HGTV Smart Home revealed

HGTV’s new giveaway house is not a fixer-upper at all. The 2026 Smart Home is a brand-new Orlando build, and the prize package is valued at more than $1.3 million, including the house and $100,000 in cash. (hgtv.com) (prnewswire.com) The house is over 3,000 square feet with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, and HGTV says it was built to feel like a resort instead of a showcase full of gadgets. The design leans on big indoor-outdoor spaces, with sliding access to a backyard set up more like a hotel pool deck than a suburban patio. (prnewswire.com) (hgtv.com) HGTV handed this one to Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt, the married hosts of “100 Day Dream Home,” and that matters because Orlando is their home turf in Florida. The network says they handled the interior design, while Hartizen Homes built the house itself. (nationaltoday.com) (prnewswire.com) Outside is where the house gets unusually specific. HGTV and Warner Bros. Discovery say the backyard includes a pool, a swim-up bar, a putting green, an outdoor projector, and a grill station, which turns the whole property into a permanent vacation setup. (prnewswire.com) (tvinsider.com) Inside, the house is split between everyday rooms and play spaces. HGTV says there is an upstairs game room with a multi-sport simulator and a downstairs lounge with a multi-screen setup built for movie nights and game days. (prnewswire.com) (hgtv.com) The “smart” part is less about one robot-like feature and more about packing connected ideas into normal rooms. HGTV is promoting the house through a full “smart features” tour, which frames the technology as built into lighting, entertainment, and daily routines rather than added on as a separate room full of screens. (hgtv.com) One room got a family co-designer. Brian and Mika brought in their daughter Jade to help shape the teen bedroom, and HGTV’s photo tour shows the result with a checkered accent wall, layered textiles, and skateboards reused as wall shelves. (nationaltoday.com) (hgtv.com) That detail also explains the tone of the whole project. Instead of making every room look like a futuristic showroom, the designers mixed soft Florida textures, rattan accents, linen, and playful rooms that look lived in by actual people. (prnewswire.com) (hgtv.com) The sweepstakes itself opens on April 21, 2026 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time, and HGTV says viewers will be able to enter through late spring. So the reveal this week is really the opening act: first the tour, then the rush of daily entries from people trying to win a furnished Orlando house with a pool bar attached. (hgtv.com) (nationaltoday.com)