User Reviews

Well, I looked at negative comments and I didn't understand why. It is a good show for me. (actually what do you expect? Watch and enjoy, that's all.) I really love home transformations generally I love watching tlc also but that was a little different. 3rd episode was so emotional. Hosts are annoying a little and I didn't understand unnecessary joy when they were visiting homes,so fake. I watched first 5 min and last 13 min. I skipped construction part and that was enough. This is a good show. Not only hacking the homes, they are creating magical spaces for families. ( actually hacking is something different in my opinion, they really construct from zero in some episodes) I loved it and please do not listen negative comments. It is really not 1 point show.

I really love the hacks - like at the end of the episode and stuff. Always cool to see what they come up with and how they transform the spaces... but man is it hard to sit through when they are at "the headquarters" and how they communicate with eachother. It has this forced excitement and almost feels like they are being fed dialogue off screen to say. It doesn't feel authentic.

I wish they had a better cast of people that vibe better. The guy with the curly big hair is a little much. I really get turned off by people trying to force comedy. And this show has a lot of that...

Other than that though - the creative of these people is pretty impressive.

Did NO post-production person notice how many times they say "hack" AND that they use it incorrectly. I mean, if you want a new drinking game, the show works. I have only seen two episodes but I feel like MIT might be something you hear repeated a lot. I hope they read reviews and make a few changes to the script. It has potential, but I might not make it to episode 3. Some of the ideas are cool, not really easy for the average person to implement. While I like to see it, how possible would it be for others to learn from it and use that knowledge? I wonder if the characters develop a little more, but as of right now, I dont know how much I like them. IN short, STOP SAYING HACK!

Except I guess for the first episode, the rest of the "hacks" are just throw away all your garbage, and tear down a wall to have more space and light.

You see families that cannot have anything organized asking for help, when the only thing they need is a proper furniture. I wonder what would be the look of all those places a month after the renovation.

Basically they have more than they can store, so in all the "afters" you see a lot less crap. Like the teenage girl's room. Her room had personality and junk, so they got rid of everything and turned it into some generic Barbie house. Don't talk to me about the guitar storage, it didn't make sense.

Anyway, it is a nice show to watch, maybe get a few ideas, and wonder all the time why are they doing what they do.

This show is charming, kind of like Queer Eye but for home solutions. I do find some of the hosts a tad annoying, but I have seen much worse (plus I'm British, so my threshold for American TV presenters is pretty low).

The best parts are the first 5 mins and the last 5 mins - meeting and family and their problems and then going through the final reveal. The bit in-between is where I tune out and scroll through my phone and glance up everytime they say "HACK!" And that's fine, not every show has to be a 5* blockbuster.

The designs are pretty clever, and there's 4 hosts with different things to consider so they all work together to make sure things are safe and functional.

The styling is a bit underwhelming, but for a (presumably) free makeover (money is not mentioned once in this show) it's not bad really.

Everyone in the reviews asking "why don't they just move house, why did they have so many kids" is so ignorant. There are tonnes of valid reasons for people to upgrade their current home than move to a different one.

The very best part is the joy of the homeowners when they see the reveal. It's really humble and heartwarming. I would continue to watch this forever if I could!

Literally the most annoying thing about this show is the absolutely unbearable use of the work "hack" to describe every minor thing that's changed. It's honestly not a bad renovation show and they do some unique things but it's like the producers have them a quota for the word that they must make or the actors will be tortured. We put added a lamp to this room, hack! We threw out all the garbage you had over here, hack! Bought you a regular desk from Walmart, hack! Just let it flow instead of trying to force the use of one particular word over and over. Especially when it almost never even applies.

Ropes that hang from the ceiling in the kid's room? Spinning mirrors with shelves where bottles can fall off into a black hole and hands can get stuck? Moving closets that can be used as impromptus amusement park rides? Yas, let the lawsuits begin.

And it has not escaped my notice that these homes end up with a lot less stuff than they started with. And where is all this stuff? Sitting in storage containing on the curb, most likely, where it will all be dumped someplace inside the house, and they'll be right back where they started.

Seriously, I do appreciate what the show is doing for these families. But there are so many safety hazards I cringe with each episode.

I had fun watching the show. It was a welcome distraction despite the fact that the hacks were mostly BS. I mean more than half of the hacks the team came up with were either impractical or dysfunctional or downright dangerous. And the useful ones were mostly very pricey for regular folks. Still it was fun to watch interesting/weird solutions implemented and find some inspiration here and there. But if they make a new season, they should at least avoid hacks moving vertically (and oh my god moving slowly at that). Also, I should say it just hurts to see stools provided as dining chairs, come on team!

