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The stars of Fixer Upper Chip and Joanna Gaines and Property Brothers stars Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott

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(Left to right) Chip and Joanna Gaines of "Fixer Upper" and Jonathan and Drew Scott of "Property Brothers."

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With March roaring in like a panthera leo, it'southward fourth dimension to shop the snow shovel and start making dwelling and garden plans. Even if you never get out of the La-Z-Boy Lounger, there are endless Television shows offer landscaping tips, habitation renovation projects and the prospect of moving to a new house in the old neighborhood or across the world. There's never been such a diversity of home and garden shows — here are our critics' summit picks for the best in domestic escapism and amusement.

Home Town Takeover (HGTV)

If information technology'due south non plenty to meet a single house gut renovated, head on south to Wetumpka, Alabama, known as the Metropolis of Natural Beauty. Hubby and married woman team Ben and Erin Napier took on updating the unabridged town, one ranch house, i vintage domicile, 1 boutique, one restaurant, one farmer's market at a fourth dimension. Celebrity guests include Sheryl Crow.

Watch it: Home Town Takeover on Amazon Prime number, HGTV

Stay Here (Netflix)

With curt-term rentals all the rage, and passive income promising some inflation relief, this show drills into the reality of turning your place into a potential moneymaker. The feel-expert series pairs interior designer Genevieve Gorder and real manor maven Peter Lorimer who aid folks around the world transform their potential rentals into five-star Airbnb moneymakers.

Watch information technology:Stay Hither on Netflix

Flip or Flop stars Tarek El Moussa and Christina Anstead

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Flip or Flop (HGTV)

Tin can erstwhile-married man-and-wife Realtors Christina and Tarek El Moussa purchase a risky fixer-upper, renovate it and put it on the market without going underwater? In every HGTV episode over 10 seasons, the Orange County, California, pair give it a try, face up seemingly insurmountable plumbing and foundation issues, often profit — and inspire viewers with home do-it-yourself projects and an entrepreneurial real manor spirit.

Watch it:Flip or Flop on Amazon Prime number

Drastic Landscapes (DIY Network)

Sometimes just mowing the lawn isn't plenty. In this straightforward DIY Network outdoor makeover testify, which began in 2007, host player-model-carpenter Jason Cameron takes on the grounds of a lucky homeowner "desperate" for a new look and provides handy ideas for viewers at home. Overgrown weeds, broken walkways and dead copse: Beware!

Watch it: Desperate Landscapeson Amazon Prime (Discovery+)

Love It or List It (HGTV)

On this Canadian-American home design serial, congenially competitive hosts David Visentin and Hilary Farr — he'south an actor-Realtor; she's a designer and home stager — spend a half hour addressing a invitee couple'due south problems with their existing dwelling. The hosts pursue two options: renovating the property inside a upkeep with an eye toward a auction and offering the guests an alternative to purchase. And so, will the owners dearest their newly redesigned palazzo courtesy of Hilary, or sell information technology to buy one of David's suggested properties? In curt: Volition they love information technology or list it?

Watch it: Love It or Listing Information technologyon Amazon Prime, HGTV

Adjourn Appeal (HGTV)

Tin can 26 seasons and a host (John Gidding) to rival the Property Brothers be wrong? Since 1999, the inspirational one-half-hour landscaping show on HGTV has demonstrated to viewers how to upgrade their greenery and home exterior from foliage to front door, boosting the looks of plain-Jane houses to star status.

Watch Information technology:Curb Appeal on Amazon Prime number, HGTV

Expert Bones (HGTV)

Heartland look-akin female parent-daughter team Karen Eastward. Laine and Mina Starsiak Hawk know their way around a wrench as they remodel properties in their native Indianapolis. At that place's relatively zilch they tin can't reach — from updating tiny houses to drafty Victorians — with good humor and hard work.

Lookout man information technology:Skillful Bones on Amazon Prime, HGTV

The Large Flower Fight (Netflix)

If you're someone who is keen on competition in unscripted shows, try this mad viii-episode British garden program. Hosts Natasia Demetriou, Vic Reeves and Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht track x pairs of florists, landscapers and sculptors every bit they create al fresco artworks from flowers, shrubs, vines and assorted plants. Information technology's the Rose Parade meets Edward Scissorhands.

Spotter it: The Big Flower Fighton Netflix

Tiny House Nation (FYI)

Downsizing way, manner downward? Spotter host John Weisbarth and pro Zack Giffin get small while touring the U.S. and exploring the micro home tendency. They ingeniously accost living spaces that are less than 300 square feet — and raise that question of how much bonding is as well much when cohabiting with your family in such a wee house.

