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The Home Channel delivers décor, design, home improvement and property television programmes, featuring a line-up of international and local series, as well as weekly interviews with South African decorators, designers, architects, landscapers and property specialists.


Build, Buy or Restore

Build, Buy or Restore, presented by property expert Michael Holmes, presents homeowners with the option of building a house from scratch; restoring a dilapidated property; or simply purchasing a finished house.
Cowboy Trap

Imagine having a man with talent and tools ring your doorbell. You throw open the door and tell Jaran, Anthony, Matthew or Dylan exactly what you want.
Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price

Ambrose Price, is a vibrant, enthusiastic designer from Fortune Bay Nfld; population 2000. His dream is to make it in the "big city" and become Canada's Martha Stewart. Ambrose is coming to Toronto to temp and learn from the biggest and best in the design industry.
Design Match

Match me if you can! Two rival design teams have two days to create a knockout budget version of a high-end inspiration room.
Design U

Design U 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.
Design-a-Garden

Catch the fifth season of Design-a-Garden, the gardening show that digs deep to create beautiful gardens. Every week Melanie Walker works with some of South Africa’s best landscape designers tackling garden design themes and showing the viewers how these can be re-created at home.
Dickinson's Real Deal

Flamboyant antiques expert David Dickinson hosts the show where you can turn up with unwanted antiques and leave at the end of the day with cash in your pocket.
Escape to the Country

Armed with a maximum budget of 400,000 pounds, Aled Jones helps a family escape the big smoke to find a slice of paradise in Cambridgeshire. Top of the their wish list is a big garden for the boys to play football in, but they also want four bedrooms, a large kitchen, a music room and a study.
Family Renovation

FAMILY RENOVATION follows the Grant Family as they struggle to maintain their sanity and family life while living in a house undergoing a massive renovation. Having moved from a large home to a small one-and-a-half storey house; Marie- France, who thrives on chaos and multi-tasking, believes this is an adventure for her, her husband Gus and their five children. Gus isn’t so sure.
Feng Shui Life

FAMILY RENOVATION follows the Grant Family as they struggle to maintain their sanity and family life while living in a house undergoing a massive renovation. Having moved from a large home to a small one-and-a-half storey house; Marie- France, who thrives on chaos and multi-tasking, believes this is an adventure for her, her husband Gus and their five children. Gus isn’t so sure.
From Here to Maternity

Most parents will tell you having children is the greatest thing that's ever happened to them, but they'll also tell you it's a journey into the great unknown. In this series we dispel the myths as we follow 6 couples through their last stages of pregnancy… childbirth… and life at home with a new baby.
Front of House

More and more of us are choosing revamp our homes rather than just climb the property ladder. And this show goes where no property makeover show has gone before. Lounges have been overhauled, bathrooms beautified and gardens titivated, but one crucial area has been missed….. the Front of House.
Home Made

As President of Toronto-based House & Home Media, Lynda Reeves is one of Canada’s leading personalities in the fields of interior design, decorating and lifestyle trends.
House of Bryan

Gemini award winning host Bryan Baeumler, is used to applying his tough love to the uniformed, the misinformed and just plain lazy Do-It-Yourselfers of the world. But now he’s got his own mega DIY project - building his own home from scratch in just six months!
How Clean Is Your House

Dynamic duo Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie return to uncover the dirty secrets of Britain's filthiest homes. Armed with little more than a pair of rubber gloves and some valuable household advice, they persuade the unhygienic, the messy and the downright disgusting to clean up their act. Along the way, they reveal some horrifying facts about the bugs and microbes lurking in our homes.
How Long will you Live

The show looks at different people's lifestyles and habits and from there we see just how long they will live if they continue living the way that they do.
I want a Garden

Diarmuid Gavin is back - offering his innovative design skills to create unique, high impact gardens for the hit show, I Want A Garden.
Journey of Taste

Join Presenter Sydney Mahlaku on a journey of taste around South Africa as he delves into local arts and crafts, visits top end boutique hotels and discusses points of interest with the designers of great interiors. Travel into little known spots of interest in the country and get a unique taste of a variety of areas finding out what makes them special.
King of Dirt

Gino Panaro is King of Dirt. He's definitely not what you'd expect from one of America's premier landscape contractors. He's a loud, bull-in-a-china-shop, Brooklyn-born guy who happens to create incredible beauty.
Love it or list it

