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 • Piping hot tea, served up fresh

Masthead

Shopping

Window Shopping

Happy Birthday To Us • Shop Your Home and Garden is turning one. To celebrate, we’re looking back at the best of the year, from art prints flying off the shelves, satisfied customers and watching vendors flourish in our vibrant online community

Better with butter • Press one of these dishes into service and you’ll wonder how you ever went without

Hot chocolate • Get down with brown in all its chestnut, umber and golden glory

Meat & Greet • Ninja’s “World of Woodfire” proved to be a real smoke-show

Sweet retreat • A delicious mix of cream, sugar and spice, this serene selection of new season neutrals will sweeten any homecoming

Homes

Mid-Century Magic • A small alteration project turned into a year-long makeover that gave this family time for much meditation and design contemplation

In The Moment • This Manawatū new-build embraces slow living and a bond with the natural world

A Colourful Life • Design duo Bonnie and Neil turned their hands to their own home with the same exuberance and passion they bestow on all their projects

Decorate • PRIVATE SCREENING Want to create your very own media room to hunker down and binge-watch your favourite programmes? We’ve got the lowdown on page 84.

Feel - good statements • A stone’s throw from a palace, a fashion model’s eye for preserving period details marries beautifully with new design, vintage finds and Italian ceramics

Soft Touch

Light & shade • In an extract from her book A Handmade Cottage, thrifty Brit decorator Jodie May Seymour shares a crafty DIY project

The Big Picture

Makeover

Made by hand • Though Brits by birth, this Invercargill couple demonstrated a can-do Kiwi attitude in the DIY-heavy creation of this rural paradise

So grounding • From colour tiles to crazy paving, the latest flooring ideas will sweep you off your feet

Rental Homes • Writer and rental queen Katherine Ormerod shares the seven questions to ask yourself and the landlord when entering this property minefield

Gardens

The Constant Gardener • It may be cold and frosty in your neck of the woods but there’s still plenty to harvest, sow, prune, mulch and plant

Dream Garden • Yes, you can have a beautiful, low maintenance garden with all the bells and whistles and still be environmentally sustainable

7 Traditional Māori Gardening Practices To Adopt Or Adapt • Celebrate the appearance of the Matariki star cluster, traditionally a time to plan for the upcoming growing season

Feel The Heat • Sleek, ornate or rustic, there’s a firepit out there to turn your outdoor space into a cosy destination

Food

Sunday Roastcream, to serve • Lamb, chicken, pork or beef ? Make your family’s favourite for a cosy night in

Gnocchi Twice • Take one knockout recipe, then up the ante with two sensational sauces

Code red • Don’t know your pinot from your cab sav? Sip this way to find out what to explore and pour

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Living

New Plymouth • Known for its sunny clime, the Taranaki city is a mecca for art lovers, foodies and adventure seekers

Show of colours • Enter the bright and blooming beautiful world of Wānaka-based artist Agate Rubene

Home sweet home...