Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an Emmy Award-winning ABC reality television series that began broadcasting on November 3, 2003 as a special and as a regular television series since February 15, 2004 (the show also broadcasts on People + Arts in Portugal, Spain and Latin America), in which a family's house, including all rooms, exterior and landscaping, is made over by a team of builders and designers in 7 days while the family goes off on vacation. It is a spinoff of Extreme Makeover. The series is a production of Endemol USA (the people behind Big Brother, Fear Factor, Deal or No Deal, and other reality shows) in association with Disney/Buena Vista's Greengrass Productions.

The show is one of ABC's top-rated series and has become more popular than the original Extreme Makeover, which struggled to air through its last two seasons and quietly ended with its episodes burned off wholesale in July 2007. The fifth season of the show premiered on September 30,2007. Series reruns began airing on TV Land on August 7, 2007, making it the youngest non-original show to air on the network.

It was announced on February 28, 2008 that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was renewed through the 2008-2009 season.

The show is hosted by Ty Pennington, formerly a carpenter on the show Trading Spaces. It is sponsored by Sears (and their properties, Craftsman and Kenmore), for which Pennington serves as a spokesman and which are prominently featured in the episodes. The series is devoted to rebuilding families' homes when the family is in need of new hope. Some scenes were staged, including the Muppets as guest-stars. During the 2005–2006 season they went to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.

The show also had a series of specials that later became a regular series during the 2004–2005 television season entitled Extreme Makeover Home Edition: How’d They Do That? It was a short-lived spin off of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that featured extra behind-the-scenes footage of what had happened in that week's episode.

International versions have also aired, in Greece, Scandinavia, and later this year, Mexico. In the UK (shown on UKTV Style & Five), the network removes a number of segments that would contravene product placement laws including shots of store signs and product manufacturers, if it is unable to edit these out - they are blurred. The audio feed is also edited to bleep, fade or remove unnecessary mentions of manufacturers or suppliers while leaving references to the house builder, main furniture supplier and kitchen supplier (if different). EndemolUK's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition UK is also in pre-production. The Spanish version of the show "Esta Casa era una ruina" (This House was in ruins) premiered on Monday, November 5, 2007 on Antena3TV during Primetime. The program premiere was watched by 3,664,000 viewers which translates to a healthy 19.9% share of the audience. The Spanish edition will consist of a Series of specials rather than a weekly show. Initially four specials have been filmed, and these will be screened on a monthly basis in Primetime, with each program having a duration of 70 minutes (105 minutes with ad time).

A family that has faced hardship has their dilapidated house completely rebuilt while they are away on vacation for a week. While early episodes renovated houses, the usual approach is to tear down the house on the first day and build a brand new, usually much larger, one, fully furnished. The houses are customized to the families, with rooms reflecting the interests of, especially, the children, and special technology for any unusual medical conditions. Host Ty Pennington usually has a "secret" project which is only revealed when the family sees it. The construction is accomplished with the help of a large army of blue-shirted volunteers and a wide array of sponsor-donated products and services. Written by Jon Reeves