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

Masthead

Big Picture

Window shopping

Shop With Us

Bobbin’ around • Inject joy into your home with this bubbly style

Very Demure • Meet Brat girl summer’s sister, she’s all about timeless, calm and serene decor

10 of the Best

Pack a picnic

Wood-n’t It Be Nice

Modern Transition • Opening up the rear of this bungalow with a cool new extension resulted in a seamless blend of old and new

Coastal connection • This new-build, set against a fragrant pine forest, is all about clean, calm spaces

Shop their style • Bursts of retro flair against a neutral palette can bring a welcome vibrancy

Sun Chasers • A full-time home with a holiday feel, this renovated bach is as bright and merry as a sunny day at the beach

Shop their style • A restrained beach style is a great interiors goal, achieved by a soft white palette, a touch of rattan and furniture with a high comfort factor

The Kiwi Favourites Awards

The Nation’s Favourite Bathroom • The votes are in and Kiwis love a spa-like luxe retreat. Here’s what the country’s favourite bathroom looks like.

Be Our Guest

Leafy Hide Away • Taking cues from Hamptons style, this luminous home suits its family perfectly

Techs Stars • The hottest apps, appliances and user-friendly gadgets to have on your radar as the holiday season approaches

Mi casa, su casa • There’s something satisfying about preparing a warm and inviting guest room. Here’s how to create a space to make loved ones feel right at home

For Every Occasion

Time And Tide

Pantry Perfection • Have you mastered fridgescaping and want to tackle a bigger project? We present your essential guide to pantryscaping

The revivalist • Convert a pile of old books into a fun bedside table. Library-core has never looked so chic

Picture perfect • Upcycle some old photo frames and not only will you win points for your environmental stance, but you can also create original one-offs

Grow Your Own Luck

The constant gardener • For bountiful harvests, there’s much to sow, plant, fertilise and protect as spring moves into summer

Design dynamos • Auckland-based landscape designers Naomi Gray and Claire Talbot offer practical and beautiful solutions to difficult outdoor areas

A Garden of One’s Own • Rachel Clare grows vegetables, herbs and as many flowers as she can fit in her raised garden beds

Eat Shoots And Leaves • In an extract from Connie Cao’s book Your Asian Veggie Patch, the permaculture gardener tells how to grow and cook a summer green

Food

Salad Days • Make like a vege-lante and give your salad game a glow-up with help from award-winning food writer Alice Zaslavsky

Bear Essentials • Matty Matheson from The Bear (aka Neil Fak) is also a chef. Here are some of his recipes

Sound bites

Magic In The Moonlight

Inspector Gadget

Life In Colour