New series HOMEmade is yet another reality home improvement show amongst a raft of great overseas home-focused shows.
We're not talking 60 minutes makeover (BBC) or even close as this is a two day sort out and the home owners don't get to choose which rooms or garden area they want transformed.
The team of four, very Auckland crew headed by TVNZ property presenter Goran Paladin, tap into New Zealand's love of do it yourself home improvement.
The show follows the makeover journeys of 16 New Zealand homeowners.
Goran is joined by interior designer Melissa Greenough, builder Dion South and landscape designer Dan Mackay.
Each week the four surprise a Kiwi family whose home is in need of major improvement and choose one room to renovate and one area of the garden to transform.
Trust us, they all say beaming, as the family leave home for the next 48 hours.
Because the family don't get to decide which spaces the team will change they need to take the offer at face value and trust the chaps, then hand over their keys and pop back when the deed is done two days later.
I've always enjoyed the Brit series 60 Minute Makeover because it showed very hairy moments and decorating disasters but always resulted in a fab glam up ... in just one hour!
Our two day effort kind of palls in comparison.
Though there is an edge, this show doesn't quite have the razor sharp angst of the Brit programme.
This week the team were in Waitakere to help a family of four with their 1980s faded home in the bush.
The team are set to systematically destroy one of the family's maybe favourite rooms, we don't know for sure.
In this week's episode designer Melissa fell on the crimson bathroom (red bath and all) and she powered in special white paint for the bath, handbasin and a greenish vinyl nature-inspired wall paper with grey vinyl boards for the floor and, whew, the family loved it.
Outside the other guys pull the rotting deck apart and start building the new deck complete with a decorative wall featuring pots of strawberry plants, not mention an arty installation featuring LED blue lights twinkling through an artistic Aztec cut out and swallows in flight.
Whew, again the family adored it.
It's not the most exciting of transformation programmes but it's Kiwi, homegrown and best it's average mid-range families.
So we're not subjected to madly wealthy mansion owners again and that is a huge relief.