Help! I Wrecked My House is unique in its premise, and also its inception. The reality renovation show was actually inspired by Jasmine Roth — or, her inbox. "I own a company called Built Custom Homes. And people reach out to us all day, every day, [writing], 'Please help me, please help me. Can you come do my house?'" Roth said. "And within those messages, a lot of them literally say, 'Help, I wrecked my house.'" The HGTV star was getting tons of these emails, and so was HGTV. So Roth and the network got together to not only help all those people that made a horrible DIY mistake but also to entertain and educate others along the way.
And people do need help. "If I wasn't able to go in and help them, honestly, I don't know what they would do," Jasmine told The List. "These are people that literally have watched HGTV. They've watched YouTube. They've watched whatever it is. They've read a book. They saw their dad do it. And they're like, 'I can do that.' And they ruin their houses." For many homeowners that appear on the show, it's not just their design concepts that are at risk, as Roth revealed, a lot of them were working with tight budgets before they messed up, and since they need to call in the experts, "the stakes have never been higher."
