Best Home Improvement Influencers and YouTube DIY Channels

Just bought a 70 year old house, and it’s lovely, and it also needs lots of work. My list of jobs is long, and while I have I’m getting tired of sifting through mediocre blogs filled with ads and YouTube channels of DIY’ers who barely know what they’re doing and yammer on and on.

My time is valuable and I want to spend it on videos that are well made and quality resources. I’m totally open to good books, YouTube channels, and any other resources you recommend for learning basics about home improvement and appreciate your recommendations.

Have you tried This Old House? I feel like they do a great job explaining everything for the layman

I like to watch these channels on youtube

Toolboxbuzz/ Concord Carpenter: mostly tool reviews and testing but also some home renovation stuff as Rob is a contractor/ remodeler

Stud Pack: it’s a father and son contractor that do remodel. The videos are more of a vlog but there are a lot of good tips in their videos (when I say vlog I mean video progress of their job)

Essential Craftsman: that man is filled with wisdom and he love to share it with the world. Video are kind of long

Home Renovision: it’s just Jeff from home Renovision doing home renovation. Pretty much anything home renovation related, jeff probably done it. There are videos an hour or 2 longs from start to finish, and I think he have shorter videos of certain task/ projects

Perkins Builder Brothers: a carpenter crew from NC building custom homes from start to finish. Their videos is more of a let’s vlog the job site rather than how to build a house, but they do explain their process.

For drywall tips... Vancouver carpenter

-Ron Wharton

Sometime back someone recommended DIY Danie on YouTube and I have been loving her channel and bummed I didn't know about it sooner. Wasn't sure if any of you cool peeps had other great recommendations. I am subscribed to lone fox but I'm not as big of a fan of his. He has amazing content and it's really good. I think I just gravitate towards channels with women and enjoy them more. Nothing against male youtubers. I just like to see more of myself in the youtuber and I am more inspired when I have the "if she can do it so can I" feeling.

I really like Lexi DIY, in part for her style, but also because I just think she's really entertaining. I also recently found The Things We Built, which is good, but too furniture focused. A DIYers I've found through a Google search are either actual designers designing already pretty spaces or show either too little or too much of the process (I think I really like the sped up videos). Anybody else have the same interests and found other good influencers to watch?

So the newest project by Kismet House caught my eye. That bathroom looked very familiar and then I realized Whittney Parkinson did that bathroom at the beginning of 2025. Kismet clearly copied this bathroom and did a collab with Rejuvenation with the illusion that this project design was all hers. No where does she mention or credit any outside influence. Then looking at her kitchen, I did some image searches and Kismet copied her kitchen from Arcadian Revival who posted all the way back in 2021 when Kismet was selling her old house. Props to her and her husband for bringing these rooms to life in their own home but calling yourself a designer when you're duplicating someone else's work down to the teapot on the stove really sucks.

lucky for you I just listed mine out recently. here you go!

Home Renovision for DIY How-to help on everything. This is the god channel, if I could only have one channel to watch it would be this one.

Reality Renovision is the same guy, but project overviews, good for ideas etc.

Vancouver Carpenter for drywall mudding

Funny Carpenter for various tips, carpentry and otherwise

Kody Horvey for Ikea cabinet installation

Stud Pack for a little bit of everything (design ideas, how to do things… lots of good info to pick up)

Marshall Remodel for building a house from scratch mostly by yourself, lots of good info

Tilecoach for tiling and shower waterproofing

Matt Risinger for building science, high performance home building

The Handyman for a little bit of everything (design ideas, how to do things… lots of good info to pick up)

Workin with Wolkon for bathroom design and some how-to (bathroom timelapses with commentary)

Got2Learn for plumbing knowledge

Home Repair Tutor for bathroom how-tos

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the info from these channels will probably take you years to get through, and get you to pro level knowledge.

'See Jane Drill' is a great channel. She puts out great content and information that is helpful for everybody.

My S/O and I are going to be doing renovation on our new home. What are your recommended YouTube channels that are helpful and informative for home projects?

absolutely recommend Ariel Bissetti, she has a very pretty style and is tackling the rooms of her old house one by one and sometimes just corner by corner. It's lovely and realistic as she's doing the vast majority of the work by herself or with the help of her parents, brother and/or boyfriend.

I was curious to hear who inspires you all 😌

Not someone who is making over her home, but I love Alexandra Gater. She's an interior designer who shows a lot of the process of how she creates special pieces or styles things, as well as little projects and especially renter-focused ideas. She's also just so unbelievably sweet

This Old House. You can trust what they say as if it came out of a text book, it’s as legit as it gets. Same with online articles by Fine Homebuilding.

I refuse to watch homerenovision. I have seen him show too many things that’s are completely incorrect, he’s pretty much a hack. A lot of the stuff he’s doing for the first time too, and acting like he knows what he’s talking about. he is no professional

Just bought a house and we have a good amount of cosmetic work to do (paint, wall patches, carpet removal, etc.). What are some good YouTube channels I should be checking out for various DIY jobs? Or other resources you guys recommend are also welcome.

I like Rachel Metz if you like a mix of home decor and improvement. She has a great modern aesthetic. I like seeing her admit faults in her designs and try to improve on it.

I recommend Peonyandhoney [that's her IG and TikTok]. She re-did her first house, and now is remodeling what was once a builder-grade super 90s house into like a modern, moody Victorian look. I dig it.

I also like her because she's local to my area [northeast Ohio], and I met her a long time ago at a concert and she's an incredibly kind human. She posts about her struggle with chronic illness which is inspiring and real.

StudPack is about the best.

This might be a strange request, but does anyone have an good recommendations for female home improvement youtubers?

I’m looking to purchase my first home, and I like getting a sense of how to do home projects via YouTube. Yet, every video I seem to find is of a dude or, sometimes, a heterosexual couple where the dude does most of the work. I can learn from these guys, of course, but I’m a lady and my partner is not into DIY at all. Realistically, I will be doing these projects mostly by myself. So, watching a woman do these kinds of projects is always much more inspiring and motivating for me.

Any recs are appreciated!

Looking for Canada based creators who'd be down to promote a home improvement service, in lifestyle/home-reno/real estate/landlord etc with followings overlapping home improvement to some extent ideally with a Homeowner-age audience.

Looking for long term relationships with influencers, not one-offs. Aiming for nano/micro influencers, comment/dm if interested

Anyone here create home-improvement or DIY content? I’m looking for influencers in that niche who might be open to partnerships. We’re a small startup, so just trying to see who’s interested before we plan out our budget