Updated: February 1, 2025
Home Improvement & Interior Design Shows Worth Watching on Amazon Prime
Looking for something new to watch to fuel your creativity and expand your design perspective? Try some of these stellar but lesser known home improvement shows currently streaming on Amazon Prime, for ideas, knowledge and sheer entertainment.
Table of Contents
- New Home Shows on Amazon Prime
- Best Home Improvement & Design Shows on Amazon Prime
- Is HGTV Free on Amazon Prime?
- Home Renovation, Restoration & Makeover Shows on Amazon Prime
- House Flipping Shows on Amazon Prime
- Real Estate Shows on Amazon Prime
- Design Competition Shows on Amazon Prime
- HGTV Shows on Amazon Prime
- Related Articles
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- Free Alternatives to HGTV Programming
- Best YouTube Channels that Help Homeowners Learn
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New Home Shows on Amazon Prime
- Montana Wild (Seasons 1 now available)
- Money for Nothing (Seasons 1-4 now available)
- Buying Back Home (Seasons 1-2 now available)
- Deadline Design (Season 1 now available)
- Cheap European Homes (Season 1 now available)
- Tiny House Hunting (Season 4 now available)
- Cliveden – A Very British Country House Hotel (Season 1 now available)
- World’s Greatest Palaces (Season 1 now available)
- Castles and Palaces of Europe (Season 1 now available)
- Clarkson’s Farm (Season 3 premiered May 3, 2024)
- Luxe Listings Toronto (New series premiered April 26, 2024)
- Going Home with Tyler Cameron (New series premiered April 18, 2024)
- Divine Renovation (Season 1 now available on FreeVee)
- Cristiana Felgueiras: This Old House Makers Channel (Seasons 1-2 now available on FreeVee)
- April Wilkerson: This Old House Makers Channel (Season 2 now available on FreeVee)
- Brad Rodriguez: This Old House Makers Channel (Seasons 1-3 now available on FreeVee)
- Laura Kampf: This Old House Makers Channel (Seasons 1-3 now available on FreeVee)
- Jason Hibbs: This Old House Makers Channel (Seasons 1 & 3 now available on FreeVee)
- Chris Salomone: This Old House Makers Channel (Seasons 1-2 now available on FreeVee)
- This Old House (Seasons 42-44 now available on FreeVee)
- Flipping Out (Seasons 1-5 now available on FreeVee)
- Antiques Roadshow UK (Seasons 28, 30-36 now available on FreeVee)
- Handcrafted America (Seasons 1-3 now available on FreeVee)
- Cheap Irish Home (Seasons 1-3 now available on FreeVee)
Best Home Improvement & Design Shows on Amazon Prime
- Big Dreams, Small Spaces
- The Block
- Brand New House on a Budget
- Building Dream Homes
- Building the Dream Nashville
- Changing Rooms
- Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes
- Design Doctors
- Grand Designs
- The Great Interior Design Challenge
- The Home Show
- HomeMADE
- Life on Mar’s: The Home Makeover Show
- Love It or Lose It
- My Design Rules
- Project Restoration
- Reno Rumble
- Restoration Man
- Room to Improve
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Big Dreams, Small Spaces
Amiable host Monty Don works with amateur gardeners throughout Britain to help bring their dream gardens to fruition. Viewers love this show for the wide variety of spaces and impressive transformations, while easily picking up helpful tips and creative ideas for their own gardens.
Themes: Gardening, Outdoors, Monty Don, British
See Big Dreams, Small Spaces episode details on Amazon.
For additional garden and landscaping shows on Prime see: Best Garden & Landscaping Shows on Prime
The Block
The renovation of a block-wide, multi-story, heritage building in Australia is the scene for this reality competition show. Five teams of two adults compete in various challenges, as they renovate one of five oversized apartments in what will become a luxury, block- sized, exclusive building with the coveted units. The “Blockheads”, although from different occupations and generations, bring a certain set of skills that are surprisingly transferable throughout this contest.
Themes: Renovations, Competition, Australian
Note: Several seasons are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See The Block episode details on Amazon.
Brand New House on a Budget
A talented interior designer is challenged to do a huge home makeover on the tiniest budget, using clever styling tricks, bargain hunting and upcycling to transform drab houses into beautiful family homes.
Themes: Interior Design, Home Makeovers, Budgeting, British
See Brand New House on a Budget episode details on Amazon.
Building Dream Homes
This series follows the real-world exploits of some of the UK’s most innovative architects, as they manage builders, blueprints and clients in pursuit of building custom dream homes. The show shares the day-to-day drama of what it takes to manage expectations and various trades to complete highly ambitious residential homes.
Themes: Architecture, Construction, Home Building, Custom Homes, British
See Building Dream Homes episode details on Amazon.
