipping" business -- they renovate and resell the houses with the goal of making a profit on the sale.

* ''Series/LoveItOrListIt'' - Families shop for new homes while their current one is being renovated, and must decide at the end of the episode whether to buy a new house or stay in their renovated home.
* ''Series/TradingSpaces'' - The American equivalent of ''Changing Rooms''; it could occasionally border on "off the wall" itself depending on which designer a couple was stuck with.

* ''Series/MonsterHouse'' - a SpinOff of ''Series/MonsterGarage'' where parts of a house are [[TrashTheSet very violently demolished]] and transformed into an extreme setting, such as a kitchen into a medieval mead hall.
* ''Series/{{Homewrecker}}'' - a subversion courtesy of MTV in which a teenager gets revenge on a friend by having his or her bedroom transformed into an unlivable space resembling the original prank pulled (for example, a prankster who shaved all the body hair off of a sleeping buddy getting his room turned into a pulsing, throbbing cave covered floor to ceiling in hair).
* ''Series/AVeryBradyRenovation'' - Some hosts of several HGTV original series team up with ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' cast members to build a real version of the Brady house.

* Parodied in the ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' sketch "Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It". The titular show is clearly ''supposed'' to be in the vein of British versions like ''Location Location Location'', with all the MundaneMadeAwesome that is usually involved... except that everyone involved in the show has clearly realised just how teeth-grindingly mundane the process ''actually'' is and so cannot be bothered to actually inject the awesome. The result is two clearly rather bored men who cannot hide their disinterest and mild resentment at having to make a television on the process of buying a house and fixing it up a bit, and so rush through everything in as quick a dull monotone as can be gotten away with.

Expect many, many of these shows to feature EveryEpisodeEnding with TheReveal, followed by a BigOMG. The initial stages of fixing mak liberal use of TrashTheSet. SisterTrope of AHomeownerIsYou, when there's a video game mechanic that allows the player to personalize a house, garden, etc.

Expect many, many of these shows to feature EveryEpisodeEnding with TheReveal, followed by a BigOMG.

SisterTrope of AHomeownerIsYou, when there's a video game mechanic that allows the player to personalize a house, garden, etc.

** ''Series/AskThisOldHouse'': A spinoff of the above, featuring small scale home repair and landscaping projects.

It's become so popular that a fair amount of Creator/DiscoveryChannel's content is dedicated to it, and at least two cable networks (HGTV and Magnolia Network) specialize in it. It's also a staple of PBS in the United States.

[[folder: Game Show-esque ]]

[[folder: Remodeling ]]

[[folder: Home-shopping ]]

[[folder: Flipping ]]

[[folder: Others ]]

[[folder: Off the wall ]]

Expect many, many of these shows to feature EveryEpisodeEnding with TheReveal, followed by a BigOMG.q

A genre composed of several different varieties of show revolving around buying, remodeling or rebuilding homes, and/or the yards around them. The genre is so popular that a fair amount of the Discovery Channel can be found dedicated to it, and at least two cable networks (HGTV and Magnolia Network [formerly known as DIY]) specialize in it. It's also a staple of PBS in the United States.

Some are straightforward "Do It Yourself" guides and instruction. A few are akin to {{game show}}s. Others are simply off the wall, and of course a subversion or two have popped up. In all cases, the appeal revolves around a voyeuristic appreciation of the improvements, playing on the viewer's desire to have or make those improvements to his or her own home.

Expect many, many of these shows to feature EveryEpisodeEnding with TheReveal, followed by a BigOMG

[[folder: Do-It-Yourself ]]

A genre composed of several different varieties of show revolving around buying, remodeling or rebuilding homes, and/or the yards around them. The genre is so popular that a fair amount of the Discovery Channel can be found dedicated to it, and at least two cable networks (HGTV and DIY) specialize in it. It's also a staple of PBS in the United States.

* ''Series/HomeTown'' - A husband-and-wife duo renovate homes in a small Mississippi town.

* Parodied in the ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' sketch "Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It". The titular show is clearly ''supposed'' to be one of these in the vein of British versions of this genre like ''Location Location Location'', with all the MundaneMadeAwesome that is usually involved... except that everyone involved in the show has clearly realised just how teeth-grindingly mundane the process ''actually'' is and so cannot be bothered to actually inject the awesome. The result is two clearly rather bored men who cannot hide their disinterest and mild resentment at having to make a television on the process of buying a house and fixing it up a bit, and so rush through everything in as quick a dull monotone as can be gotten away with.

* ''Series/FurnitureToGo'', hosted by Joe L'Erario and Ed Feldman. Furniture repair mixed with RapidFireComedy.