Watch it: Tiny Firm Nation on Amazon Prime, Netflix

Fixer Upper (HGTV)

Who doesn't want a bargain? Who doesn't want to take that galley kitchen with the avocado electric appliances and transform it into a melt'due south entertaining platform with a stainless steel gleam? In this evidence that ran from 2013 to 2018, shelter superstars Chip and Joanna Gaines brand information technology seem easy to take the biggest mess in the nicest neighborhood and transform it into real estate gold, with the help of a hammer and some serious sweat disinterestedness. Interested in a 2.0 version of the OG? Discovery+ has an all-newFixer Upper: Welcome Home with Chip and Jo.

Watch It: Logroller Upper on Amazon Prime, HGTV, Discovery+

Grand Designs (Netflix)

In the fantasy home-builders league, host Kevin McCloud tracks downwardly unusual ane-of-a-kind dwellings and follows their construction from plans to landscaping. On this British unscripted TV testify launched in 1999, mild-mannered McCloud travels from southern Ireland to W London to the Isle of Skye, nosing around as owners transform riverside boathouses and create indigestible new-builds, even radical dream houses — and move on in.

Watch information technology:G Designson Amazon Prime

Property Brothers (HGTV)

Tall, dark and handsome identical twins, real manor expert Drew Scott and contractor Jonathan Scott have become a cottage industry. The Canadian charmers serve up practical home renovation hints with a side of skilful-natured sibling rivalry. The brand of the entrepreneurial brothers, who started their first business at historic period vii, includes several TV serial also equally books and Meredith'sReveal magazine.

Watch it: Holding Brothers on Amazon Prime, HGTV

This Quondam Firm (PBS)

For vintage-habitation lovers, and those who want to enjoy historic details without the countless budget, this PBS granddad of shelter shows has led the style. The half-hour syndicated show launched in 1979 boasts current host Kevin O'Connor and a no-nonsense team of plumbing and HVAC experts, landscapers and full general contractors. Together they chronicle renovating homes across America; a four-episode special, "Rebuilding Paradise," addresses habitation revivals in wildfire-ravaged Paradise, California.

Watch it: This Old House on Amazon Prime, PBS

Monty Don the lead presenter of British television show Gardeners World

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Monty Don, the lead presenter of "Gardeners' Globe."

Gardeners' Earth (BBC)

The BBC's essential British garden prove has been running continuously since the winter afterwards the Summertime of Love — that's some hardy growth! Originally from the Oxford Botanical Garden, with a magazine tie-in (BBC Gardeners' World) and the very helpful companion site gardenersworld.com, the show offers practical advice and countless ingenuity, without getting dirt under your fingernails or ticks inside your socks.

Watch it: Gardeners' Earthon Britbox

House Hunters (HGTV)

The HGTV classic real estate shopping evidence is terrific amusement for two major reasons. The first: If you're snoopy about existent estate, this long-running unscripted show (since 1999) follows a couple visiting three potential homes in their budget and proposed neighborhood — and you can peek aslope them without pretending to accept a down payment. The 2nd: Information technology'south a guilty pleasure to watch the potential purchasers collaborate as if they're oblivious to the camera as conflicts chimera upwardly while they discuss crown molding, shag carpeting and whether a man cave is really appropriate in the 21st century. (Bonus: Check out Firm Hunters: LOL, the network's Mystery Science Theater 3000–style homage, which invites comedians to snark forth with viewers on their couches.)

Watch it: House Hunterson Amazon Prime, HGTV

House Hunters International (HGTV)

Using the aforementioned unscripted format every bit its HGTV domestic version, the half-60 minutes prove follows a couple exploring their foreign options with a knowledgeable real estate agent. What would information technology be like to buy a pied-à-terre in downtown Buenos Aires, or a husk of a villa in tawny Tuscany? Is retirement really possible in Panama or Uruguay? There'south no need to worry nigh getting lost in translation as nosotros snoop the apartments and palazzos around the globe from our armchairs without ever having to experience foreign plumbing.

Watch it: Firm Hunters International on Discovery+, HGTV

Thelma M. Adams, the former film critic forThe states Weekly and theNew York Post, is a novelist who writes on film for AARP,The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter andVariety.

Editor's notation: This article was originally published on July 27, 2020. It has been updated with additional shows and links to where y'all tin can stream them.