Building the Dream Nashville
This series covers the room-by-room development and interior design of a 6,201-square-foot Whole Home Concept by House Beautiful, who hired a builder, architect and 14 designers to fulfill this quest. The team of forward-thinking designers were tasked to craft the interior spaces and exterior grounds with a family’s total joy in mind. Hosted by Carisha Swanson of House Beautiful.
Themes: Interior Design, Remodeling, Landscaping, American
See Building the Dream Nashvlle episode details on Amazon.
Changing Rooms
With two days and 500 pounds, a professional designer and a handyman, two couples are given the opportunity to redo a room in each other’s homes. Neighbors, relatives or friends are chosen, then not allowed back into their own home for the two day makeover period. This is the British version of America’s once popular Trading Spaces.
Themes: Interior Design, Home Makeovers, Budgeting, Neighbors, British
Note: Season 1 is currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Changing Rooms episode details on Amazon.
Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes
If you enjoy learning about luxuriously daring examples of residential architecture in faraway places across the globe, this show should be a pleasure to watch for you. Irish architect and host Dermot Bannon brings an enthusiastic and respectful approach to understanding the rationale of each home’s design and what it means to its residents. Though not all designs will be universally admired or understood by viewers, the show is certainly a fun and convenient way to experience the rarefied interior spaces of truly unique one-of-a-kind homes.
Themes: Architecture, Construction, Home Building, Custom Homes, Interior Design, International
Note: All of Season 1 but only two episodes of Season 2 are available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes episode details on Amazon.
Design Doctors
From Ireland. Two interior designers go on a mission, each episode, to help ordinary homeowners with their unique design challenges, while staying on budget. Properties run the gamut from modest dwellings to high-end homes to luxury hotels. The designers, Denise O’Connor and Catherine Crowe, featured in Season 1, received stellar reviews.
Themes: Interior Design, Home Makeovers, Budgeting, Irish
Note: Seasons 1-2 are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Design Doctors episode details on Amazon.
Grand Designs
Presented by Kevin McCloud, this British home design show tells the story of ambitious, new homes and the people who build them. Viewers follow the progress of houses with unforeseen complications and stretch in the budget. Explore the design detail, and chart the changes and compromises that happened along the way.
Themes: Architecture, Home Building, Budgeting, Neighbors, British
Note: Seasons 11 and 12 are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Grand Designs episode details on Amazon.
The Great Interior Design Challenge
A trio of amateur interior designers compete to design similar rooms in different homes across Britain in the hopes of impressing a team of professional judges. This interior design competition sees 24 wannabe interior designers tasked with transforming entire rooms from top to bottom, showing off their design skills in various architectural housing styles. Season 2 currently included with Prime.
Themes: Interior Design, Competition, Home Makeovers, Budgeting, British
See The Great Interior Design Challenge episode details on Amazon.
The Home Show
Hosted by George Clarke of Restoration Man fame, this UK based show tackles dysfunctional layouts, battered constructions and dated interiors to reveal renovated dream homes. Discovering unlocked beauty and hidden assets that can be amplified and restored, architect Clarke is a master of discovering art in the most unlikely of places.
Themes: Interior Design, Renovations, Budgeting, British
Note: Seasons 1 and 2 are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See The Home Show episode details on Amazon.
HomeMADE
Billed as the “biggest renovation competition ever attempted on television”, this Australian-based series has 10 top designers from around the country competing for a $100,000 prize, as one is voted off each week. Each episode has two teams tasked with remodeling a suburban home each, under the eye of expert designer David Heimann, who expects them to crete a “silk look on a polyester budget”.
Themes: Interior Design, Competition, Renovations, Australian
Note: Season 1 is currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Home MADE episode details on Amazon.
Life on Mar’s: The Home Makeover Show
Makeovers of all types, media, family, outdoor rooms, bathrooms and master suites are the main appeal of this show hosted by Mar Jennings, a Westport, Connecticut lifestyle host with years of makeover experience. Focused on his brand of interior design, Jennings is guided by his six design principles that focus on challenges such as design transformation with functionality for both indoor and outdoor living spaces with older New England homes. His casual luxury remodel of this 1908 New England home packs in helpful renovation and makeover tips that DIYers can use to help reclaim found space, without destroying character.
Themes: Interior Design, Home Makeovers, New England
Note: Season 1 is currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Life on Mar’s: The Home Makeover Show episode details on Amazon.
Love It or Lose It
Each episode offers homeowners a chance for a free, large budget home makeover. The premise involves the show producers choosing one of three “extreme” interior designers to create a “luxurious” interior space, while the homeowners are taken away for the weekend. If the homeowners do not like the makeover, the design work has to be reverted back. A common criticism of the series is that the designers often do not listen to the preferences of the homeowners. This review headline aptly surmises some of these complaints: “Terrible design show that is fun to watch”. However, watching bad design experiences can still be instructional and infinitely more enjoyable than in real life!
