SYDNEY architect Nick Tobias got his first taste of TV fame back in 2011 on Nine's reality flop Top Design Australia, but don't worry if you weren't among the handful of people who watched it. 
Tobias (pictured far right), one of three presenters of LifeStyle Channel's new series, I Own Australia's Best Home, told TV Insider he wasn't much of a TDA fan either.
"I never thought I'd be back on the box (after TDA) because it just didn't turn out to be the show I thought it would be," he says.
Think cheap motel versus a boutique hotel, with the 40-year-old enjoying the travel involved in this latest small screen project from Fremantle Media which will take viewers into 27 of the country's most stylish, quirky, confident or breathtaking homes.
Tobias, along with co-hosts and leading interior designers Gillian Khaw and Tim Leveson (pictured right), showcase the diverse properties and people behind them, with the audience to vote each week for their favourite homes.
"Grand Designs had unquestionably had a big impact," he said of the growing appreciation for architecture and the ambition of those who decide to build their own dream homes. "Most of the homes we've seen in this series show people who are really passionate about their home and have used it to express that sense of self."Meanwhile, Tobias revealed his writer wife Miranda Darling has sold a US network on a pilot idea he described intriguingly as "Beavis and Butthead meets The Muppet Show and Sex And The City."