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    Backyard Builds

    • All the Backyard Inspiration You Need Now!
      Backyard Builds
      All the Backyard Inspiration You Need Now!
    • See Backyard Builds Most Dramatic Transformations
      Backyard Builds
      See Backyard Builds Most Dramatic Transformations
    Features
    • Fun Feature
      Backyard Builds All the Backyard Inspiration You Need Right Now, From Landscaping Ideas to Backyard Studios
    • Sarah Keenlesyside
      Backyard Builds 22 Things You Didn't Know About Backyard Build's Sarah Keenleyside
    • Backyard Builds 7 Bad Habits That are Making You Lose Money on Your House
    • Backyard Builds, Sarah Keenleyside and Brian McCourt
      Backyard Builds See Backyard Build’s Most Dramatic Transformations
    • Backyard Builds 30 Things You Didn't Know About Brian McCourt
    • Backyard Builds Canadian Couple Builds an Epic Amphitheatre in Their Own Backyard
    • Backyard Builds Couple Turns Their Backyard in the City into a Cottage Retreat
    • Backyard Builds Kids' Clubhouse With Rainbow Pencil Crayon Wall is the Stuff of Childhood Dreams
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    Meet the Hosts

    Brian McCourt
    Brian McCourt

    Brian McCourt is a trusted contractor, design expert and real estate flipper. Co-host of HGTV Canada’s Backyard Builds, Brian can also be seen as part of the all-star casts of Home To Win and the new series Family Home Overhaul.

     

    A fifth-generation builder, Brian is one of seven siblings – four of which work in real estate and renovation. It is safe to say that it runs in the family! From a young age, Brian felt drawn to real estate. He would watch his parents renovate small-town Victorian homes while refinishing furniture and scoping out flea markets in their free time. By the age of 19, Brian flipped his first property, and at 25 he had nine successful flips under his belt. Today, he boasts 15 years of hands-on renovation and design experience, functioning as a rare designer-contractor blend. In 2010 he opened the eponymous Brian McCourt Designs to help homeowners transform their houses into inspiring, custom homes.

     

    Brian is passionate about sustainable building practices and he brings the audience along as he learns new, environmentally responsible ways of renovating. Whether it’s incorporating greener products, reducing waste and consumption or transforming scrap into design worthy features. 

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    Sarah Keenleyside
    Sarah Keenleyside

    Sarah Keenleyside is a designer recognized for creating unique and creative environments tailored to the individuality of her clients, running her own successful interior design firm for the last decade. Recently she has focused her attention on her growing family and a variety of successful HGTV Canada series, as co-host of Backyard Builds and as a design expert on Home To Win and the new series Family Home Overhaul.

     

    Sarah’s signature approach to interiors and exteriors is a result of a multi-disciplinary background in art and design. Beginning with an early interest in fine art, she went on to apply those theories to the designed interior while studying Environmental Design at OCADU. Her varied work experience includes residential and commercial interiors as well as experimenting in graphic and industrial design.  

     

    Sarah pulls inspiration from various cultures, design styles, and Canadian materials defining what she sees as the “new” Northern voice. She has lived and travelled extensively abroad which has also influenced her eclectic sensibility and fueled her desire to design in a style that is uniquely Canadian. 

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    About Backyard Builds

    About Backyard Builds When living space becomes unlivable, the answer to your pleas for help may come from the unlikely source of your overgrown and underused backyard. Looking to provide salvation from cramped households in Season 3 of Backyard Builds, are contractor Brian McCourt and design expert Sarah Keenleyside. Armed with the homeowner’s needs and budget, families are left speechless as they see their backyard wasteland turned into a dreamland, with breath-taking custom builds. Whether it’s a life-sized playhouse set back in the trees, a stained glass studio, or a wellness wonderland, extending your living space has never looked so good.
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    Scott McGillivray
    Kortney Wilson
    Sebastian Clovis
    Brian McCourt
    Drew Scott
    Jonathan Scott
    Dave Wilson
    Sarah Keenleyside
    Tommy Smythe
    Jillian Harris
    Todd Talbot
    Samantha Pynn
    Tiffany Pratt
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