Top 5 Home Improvement TV Shows

Learn Home Improvement and Lawn, Garden, and Landscape Tips on HGTV and DIY

Wendy Dawn
It seems like there is always a home improvement project going on around our house. Often, we get inspired by home improvement TV shows. Such shows often demonstrate houses with similar layouts or projects as our own.

Home improvement is made much easier when you are able to watch the project take place on TV, including obstacles and quick fixes.

It's easy to get hooked on home improvement TV shows and home improvement projects. If you are going to spend watching home improvement, I recommend you choose from the following top 5 home improvement TV shows.

Top 5 Home Improvement TV Shows: Design on a Dime, HGTV

Design on a Dimeis a daytime program on HGTV. The team of home improvement experts and designers featured on Design on a Dime go into a home and focus on one problem area. They approach home improvement projects much the same as we all do. Design on a Dime tries to figure out how to make the most of an awkward space or improve the look and functionality of a room without busting their budget. All home improvement projects featured on this HGTV show are completed with less than $1000. That makes the show and the projects very appealing to any home owner.

Design on a Dimes, Daily on HGTV, 2:30pm EST.

Top 5 Home Improvement TV Shows: Desperate Landscapes, DIY

Along with HGTV, DIY offers some of the best home improvement TV. If you struggle to keep your yard and landscape from looking like a jungle you'll enjoy watching Desperate Landscapes. Learn tips and tricks to make quick, easy, and inexpensive improvements to your home and garden. Host and home and garden improvement expert Jason Cameron takes on projects from designing and creating flower bed, to tackling porch problems, walkways, and outdoor painting. Tune in to find out how to transform your lawn and garden.

Desperate Landscapes, DIY, Thursdays, 10pm EST.

Top 5 Home Improvement TV Shows: Renovation Realities, DIY

Renovation Realities, on DIY network, restores my faith in my ability to start a home improvement project and see it through to completion. Home improvement shows always make projects look so easy, but when I start a home or garden project it never fails that I run into some bizarre challenge unlike anything I've seen on a home improvement TV show. Renovation Reality takes a realistic look at seemingly simple home improvement projects that blossom into major ordeals right before your eyes. Renovation Reality will encourage you by demonstrating that you aren't the only one who encounters odd obstacles and that home improvement projects can be completed despite any issues you encounter.

Renovation Realities, DIY, Wednesdays, 9:30pm EST.

Renovation Realities, HGTV, Wednesday, 10:30pm EST.

Top 5 Home Improvement TV Shows: Gardening by the Yard

No one wants an ugly yard, but not everyone has a lot of time to spend working in their lawn and garden. The good news is that HGTV presents Gardening by the Yard, on which Master Gardener Paul James offers basic tips to keep your yard looking great year-round. In only thirty minutes, Paul James reinforces the basics of a healthy lawn and garden and shares ideas to add pop to even the most mundane yard. If you want to improve the look of your yard and better understand your yard's role in the natural environment watch this home improvement show on HGTV.

Gardening by the Yard, HGTV, Friday and Sunday, 7:30am.

Top 5 Home Improvement TV Shows: Sweat Equity

Sweat Equityis more than just another home improvement show. The team on DIY Network's Sweat Equity helps home owners determine which home improvement projects will add the most value to their home. Like all other home owners, the home owners on Sweat Equity have a variety of projects from which to choose. As viewers, we have the opportunity to discover which aspects of our home are crucial to home value. Then, Amy Matthews and a team of home improvement professionals, show home owners how to do home improvement projects themselves saving money and adding value to their home.

Sweat Equity, DIY, Wednesdays, 10pm EST.

Where to watch the best home improvement TV shows: HGTV and DIY

HGTV and DIY are sister networks. They tend not to duplicate shows, except for one or two very popular series. Both networks take home owners by the hand and help with home and garden projects. A few hours of HGTV and DIY TV networks can save you a ton of money on home improvement projects.

Sources:

Design on a Dime; Desperate Landscapes; DIY Network; Gardening by the Yard; HGTV; Renovation Reality; Sweat Equity

Published by Wendy Dawn

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Tired of running into roadblocks on your home improvement projects. Allow the experts on HGTV and DIY TV networks help you successfully complete projects that add value to your home.

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  • Annie Mac!10/22/2009

    If you like home improvement shows you should check out the latest webseries from ServiceMagic.com, it's a really cute series about kids as homeowners trying to get a new kitchen: http://www.servicemagic.com/ext/6460142

  • Dr. Ed Warde9/12/2009

    A good idea for an article. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

  • Linda Ann Nickerson9/11/2009

    These home renovation shows are fun to watch. What ideas they demonstrate for home reconstruction and home improvement.

  • Gene Kiernan9/9/2009

    great list, i tend to watch DIY channel more so than HGTV

  • Tricia Goss9/9/2009

    Great shows!

  • Charlotte Kuchinsky9/9/2009

    I love these. I miss Trading Spaces though.

  • Angela - Upon Request9/9/2009

    I get hooked on these shows, especially on the weekend. Design on a Dime is definitely one of my favorites.

  • saul relative9/9/2009

    Design on a Dime is one great show.

  • Carol Whyte9/9/2009

    I love these type of shows. It's not as easy as it looks when they do projects!

  • David A. Reinstein, LCSW9/9/2009

    I'm trapped in the cycle of watching but not doing! :-}

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