Whether you’ve had to permanently squeeze an office, a classroom and/or a couple extra loved ones into your space-challenged living quarters — and at this point, haven’t we all? — you’ll no doubt relate to the real-life families of Hack My Home. 

You’ll also no doubt wish you had your own personal team of charismatic design and engineering experts to descend on your home, wave their magic tape measure and whip up dream concepts. (Think secret bedrooms, extended ceilings and closets that literally shrink into walls.) Hack My Home features the true stories of eight families who aren’t ready or able to part with their existing homes but whose changing lives have pushed their square footage to the absolute limit. Or have they? A team of whiz designers and engineers, including Brooks Atwood (Design Star) and Mikel Welch (Murder House Flip), deliver inventive, robotics-minded, sky’s-the-limit hacks that transform each family’s lives and give viewers some aspirational inspiration. 

Hack My Home blends the before-and-after look of home reno shows like Instant Dream Home, the space-saving DIY solutions of House Hacks and the uplifting human stories of Queer Eye. As the new trailer points out, “The world is changing. Families are spending more time at home and they’re running out of space.”

When will Hack My Home be released?

Stream all eight episodes now.

Who’s in the cast of Hack My Home?

• Brooks Atwood (Innovation): With a head of wild, wintry-hued hair (somewhere in between Albert Einstein and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future), Brooks’ mad-scientist ingenuity lives up to his looks. Here, the architect — who’s previously appeared in Shop Class and Design Star — thinks up innovative solutions custom-created for each home.
   
• Ati Williams (Construction): You may recognize Ati from her appearances on design stories for CNN, HGTV and ABC. In Hack My Home, the skilled contractor draws on her specialized talents for envisioning and actualizing multifunctional room layouts in small spaces.
   
• Jessica Banks (Engineering): Jessica is an engineer and a roboticist whose design company specializes in kinetic furniture. She whips up pieces that aim to actually, logistically transform how people live — and objects that are all about experience.
   
• Mikel Welch (Design): Mikel’s decorating résumé is, shall we say, formidable — both Halle Berry and Oprah Winfrey are among the names on his client roster. He may have an eye for the upscale, but the seasoned TV host (Murder House Flip, The Drew Barrymore Show) is still down to roll up his sleeves and dig into a DIY project.

What happens in Hack My Home?

In each episode, the team meets with a new family to take stock of their particular housing conundrum — and, most important, to hear their individual stories. A beyond-cramped home classroom needs to make space for a new student-sibling. The home office of a vegan food truck business has swallowed up a family’s dining room, with relatives camping in the basement. A grandmother and grandfather are trying to create privacy for their four beloved granddaughters in a crowded open-floor plan — without sacrificing the uniquely cool character of their ’70s dome home. 

Thinking not just outside the box, but above and below it, Brooks, Ati, Jessica and Mikel reimagine every square inch, nook and cranny of their spaces with wildly original hacks. It’s worth watching not just to see true creativity at work (and the witty back-and-forth behind the scenes), but also the emotional reveal when each family gets to step into their transformed spaces. 

Where does Hack My Home take place?

Season 1 of Hack My Home takes place in real-life family houses in and around Atlanta.