
Sweet Homes · Season one · Destination America
01 · Overview
Four Friends. Nine Months. One Sweet Home.
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What starts as an idea between friends quickly becomes their biggest gamble yet. Together, they set out to build a million-dollar dream home on Alabama’s Smith Lake before summer’s end, betting that years of friendship are enough to see them through.
Overview
Building a house is one thing. Building it with your best friends? That's a whole different adventure. Sweet Homes follows four friends as they trade familiar routines for the unpredictable world of homebuilding, taking on ambitious designs, tight deadlines, and the realities of turning a shared vision into something extraordinary. Along the way, big ideas meet bigger challenges, personalities collide, and the line between friendship and business gets a little blurry. It's an honest, often hilarious look at what happens when you put everything on the line to build something together. And as the guys quickly discover, the real story isn't just the house they're building, but what it takes to get there.
- Premieres
- Premieres Wed, Nov 18 · 8pm ET / 9pm PT · Destination America
- Watch on
- Destination America, then HGTV GO
- Produced by
- Spry, with Goliath Multimedia
- Fan site
- sweethomes.tv

How it was made
A house and a series, built together
The idea
A lake lot and a show nobody had asked for yet.
The partners
We walked a home show booth by booth, looking for brands with a real part to play.
The build
A house and a series, shot at the same time.
Nov 18, 2026
On air
Premieres on Destination America.
The partners
The stairs that change the room, the cabinets, the grill at the end of the day. Every partner has a part in the build.
The four friends

Derek Miller
The dreamer

Josh Hemingway
The one who said it out loud first

Shannon Fondren
The builder, and the Cullman local

James “Marko” Markovits
Solves it a different way
Put your brand in Season 2.
A new build, a new place. Partner spots are open.
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