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.

Shark

This month I’m…

Hello

Social club

Masthead

Shopping

Window shopping

Shop With Us

Over the Moon

10 of the Best

Show your Stripes

Bits & Pieces

Homes

History Lessons • A character home, perfectly positioned for communal get-togethers, came with a few unexpected surprises

Double Take

Diamond in the rough

Container House

Decorate

Rural Delivery • A refurbished former Dutch-style barn maintains the country charm of the original structure as well as becoming a warm and welcoming home

Good dog • How to turn an inexpensive dog ornament into the ulti-mutt light fixture – no need for ap-paws

The Kiwi Favourites Awards • We’re looking for the country’s favourite room designs. Over the next three months, we’ll home in on kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom spaces in a bid to find New Zealand’s favourite rooms.

Makeover

Warm & Cosy

Small but mighty

Gardens

The constant gardener • As the days begin to warm and your garden reawakens, it’s time to prepare soil for summer produce and flowering annuals

The transformers • Outdoor living is part of our Kiwi DNA, says Graeme Hopkins, whose landscaping company celebrates a major milestone this year

Take it outsideo

Outdoor Trends

Food

Fresh and simple

Love at first bite

Living

Sound bites

INSPECTOR GADGET

It’ll be all fright on the night

Chasing the sun • Tracey Finch’s love of a long, hot Kiwi summer is present in all her work

Can’t live without