Love It or List It is a primetime reality series about homeowners faced with the decision of how far they’re willing to go for their dream home.
Making Spaces

Melanie Cantor is on a mission to revolutionize Britain's homes with ingenious storage solutions.
Mansions

Dynamic, tension-filled and energetic, MANSIONS is an intense adrenaline rush that unveils the realities of luxury residential construction. Viewers discover how multi-million dollar homes are designed and built, from rough sketches to jaw-dropping completion.
Move This House

Move This House is a new series about one of the most difficult challenges any family endures: moving. Each week a family must put their trust in host Tanya Memme, home decorating expert Roger Hazard, and the rest of the team and place the look of their new home completely in the team's hands.
Moving Day

With moving house often being described as one of the most stressful days of our lives, Moving Day is a brand new programme that helps people get through their house move as smoothly as possible.
My Parents House

My Parents’ House is a design makeover series with a unique family twist. It’s not the neighbours, family friends, or strangers in your space; it’s family! Adult children return to the family home to do something they have been dying to do for years: redecorate and re-design at least one room in their parents’ house. We’re shaking up the suburbs and catapulting mom and dad’s house into the 21st century!
On Show

On Show is a popular property showcase featuring exclusive video tours of homes up for sale as well as introducing two brand new sections dedicated to Golf Estates and Estate Living. Don’t miss your weekly dose of property shopping every weekend.
Open Gardens

Carol Klein, plantswoman extraordinaire, brings her infectious enthusiasm for plants and their growers to Open Gardens.
Property Ladder

Property Ladder follows amateur developers as they renovate their properties in the hope of making a profit. Presenter Sarah Beeny draws on her decade of experience in the property sector to offer down-to-earth advice on the best ways to survive the seismic shifts facing the housing market.
Pure Design

Pure Design is a fresh new series with a timely hook – it shows viewers how to create stunning, stylish living spaces with an eco-friendly twist.
Sarah's House

Sarah’s House showcases the challenging, high impact and true reality of home renovation – the dirt, dust, disaster and delicious end result. Host Sarah Richardson of “Design Inc.” and “Room Service” fame buys a house needing serious TLC.
Show Me How

Beadwork, leatherwork, decoupage, mosaic, pewter, art-clay silver, engraving and many more. We’re bringing you all your favourites each week on Show Me How, the home channel’s homegrown arts & crafts show. Join presenter Juliet Newell and craft expert Elizabeth Morley each week as they bring in top crafters to show you how it’s done.
So Chic

Two guys – Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman, two gals, one splashy event and a fashion challenge: To make both women look fabulous. The catch? One lady gets $500 and the other gets $2000.
Take it Outside

Take It Outside is an interior design makeover series with a twist -- it takes place outside!
Take My Kids Please

A family-style reality show that gives frazzled parents the opportunity to hand their parenting duties over to a single friend or relative and recapture the carefree romance of their courtship. While the couple enjoys getting “re-connected” over the course of a romantic and fun get-away weekend, the designated "baby sitter" faces the challenge of parenting for the first time.
Take this House and Sell It

For anyone who wants the latest tips and trends on getting one's home ready for an immediate and lucrative sale, this reality series is sure to provide great ideas.
The Stagers

Home staging – one of real estate's fastest-growing trends - is the art of transforming drab homes that just won't sell into luxurious living spaces that have the potential to spark all-out bidding wars.
The Unsellables UK

The Unsellables is a bold new property show that helps desperate homeowners transform their ‘unsellable’ homes. Can a slick makeover and crafty sales campaign finally secure them an offer? Hosted by Sofie Allsopp, and packed with practical advice, learn how to turn an unwanted house into an unstoppable hot property.
To The Manor Bowen

Flamboyant design guru Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and family have swapped their lavish London lifestyle for a calmer, countryside existence.
World's Greenest Homes

From temples of glass and steel, to palaces made from pressed earth and recycled blue jeans, World’s Greenest Homes 2 tours the most amazing properties on the planet – and proves that luxury and ecology can exist under the same roof.
Shows not to miss in August:


Party Mamas


Moving Day


Home Made

Room For Improvement


Love it or List it


Sarah's House


Whether you're looking for inspiration about the latest decor trends, thinking of doing some home improvements,or searching for your dream home...

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