Themes: Real Estate, Home Makeovers
Note: Seasons 1 and 2 are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Love It or Lose It episode details on Amazon.
My Design Rules
Three design team duos, compete in challenges for a grand cash prize and industry recognition in this South African reality show. Mentored by design magazine editors, the teams must design spare bedrooms, double bathrooms, double rooms, kitchens all incorporating both function and design elements in their respective houses.
Themes: Interior Design, Competition, Home Makeovers, South African
Note: Seasons 1 and 2 are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See My Design Rules episode details on Amazon.
Project Restoration
Marianne Suhr tours Britain in search of historic building renovations being performed by ordinary homeowners. From a dilapidated 12th century Welsh castle to a 13th Century Parsonage, we witness passionate and enthusiastic homeowners restore significant architectures to their former glory and beyond. If you enjoy thatched roofs, daub and wattle, or goat’s hair in lime plaster, this show is for you!
Themes: Historic Restorations, Architecture, DIY, British
See Project Restoration episode details on Amazon.
Reno Rumble
That’s pronounced “re-no” as in renovation, and contestants in this Australia-based reality show are tasked with renovating two suburban homes. Each week sees the elimination of one team based on the weekly challenge with the final winner receiving a $100,000 prize and a new car. The homes’ styles are dictated by interior design experts who also serve as the series judges.
Themes: Renovations, Competition, Australia
Note: Season 1 is currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Reno Rumble episode details on Amazon.
Restoration Man
Presented by George Clark, this series travels up and down the United Kingdom to new locations, new restorations and amazing stories of people who have gone to extraordinary lengths to build their dream homes.
Themes: Historic Restorations, Architecture, British
Note: Seasons 2 and 3 are available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Restoration Man episode details on Amazon.
Room to Improve
Architect Dermot Bannon returns with a brand new series of Room to Improve, featuring more of his innovative and contemporary design projects. As always, each build is fraught with human and financial drama: over stressed budgets, last minute changes of heart, unexpected disasters, unpredictable weather and the vagaries of an architect desperately trying to convince his clients that he knows best.
Themes: Interior Design, Home Makeovers, Budgeting, British
Note: Seasons 1-12 are currently available for free with ads on Prime via Freevee (previously known as IMDB TV).
See Room to Improve episode details on Amazon.
Home Renovation, Restoration & Makeover Shows on Amazon Prime
- Becki & Brett: From Rendering to Reality
- Best Laid Plans
- The Block
- Brand New House on a Budget
- Changing Rooms
- Design Doctors
- Finest Homes
- The Great Interior Design Challenge
- Holistic Home
- The Home Show
- HomeMADE
- Life on Mar’s: The Home Makeover Show
- Love It or Lose It
- My Design Rules
- Project Restoration
- Reno Rumble
- The Renovator (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- The Reveal
- Room to Improve
- Restoration Man
- Today’s Homeowner with Danny Lipford
House Flipping Shows on Amazon Prime
- Desert Flippers (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Flip or Flop (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Flipping Out
- Masters of Flip (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- The Really Big Flip
- Zombie House Flipping (Seasons 1-3 with ads)
Real Estate Shows on Amazon Prime
- Buying Back Home
- Cheap Irish Homes
- Escape to the Country
- Love It or Lose It
- Robson Green’s Coastal Lives
- Selling New York (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Tiny BNB
- Tiny House Nation
- Top Million Dollar Agent
Design Competition Shows on Amazon Prime
Is HGTV Free on Amazon Prime?
No, HGTV is currently not available for free on Amazon Prime.
The most economical way to access the huge selection of on-demand HGTV programming is to signup for Discovery+ as an add-on subscription to your Prime account. Currently the Discovery+ plan starts at just $4.99 per month – ad-supported is $4.99/month and ad-free is $6.99/month – which is not charged until after your 7-day free trial expires. You can opt-out at any time before the trial ends at no cost, or cancel anytime thereafter once your subscription begins.
If you are frustrated by not being able to find full episodes of HGTV online, we highly recommend that you signup for a 7-day free trial of Discovery +. The subscription not only includes HGTV programming, but also other pouplar Discovery networks like the Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Magnolia Network.
The Discovery+ add-on option is part of Prime Video Channels, which allows Prime Members to choose additional channels, without needing a cable account.
HGTV Shows on Amazon Prime
- The Established Home (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- First Home Fix (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Flip or Flop (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Good Bones (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Good Bones: Risky Business (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Hidden Potential (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Home Town (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- I Bought a Dump … Now What? (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Makeover by Monday (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Masters of Flip (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Renovation Impossible (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- The Renovator (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Unsellable Houses (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
- Windy City Rehab (available with Discovery+ 7-day free trial)
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