UK’s home improvement firms have been experiencing a boom despite the ongoing lockdown, ever since the home makeover craze hit many work-from-home individuals. In having more time to spend, and extra money saved by not needing to physically report for work, not a few were inspired by the projects featured by home improvement TV shows.
The Ideal Home website found the trend an ideal subject for conducting an online survey, to find out which UK home makeover TV shows count as favourites among Britain’s TV audience. The results of the survey revealed the top 8 home improvement TV shows that have somehow inspired the renovation and refurbishing craze in the UK:
Top 8 Home Improvement TV Shows Voted as Favourites by UK’s TV Audience
All these TV shows could have been instrumental in driving consumer spending on home improvements as a result of living life under lockdown.
The demand for furniture, fabrics, curtains, decors, hardware and the likes, saw industry providers turning their business into a one-stop shop, in which DIY amateurs can choose from a complete line of home improvement materials and accessories.
Englanderline (https://englanderline.com/curtain-makers-london/) for one, maintains a team of interior designers, professional curtain makers and furniture crafters to make it easier for homeowners to find, or have their designs custom-made according to their preference.
1. Escape to the Chateau
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Making it to the Number 1 spot is Channel 4’s docu-series following the renovating and redecorating adventures of Dick and Angel Strawbeidge. The couple along with their brood shared their experience as they went about renovating and redecorating their dream home, a 19th century castle located in northwest France.
2. Grand Designs
Grand Design emerged as the second top favourite among UK’s TV audience. After all, famed designer and writer Kevin McCloud has been providing inspiration to DIY amateurs and architecture lovers for the past 20 years. Grand Designs is actually one of the longest running home improvement TV show in the UK.
Each of the episodes featured in all Grand Design’s 20 seasons, the show follows the dramatic developments that transpire in the projects undertaken by different people, who agreed to take on the challenges of making their dream home come true.
3. George Clarke’s Amazing Space
This show landed the third spot. It’s another Channel 4 home improvement TV show, but one that focuses on the extraordinary improvements made to turn small and unique places into incredible homes. The 10 series feature homeowners who shared their ideas and techniques on how to optimise their space while adapting to modern living.
4. DIY SOS
BBC One’s top rating DIY show that has been running for the past 22 years is now called The Big Build. The new format is presented by Nick Knowles as he follows the DIY SOS team in helping deserving families build their dream home. The fulfillment of each project is made possible through the help of the community’s suppliers, tradespeople and many other community members who enlisted with the DIY SOS team.
5. Changing Rooms
A DIY and home decorating TV show that has been gracing the TV screens of UK audience since 1996. It comes in an exciting and sometimes dramatic format involving house swapping agreement between two couples. Each couple is tasked to improve and decorate one of the rooms in the other’s home but with the help of topnotch interior designers, which included the likes of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Linda Barker.
Other home improvement shows completing the top 8 favourites are BBC’s Interior Design Masters at No. 6; Extreme Makeover at No. 7 and finally, 60 Minute Makeover at No. 8.