So tired of every little thing now being called a "hack" & since that is in the name of the show they say it every few minutes. There were good, creative ideas, designs, & innovation, so please call them those grownup things, & not "hacks". The show tries too hard to make their hosts interesting by making them look & act eccentric & kooky to the point of it being fake. Ati Williams is the only one of the hosts who came across as real & personable. Kudos to the actual carpenters behind the scenes that do the actual work.

I would love to see the condition of the house in the first show a few weeks later with the 4 out of control boys who had no respect for anything. They were too old to be purposely dumping paint on themselves in the workshop - no adult tried to reign anything in. There's a difference between being creative & just allowing them be messy & rude. I wonder how long it was before one of the boys squished one or more of his brothers with the push button moving wall in the kids' tv area or jammed it up because of toys underneath? With all the moving components, the space only works if the kids are taught how to help pick up after themselves. They need to have respect for their home, the space, the things in it & their parents. They didn't have it before, so they can't learn that with the nice space given to them if they are never taught or made to be responsible.

Not sure if I will watch more episodes, there was a lot going on that was hard to stomach.

This team genuinely helped people's lives with their craft and it was very emotional to see, especially since the participants were so endearing! A home is so much more than just a building and we all deserve to feel as comfortable and happy as possible in it.

Plus the team's ideas were so smart and innovative, both in concept and execution, which made watching the show unique and very entertaining. The casting diversity both in participant and team members was also really refreshing to see!

My only negative point would be that some parts of the creative/construction process dragged a bit too long at times and that the team often feel a bit too stiff/unnatural in their delivery, but these negatives are easy to ignore.

The show is charming, quirky, and nicely positive (perhaps too much for some?).

I personally enjoyed the hosts, albeit they're mostly eccentric - the show has a positive kind of hokey feeling to it, that gets close but didn't feel like it crossed the overly campy line. I've worked in some artsy/crafty circles so they don't rub me as quite so disingenuous. I do hope that the interactions are predominantly real, if they're not - I'd definitely ask that the show runners don't force the chemistry, people can pick up on it.

The innovations are quite entertaining to see - the spaces are so very different from how they're originally presented.

A small personal gripe; 'hack', while I definitely get it and there certainly are many technical hacks - it feels like it's kind of detached from what perception may be? I'd propose that when people hear 'hack' that its perceived as something they could potentially accomplish themselves as well, and while they may find inspiration here - this is definitely far removed from personally achievable unless you have quite a bit of money ( something else that's quite clear, a lot of money went into these renovations ). Additionally, there are aspects of some of the innovating where they feel very 'in the now', but don't quite make as much sense for the future for some of these families. Like the solutions were brilliant and resolve the issues they currently have, but may result in further renovation down the road. It's a mixed bag in that regard, since they do address some 'future-proofing'; just sometimes it comes off / out like it was thrown in rather than really being cohesively thought out and purposeful.

Overall, as long as you don't mind some potentially big personality(ies), quirk, some blatant use of the title name-sake 'hack', understand this is definitely a kind of popcorn/entertainment show and not overly deep, you'll be able to enjoy the charm and innovation.

Definitely watchable if you generally like the before and after nature of interior design shows.

I am usually very skeptical of shows like this because they follow a formula that ends up being so boring. This show is not like that. I really enjoyed watching it. I found some of the hosts great and others a bit annoying but overall, they get along great with each other and they stray away from those typical hosts that end up being so lame.

I found the show fun and so different. It's refreshing to see a new take on these kinds of shows. The hacks are great and I find myself inspired by their ideas. I especially loved the episodes of the families in great need that had their issues completely solved by their hacks.

Great show, I want another season!

I really like this show. I like watching this kind of programs however, this is the best I've seen so far.

What I like the most is that they don't do this transformations in x number of hours. It normally stresses me out the ones that have to complete the renovation in a impossible time.

This one take their time to do the actual job and gives you a sense of security that every detail is being taken care of. Nobody is rushing.

Also, what I like is that in this show, no one pretend that something break in the middle of the installation or thar something went wrong and they won't be able to deliver. I hate that drama from the other shows. In this one, everything goes smoothly.

Really like the show. Hope there are more to come.

