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, trends and looks we love

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

Spread out • Assemble a chic picnic hamper packed with reusable serveware in hues of peach and cream

Brush work • Painter Katherine Throne studied painting on a whim, but it is hard work and determination that have built her burgeoning career

Kissed by a rosé • Keep it sweet with homewares inspired by our fave summer drop

SPLASH SEASON • It’s time to gather everything you need for lazing in the shade, sipping zesty drinks, playing in the pool, and repeating until sundown

Lounge around • In colours stolen straight from a Pacific sunset, these outdoor cushions help create a lush, laidback vibe

Bolt from the blue • Cobalt is this season’s coolest hue. Use it as a bold accent for a statement-making colour hit

Tech for me • Smarten up your home for the new year with these enviable innovations from Noel Leeming

YOUR Homes • Creative and inspiring homes with heart

Plan A • A dated A-frame right on Papamoa Beach was the perfect project for this creative couple, who have transformed it into a nostalgic holiday retreat

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Cane furniture, potted palms, beachy bits and a stack of National Geographics capture the easygoing essence of the 1970s bach

History repeats • This mum-of-one with an eye for eclectic design never planned to live in her grandparents’ old Napier villa, but fate had other ideas

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Magpie finds, timeless cane and classic furniture have been mixed with graphic art to create an interior full of interest and meaning

Harbour master • This waterfront Whangārei home was crafted for easy living, close connections to nature and savouring time with family

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Timber floors layered with soft taupes and greys, spice-toned fabrics and natural textures create a welcoming, on-holiday vibe

Island time • Building their idyllic home away from home was just the beginning of this family’s Great Barrier architecture adventure

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Simplicity rules at this blissful bach with bleached wood, worn finishes, beach-combed finds and every shade of blue

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

Raise the roof • A dark and dated Lockwood was the perfect project for this creative couple – and enticed them to trade city life for a surfer’s paradise

RENOVATION WORKSHEET

The wish list • Get inspired for your next renovation with our round-up of 2020’s best benchtops, coolest cabinets and sexiest surfaces

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YOUR Makeover • Design, colour and styling advice for simple and affordable transformations

Summer dreams • Sink into slumber with these light and easy bedroom updates for the warmer months

Tiny but mighty • Renovating and living in a mobile home for more than a year left this family questioning whether they’d want to live in a regular house ever again

Blue dude • A palette of blues and greys has given this Oamaru homestead a super cool new look

Double take • Give your old ceramics a shiny new purpose...