The Best Home Shows To Stream Right Now

Looking for a little inspiration for your home? Luckily, in the golden age of streaming, you've got more than a few options. Home shows have boomed in popularity in recent years, with HGTV's May 2021 big-name offering "Home Town Takeover" premiering with over 6.5 million viewers, according to Discovery. And with their unique combination of practical home decor tips and tricks and hosts that you want to get to know, it's little wonder these shows are such a hit. "They are the soap operas of today," said Allison Page, the general manager of HGTV, DIY Network, and Great American Country, to Country Living. "People do feel like they know the hosts — these aren't people just playing a part. It's like they know them in real life."

With this popularity, however, comes a huge range of choices, and sometimes it can be a little difficult to know where to spend your precious time watching. So we've done the hard work for you and compiled a list of the best home shows to stream right now.

Ever thought of downsizing? "Tiny House Nation" shows you how you can take it to the next level, showcasing the best tiny homes America has to offer. If, like over 50% of Americans, you could see yourself in a tiny home someday, "Tiny House Nation," one of several home improvement shows to stream on Netflix, is the show for you, with host John Weisbarth and his co-host, tiny home expert Zack Giffin, helping families create the tiny homes of their dreams, while simultaneously aiding them in their preparations to embrace the eco-friendly, minimalist lifestyle.

Giffin is clearly passionate about tiny homes and is quick to recognize that the popularity of his show isn't just due to the gorgeous interiors that can be achieved in such a minimal space, but also down to the changing landscape of the U.S. — and the world. "Where this is coming from is not just the environmental movement, looking at how we can live with less carbon footprint, but it's really coming from the housing crisis and the economic reality of what a tiny home can do to someone's life, and the freedom that that can bring to somebody's existence," he said in an interview with the "All About Small Living" podcast.

If you haven't watched "Selling Sunset" by now, we don't know where you've been. Perhaps the ultimate viewing for those who love luxury properties, Netflix's "Selling Sunset" takes us behind the curtain at the Oppenheim Group in Los Angeles and follows the ever-changing friendships, alliances, and love lives of the ultra-glam employees. Expect fights, tears, and an astonishing array of Hollywood properties — including a $75 million listing that, as of April 2021, is still proving a little tricky to shift. Poor Davina.

Fans of the mega-hit will be pleased to know that a fourth season is in the works, and realtor Mary Fitzgerald said to expect "some celebrity listings" and "some very, very big deals," according to an April 2021 interview with SheKnows. Fitzgerald also spoke about her famously off-again, on-again friendship with fellow employee Christine Quinn, and said that she was largely avoiding getting sucked into any gossip before they start filming the next season: "I'm sure once we start filming, there'll be plenty of drama. So I don't need to get that started any sooner than necessary."

The wedding of your dreams or the home you've always wanted — which would you choose? Such is the premise of "Marriage or Mortgage," the Netflix show which sees couples try to decide between the two. The couples' decisions are made even tougher by hosts Nichole Holmes and Sarah Miller, a realtor and wedding planner respectively, who work to convince the participants one way or the other. Expect high drama, gorgeous properties, and some pretty nail-biting decisions.

One of the show's biggest strengths is showcasing how much each decision means to the couple and how unique their journeys are. This is embodied by couple Hayley and Andrew, who spoke about their experience to Women's Health magazine. "I think my biggest hope for people seeing our episode, in particular, is that everybody's story is different. Everybody's walk [through life] is different, but that doesn't make anything not normal," Hayley shared, noting, "Whatever decision they make, each person's story is their normal."

If you're a fan of unique home design, it's hard to beat "Grand Designs" for sheer innovation. The long-running British show, which is available to stream on Amazon, has decades worth of episodes to binge, and each episode, host Kevin McCloud sees design aficionados build truly unique homes of architectural beauty. Among McCloud's personal favorites on the show are a home made of shipping containers, a house constructed out of an old water tower, and a home with walls made out of 300 barley bales, according to Grand Designs magazine.

With his extensive experience, McCloud's well-qualified to advise any folks out there looking to achieve their design dreams. "Work with great people! Don't imagine for a moment that you can do everything, most of us can't," he shared in an interview with Grand Designs. "Find an architect who views the world as you do and find a builder who you love working with and with whom you feel you can have a good relationship."

If you like your home shows with a celebrity twist, "Get Organized with The Home Edit" on Netflix has you covered. The series sees Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer of the organization company The Home Edit revamping spaces through endless organization tips and tricks, transforming homes without any huge renovation work or costs. And a serious bonus of watching this show is that you get to see the homes of some of the world's biggest celebrities, including Khloé Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, and Neil Patrick Harris, as Teplin and Shearer use their skills to help their clients get organized.

You'll be amazed at how fast Teplin and Shearer work to refresh the homes each episode — and apparently, that speed isn't just for drama. "We are given a very specific amount of time that we're allowed to even be in the person's home," said Shearer, giving some behind-the-scenes knowledge to Entertainment Weekly. "Then, the crew can only work so many hours so we can't even really go over and they have to film the intro, us meeting the client, seeing the space, going through the items before we even get to the organizing or else there's no show."

"Home" on Apple TV+ is a beautifully shot documentary series that takes viewers inside some of the world's most visionary homes and into the lives of the people who conceived and created them. Throughout the nine episodes of the first season, you'll travel from a home in Bali made totally out of bamboo to a minuscule apartment in Hong Kong that uses movable walls. Throughout, you get to experience the sheer passion behind these creations. Think "Chef's Table," but with houses.

The artful homes on display are embraced by the filmmakers who worked on the series, such as Doug Pray, who directed two episodes. "Both the Austin and the Sweden episodes really made me love those homes. They both actually were quite similar in the way they interplayed with nature," he told Deadline. "You'd be inside, but you felt like you were outside in the woods or out in nature and vice versa. If you're outside, you're not quite sure if you aren't inside. There's just this beautiful blending."

David Bromstad, an HGTV icon and "HGTV star" winner, takes lottery winners from around the U.S. on a journey to find their perfect home in "My Lottery Dream Home." With eight seasons and over 100 episodes, there's plenty to binge — and the properties that Bromstad visits are naturally seriously impressive. The show doesn't waste any time showcasing luxury properties fit for a lottery winner: The very first episode features Rick Knudsen, who won $180 million with their lucky ticket, according to Business Insider.

And, after years of helping lucky folks find their perfect place, now Bromstad's getting in on the action: A special episode of "My Lottery Dream Home," titled "My Lottery Dream Home: David's Dream Home," has him finding his own pad (via Broadway World). The episode — and the rest of the series — is available to stream on discovery+. With so much experience under his belt, we're sure he'll find the right place!