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Best Home Improvement Subreddits (November 2026)

Looking for the right home improvement community on Reddit? Here is the lay of the land. We checked the communities Reddit returns for “home improvement” and “diy home”, kept the public, safe-for-work ones with at least 25,000 members that are still posting, and ranked the 5 that remain by size. Together they have 10.7M members.

How the home improvement communities compare

A few giants dominate — r/HomeImprovement, r/homeowners and r/RealEstate together account for 98% of the combined membership. r/HomeImprovement is both the biggest and the busiest, with about 72 new posts a day. Per member, the liveliest is r/homeimprovementideas: 16 posts a day from 134.1K members — a smaller crowd, but an engaged one. Among the communities we track weekly, r/homeowners grew fastest recently (+0.06%, +1.9K members since Oct 26). The oldest is r/HomeImprovement, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.

The 5 biggest home improvement subreddits

  1. H
    r/HomeImprovement ↗ 4,848,670 members · ~72 posts/day · +2.7K since Oct 26 · since 2008

    Only text posts are allowed here. YOU MUST have minimum karma to participate in the sub. Submit here: https://diy.stackexchange.com/

  2. r/homeowners 3,099,214 members · ~31 posts/day · +1.9K since Oct 26 · since 2009

    Homeowners

  3. r/RealEstate 2,523,827 members · ~7.5 posts/day · +764 since Oct 26 · since 2008

    real estate investing landlords landlord borrowing lending mortgages foreclosure loan houses house apartment financing loans buying a house foreclosures foreclosure forbearance home buying homebuying first time homebuyer

  4. H
    r/homeimprovementideas ↗ 134,144 members · ~16 posts/day · since 2013

    Homeimprovementideas is a place to ask questions, show off your projects and learn tips and tricks from others.

  5. R
    r/Renovations ↗ 132,991 members · since 2013

    /r/Renovations strives to provide assistance to homeowners repairing or renovating their own properties. We are also a showcase for DIYers who have completed projects in and around their homes.

What these communities upvoted this week

This week's best-received posts from a few of the communities above — a quick way to get a feel for each one.

  1. Anderson $25,000 dollar front doorr/HomeImprovement · Oct 26
  2. I noticed my neighbor opens his garage door first thing in the morning. A couple of neighbors do actually. Doesn’t matter if it’s in the cold months or in the summer. I wake up, o…r/homeowners · Oct 26
  3. Update on “Landlord is selling the house and is interested in selling to us. Need advice.”r/RealEstate · Nov 1
  4. What's Actually Helped You Lower Your Electricity Bill?r/HomeImprovement · Oct 26
  5. Home repairs is a profit extraction target of private equityr/homeowners · Oct 29
  6. Landlord is selling the house and is interested in selling to us. Need advice.r/RealEstate · Oct 29

Choosing where to post

If you have a question, start in r/homeimprovementideas: it is set up for exactly that, and with about 16 new posts a day there are plenty of people around to answer. Asking the same thing in r/HomeImprovement often gets it removed or lost among the 72 daily posts.

Before posting, sort a subreddit by “Top” for the past month: it shows in a minute what that community rewards. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.

Frequently asked questions

Which home improvement subreddit has the most members?

r/HomeImprovement is the largest, with 4,848,670 members, followed by r/homeowners (3.1M) and r/RealEstate (2.5M).

Where are the most new home improvement posts?

By new posts per day, r/HomeImprovement leads with about 72, ahead of r/homeowners (31). Counts are averages over the last seven days.

Which home improvement subreddit is best for questions?

r/homeimprovementideas is the one built around questions and advice, with about 16 new posts a day. Check its rules and search it first — common questions have usually been answered.

How many home improvement communities are on this list?

We list 5 active, safe-for-work home improvement communities with at least 25,000 members each, 10.7M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.

What is the oldest home improvement subreddit?

r/RealEstate, created on Jun 11, 2008.

Are these home improvement subreddits safe for work?

Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.

Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Nov 6, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.