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.

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Your Home and Garden NZ

YOUR Shopping • New products, places, trends and looks we love

Fresh finds • What’s new in the homeware scene from our place to yours

Sure to rise • Soft buttery shades are a delicious choice in the kitchen. Mix in some retro appliances and a dash of creamy ’50s-style ceramics for a baking day flavoured with nostalgia

Slim & trim • Slender bench seats are masters of flexibility. Fit them neatly into a hallway, entrance, or at the foot of the bed – then carry them off when you need extra seating

Fine art • Wellington-based designer and artist Amy van Luijk creates bold yet delicate images and patterns for packaging, textiles, magazines and more

Smoking permitted • Sensuous glassware in wisps of barely-there colour is the only way to smoke

Life on the ledge • This dark and dreamy room has stolen a move from the tiny-house playbook by using a ledge to lighten the load on the bedside table

INSPIRED BY INDIA • Borrow from India’s rich decor traditions with touches of spice, carved wood and engraved metal – or for a cool, contemporary treatment, use a single intricate motif for a subtle accent

Family fun planner • Relive the magic of storytelling by taking your family on a road trip to remember, thanks to the power of imagination. Here are 10 easy ideas to get you started brought to you by Subaru.

Spiky blooms • Prints of flowers and foliage from arid climates such as Australia, South Africa and beyond combine striking shapes with a soft pink-and-green colour scheme

YOUR Homes • Creative and inspiring New Zealand homes with heart

BOXING ON • Big enough for a family but small enough to put on the back of a truck, this box-shaped 90-square-metre home in Otago has given its creators the simple life they’d longed for

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Only meaningful possessions and favourite art made it into this cosy home where plain wood and simple textiles bring a folk art feel

Tiny living • This creative couple have downsized and decluttered in a bid to simplify their busy lives – and prepare for a new arrival

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Beautiful timber finishes, artisanal ceramics and rich accents of ochre and copper put the luxury into living little

TO THE MAX • A titchy townhouse on the edge of Christchurch’s CBD presented a challenge for a couple who aren’t exactly minimalists – but they didn’t let it cramp their style

SHOP THEIR STYLE • An eclectic look featuring luxuriant greenery, fun collections and sleek metalware brings joie de vivre to this small innercity home

ALL MINE • A lifetime of travel, laughter and love was channelled into this new home, which was the realisation of a lifelong dream for a busy city dweller

NEW-BUILD WORKSHEET

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YOUR Renovation • Expert advice on home alterations, extensions and updates

RENO OF THE YEAR • From ugly tin garage to dusky pink office space in a matter of weeks, these new business owners can call their first project a resounding success

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Time travellers • Full-time renovators (and past winners of The Block NZ) Alice and Caleb Pearson’s latest project is turning a century-old Alexandra cottage into a modern family home

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RENOVATION WORKSHEET

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