I’ve been watching DIY network marathon all weekend and I’ve come up with a couple of new show ideas that I thought might be fun:

The first is a show where the host helps a small business such as a restaurant or bar use money saving tips to update or remodel their establishment. I’ve seen a similarly themed idea utilized on the Gordon Ramsey show Kitchen Nightmares on FOX, which takes a restaurant and attempts to turn the business around in hopes of making it profitable. Kitchen Nightmares, however, doesn’t delve into the nuts and bolts of the makeover like this show would though.

Kitchen Nightmares has featured a number of “dining room makeovers,” and the idea of taking an established business and remodeling it to bring in customers just sounds neat. I’ve also seen this concept done once on Renovation Realities, and it was a good episode to watch, so it seems like an idea that would work well in this recovering economy.

The second show is about renovating haunted houses, where the host gives the viewers a brief history of the house as well as the haunting as the owners talk about their remodeling project. Not sure if there are enough haunted houses to go around, but it sounds like a fun idea just the same.