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This year, contestants renovate five "authentic '50s dream homes" in "the perfectly named Charming Street, in Melbourne's Hampton East".

Home ownership is becoming less accessible and more people than ever are renting, but stories about renovation on TV, in film and in literature continue to have a powerful effect on us.

This is especially important in programs like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003–20) and Backyard Blitz (2000–), which often focus on people presented as hard-done-by whose lives are changed by renovations that solve their day-to-day problems.

In the Nancy Meyers rom-com It's Complicated (2009), Meryl Streep plays a divorcee looking for a fresh start, who renovates her home and falls in love with her architect, Adam.

In The Notebook (2004), Ryan Gosling's Noah transforms an old plantation estate into his lover Allie's dream home, a gesture that reveals his enduring love.

Many renovation stories can be seen as escapist media that trade on the image of the dream home to sell ideas about wealth, taste and style to audiences unable to afford such things.

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