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

Masthead

Social club • Give new love to old items

Shopping

Window Shopping

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

Blue Hue • For calmness and serenity, take your colour cues from sky and sea

The great Outdoors

Happy Hunting Grounds • From countertop espresso maker to low-tech moka pot, here’s how to raise your home barista game

10 Of The Best • Wake up and smell the coffee once you’ve fired up your machine

Homes

Castle On The Hill • This artistic enclave on Waiheke Island embodies a Mediterranean sense of warmth and welcome

Surprise Package • Strategic use of colour and upcycled design finds add character and the drama to a new off-the-plan build in Hamilton

Second time Around • A stylish renovation, 10 years after the first one, has transformed this bungalow into an open-plan oasis

Decorate

Saving Grace • Keen to care for the planet, a savvy designer revamped a harbourside home destined for demo with a light touch – no bulldozers required

Cosy Up your home • When it comes to your living spaces and bedrooms, think plush and lush. Here are our top tips and trends to keep your room warm, comfy and looking its best

The revivalist • As fashionable now as they were in the late 1800s, it’s easy to see the beauty in pressed tin ceiling tiles

A triumph of Colour • This year’s Resene Colour Home Awards winner couldn’t fit in with their neighbours — so they went all out instead

How To... Preserve Your Privacy • Follow these expert tips to avoid awkward eye-meets with the neighbours

Makeover

A fresh change • A couple move cities to embrace a new lease of life, not just for themselves but for a 1920s home as well

Ebb & Flow • In an edited extract from her new book, Aussie interior designer and photographer Ingrid Weir visits designer blogger Victoria Smith’s coastal cottage

In The Frame • Using Resene wallpapers or murals as a framed print is a fantastic way to add drama

Gardens

The Constant Gardener • It’s time for planting new fruit trees, popping in some leafy green seedlings and planning spring crops

Scents Of Place • A peek at Auckland designer Kristine Crabb’s tropical paradise

Wintering Over • The 10 best things you can do for your garden and plants this winter

Pocket Rockets • Insta gardener and Garden Hacks author Filip Johansson shares a fast and fun way to grow some delicious edibles

Food

Bowl me over • Nothing is more comforting than a hearty soup on a chilly day, especially when you add next-level accompaniments

Dinner Time • If you’re in need of meal-time inspiration, give the family roster a delicious makeover

Sound bites

Living

Inspector Gadget

Warm fuzzies • GET COSY AND TEST YOUR HOME TRIVIA KNOWLEDGE WITH OUR QUIZ

The High Note • Opera costume and set designer Tracy Grant Lord is setting the scene for her best show yet

Baby, it’s cold outside

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