Your Home and Garden

Your Home and Garden shows you how to create a home that reflects your personal style. From decorating tips to easy DIY craft projects and expert gardening advice, it is packed with inspiring and affordable ideas for when you are renovating, building or simply updating your home.

Hello

Social club • Serving up tomatoes, apples and style

Masthead

Shopping

Window Shopping

Shop With Us • EXPERT STYLE IS JUST A CLICK AWAY WITH THE YOUR HOME AND GARDEN SHOP. SHIPPING INCLUDED

Claws and effect • Treat yourself to cute crustaceans – it’s time to be a bit shellfish

10 of the best • Give us shelter at the beach with this round-up of sun umbrellas

Head over heels • Skip the hearts and roses this Valentine’s and give your love the gift of something they actually want

Homes

Coastal Calm • Inspired by Japanese and Scandi design principles, a Bay of Plenty couple create a serene family retreat

Two For One • A sustainable, stylish Lake Taupō holiday home houses two families side by side

Bold Move • For their sixth house, these seasoned builders have created a home that combines dramatic architectural details with practical, family-friendly living

Get Into The Grove • With plenty of passion and a lot of persistence, an Auckland couple create a rural dream with vibes of the Med

Fairytale Ending • A dated Christchurch house is transformed into a stunning modern home

Renovation

Paradigm Shift • A downsizing move became a more ambitious project than anticipated for a retired Auckland couple and their wider family, with elegant results

My kitchen Rules • Plan your kitchen according to the way you live, not the other way around

Shades of history • An iconic Wellington house shines just as bright, years on

Makeover

Monastery Of The Moon • An 18th-century South African monastery and former avant-garde artist’s studio is transformed into an oasis for a creative, resourceful couple and their young family

Ready to Tumble

Gardens

The constant gardener • Late summer is traditionally the hottest time of the year and is also a good time to plant seeds for the cooler months ahead

New ways to use common plants • While there may be little new under the sun, there are new ways – or ways new to us - to use many of our common garden plants

Food

Sweet surrender • Cherries, berries, plums and more – get ready to make the delicious most of peak produce time

Classical Studies • Succumbed to the Thermomix revival yet? Try these classic Greek dishes, created with the help of the cult kitchen accessory

Sound bites

Living

Dark academic if…

Inspector Gadget • Sorry, boss, we won’t be going into the office for a long, long time, thanks to the Logitech Casa Pop-Up Desk

Over the hills • Childhood road trips inspire an award-winning design

Can’t live without • Bohzali founder Emma Martin’s shares her five must-haves