Which reality show features homeowners opening their doors to strangers for a makeover?

The reality show featuring homeowners opening their doors to strangers for a makeover is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The series centered on families whose homes were completely renovated or rebuilt by a design team, builders, and community volunteers.

The program premiered on ABC in 2004 and was originally hosted by Ty Pennington. Episodes typically began with the team selecting a family that had faced serious hardship, illness, disability, disaster, or another difficult circumstance. While the family was away, the crew worked at remarkable speed, often completing a major renovation in about a week before presenting the finished home.

The famous reveal involved a bus blocking the house until Pennington called, “Move that bus!” The show is often mixed up with Trading Spaces, which usually involved neighbors redesigning one room in each other’s homes, or with renovation series such as Fixer Upper and Property Brothers. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was more openly framed as a large-scale gift and community project. ABC ended its original regular run in 2012, but HGTV and ABC later revived the format.