Background and career
Bryan Baeumler (born 18 April 1974) is a Canadian television host on several HGTV/HGTV Canada shows. A former handyman and businessman, he translated those careers into a series of TV shows about home renovations in Canada and the U.S. as well as a hotel renovation in the Bahamas. He has won a Gemini Award for his hosting and has published a book on home renovations.
Learning the trade from his father, an aircraft engineer, Baeumler spent his childhood summers constructing his family's cottage. At 14, Baeumler opened his own handyman business doing odd jobs for neighbors. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Business from the University of Western Ontario in 1996.
Baeumler worked from 1995 to 2003 running an air-cargo business. After working as a builder, he founded a construction company, which became Baeumler Quality Construction and Renovations Inc., of which he is president and CEO. In 2011, Baeumler launched Baeumler Approved, a website that aids homeowners in connecting with home-service companies in Canada. Baeumler became the spokesperson of HeyBryan, a peer-to-peer mobile marketplace app that connects homeowners with home-service providers, in 2018. In 2017 Bryan and his wife, Sarah Baeumler, bought an abandoned beachfront resort on South Andros, Bahamas, and renovated it into a new sustainable luxury resort, Caerula Mar Club. Just months before they opened the resort in December 2019, the Bahamas was hit by Hurricane Dorian. Although the storm did not directly hit their resort, their employees were impacted through friends and relations on the devastated islands to the north.
Baeumler has been a host on several HGTV Canada (now Home Network) shows, including Disaster DIY, Disaster DIY: Cottage Edition, Leave It to Bryan, House of Bryan, Bryan Inc. (alongside his wife Sarah), and Island of Bryan, and was a judge on Canada's Handyman Challenge along with Mike Holmes and Scott McGillivray. The Baeumlers have been judges on Battle on the Beach and renovators on Rock the Block. Baeumler was previously under an overall deal with Corus Entertainment. In September 2025, after the company assumed the rights to HGTV at the beginning of the year, Baeumler signed an overall deal with Rogers Sports & Media beginning in 2027, being initially involved in Baeumler Ranch, Sarah Baeumler By Design, and Home Town Takeover Canada.
Disaster DIY is a show on HGTV Canada about "Do-It-Yourselfer"s who have failed at their own home renovations and are in desperate need of some on-the-job training. The show is hosted by Baeumler and directed by Craig Goodwill. The projects on the show take place within the Greater Toronto Area. The show ran from 2007 to 2011.
House of Bryan is a series starring Baeumler's entire nuclear family, him, his wife, and their children; plus his apprentice, Adam. The series covers the construction of various homes that the Baeumlers live in, his dream home, country cottage, and forever home. It became the highest rated series ever on HGTV Canada in 2016. The show ran from 2010 to 2015.