I agree with most of the positive reviews here, and most of the negative ones to some extent! It's got some flaws with overacting of a staged sort of feeling. But I like it and hope to see more. Ati is a super, straightforward role model type. I like the rest of them too including their 'everything' carpenter.

I SUPER-agree with the reviewer who suggested getting this to the level of helping more people, who have less to start with. With these reno shows it makes you think, Wow with that budget, what could they have done for a lot more people. The focus on crowding and lack of privacy is so good.

This show makes no sense. It's people saying "Hey, I have this 1,200 s/f home that I paid $175K for and it doesn't work for my family of 6 anymore (it never did), so instead of buying a bigger home, give me $400K worth of ridiculous technology for free instead of me buying a home 2x the size for an addtl. $100K."

Everything is over-engineered and the cost has no place in conversation to the point where it might be an amazing transformation, but it is not cost effective for a real human being to employ any of these "hacks". I don't thing that something that costs more money than just buying a bigger house can be considered a "hack".

The difference with this show is that there's some really interesting and intriguing engineering going on. (Love that there's a woman engineer, by the way!) It's smart and the designs they create really do seem to be mindful of the family needs, not just what the designers want to to do flex their designy muscles. I flipped through the episodes before I watched any of them, and immediately wished there were episodes centered on designing for kids - more adult stuff, but after watching the episodes, I can say that even the stuff they do for kids is pretty interesting, and not just cutesy stuff. It definitely made me think about a few things I would want to do at my own home.

Hopefully new episodes are on their way!

A secret door in a bookcase (amazing!); a hidden room under a staircase (incredible!); an expanding dining table (magical!); glass shelves over a window (astonishing!). What could possibly lie ahead? I wonder. A bed hidden in a wall, or perhaps a sofa that converts into a bed. Will wonders never cease?

Such is the ingenuity of Netflix's latest house makeover series, "Hack My Home," or "Handover My Tacky House to Hacks." The brain trust responsible for quartermastering the gadgetry--gurus of the spatially challenged--read like a roster of Justice League Interior Decorators: someone on Design, on Innovation, on Construction, on Engineering. The one from MIT figures out, I know not how, that a dining table can actually expand (affirmative inaction). Could she possibly conceive of a more comfortable way to dine than sitting on stools? In Episode Two, the one on Innovation has a novel idea of storing the homeowners' junk in the crawl space (of course, they thought their junk looked better in the sunroom). Next, the team visit a futuristic house stuck in a time warp. Their mission, which they've accepted, is to bring it into the present. So back at HQ, the team brainstorm innovative solutions: for a closet, a Lazy Susan; for beds, pods; and for storage, steps that are draws! Needless to say, no credit is given to Thomas Jefferson, who invented the Lazy Susan in the 18th Century, nor to the Japanese, who created Tansu in the 17th, and sleep pods in the 20th (1979, in fact).

Not to make more of it than what it is (a thirty-minute sugar rush), it's just another in the vein of white noise at mealtime, same design, different hacks.

Absolutely love this show! No drama, no conflict, just a good renovation show that absolutely tailors to the homeowners. Some of the ideas, er should I say hacks, were really ingenious! These individuals deserve a lot of kudos for some of the ideas they came up with and ways to create multi-use areas in the home.

The cast is great and you can see how much they really want to make the spaces they renovate fit with the homeowners needs. They also go the extra mile a lot of the time and fix up areas of the home that were not originally discussed.

All around a great, easy show to watch without question. For people who enjoy home renovation shows, this one should be an easy hit!

This a show I went into with some skepticism. I don't enjoy overly scripted "reality" television. However, I found the hosts to be very entertaining and the renovations (hacks) to be super impressive. It made my wife and I wish we were smarter or had enough money to do renovations of this type.

The only downside is the over use of camera work. Don't show an interaction that's supposed to be "spontaneous" and have it seen from five different angles with zero continuity.

In closing, give this fun show a chance. Especially the "igloo" house. That one was really cool how they helped the family in that episode.

What annoys me the most is, that most of these great hacks are known furniture that can be bought be anyone (classroom desks, moving walls or telescope tables). I hate that there is no credit to the actual inventors of this. The things they really hack like that class roomm in the basement, suppliance hidden in kittchen storage or turnable mirrors are just such a space waster... It would have been no effort to walk around the house comapred to having a hole in the floor... Good luck on reselling sell the house...You see these people with all their stuff and when they tour the new house it is so empty. I wonder how they fit in all their belongings again.