Best Renovation Movies

Blandings has a dream of getting out of the crowded, cramped city and into the country where can renovate an old house and... have the most frustrating experience with a deal too good to be true... because it is. But hey, happy ending?

Daniel-son renovates Miagi's house exteriors, like walkways and fence, plus a car's exterior... all while renovating his exterior through... karate.

She brings love and joy and mischief to a quiet European village after renovating an old dusty store into a delightful chocolate shop.

Ray turns a baseball field out of a corn field in Iowa, which can be mistaken for heaven.

An addition to the Banks' house, due to a new addition to the Banks family.

In an exaggerated and updated version of "Mr. Blandings" we see two unlikable people try to make an unlikable situation into something likable, but everything goes wrong, of course! But hey, happy ending?

An abandoned building is renovated into a fake college, S.H.I.T (South Harmon Institute of Technology) for those who can't get into even the shitty colleges.

Buster attempts to fix up a house on wheels... in one week where nothing goes right.

Three friends retreat to the woods to build their own little paradise, repurposing enough objects (some stolen from actual home construction sites) to make their hideout.

The husband and wife foster houses, by renovating and flipping them, then they foster children... and do a little renovating, but no flipping.

They made love in an old, abandoned house, their love motivated him to renovate the hell out of it while she was banished from seeing him... and maybe, just maybe, make love to her again in the now pristine, restored house.

From dud duds to stud duds






And from punk to trained assassin