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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Social club • Vintage treasure hunts and rulers of the roost

Your Home and Garden NZ

SHOPPING

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

Wax lyrical • There’s nothing ordinary about these sculptural and colourful candles

Glass half full • From rosy pink to dusky blue, glassware is emboldened by that rainbow connection

Wiggle room • Forget the straight and narrow, these luscious shapes are ahead of the curve

Colour me a rainbow • Organic and vibrant, plant-based dyes are not only aesthetically pleasing, they contain no synthetic chemicals

Top finds this month

Raise the bar • Give your soap a happy home with these dishy finds

Counter balance • Revamp your kitchen bench with these elegant essentials

On form • Two student midwives and best friends share a passion for celebrating the body beautiful

HOMES

Pretty as a picture • Tucked in between towering trees is Five Acre Farm, an enchanting cottage that charms everyone who comes to visit

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Rattan and linen mix with soft colours and pretty floral prints for a modern take on relaxed farmhouse chic

The good life • A stroke of luck brought Pip and Shane McNeil to this lush Whangarei section. Now, with chickens, fruit trees and space aplenty, they can’t imagine themselves anywhere else

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Natural textures and muted colours create a calm, relaxed interior, while wooden hooks provide space to display favourite things

CLASSIC CURVES • The redesign of a multilayered Victorian home heralds a new era where it’s hip not to be square

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Mix classic pieces and handmade ceramics with a muted palette, pops of mustard and plenty of texture for a modern mid-century look

RENOVATION

Garden state • Slowly but surely the garden of this character-filled Tauranga house has become as heart-felt as the home itself

Problems & solutions

Renovation worksheet

The kitchen trend update • The lowdown on the latest looks for the most important room in your home

IT’S TIME TO COME CLEAN • Doing the family wash just got a whole lot simpler and – we’re calling it – stylish

Round the bend • Invite soft curves in with this DIY side table

OPEN TO VIEWS • Time, effort and an expert way with textiles has helped transform an early 1900s house situated on the edge of a hill in Auckland

Style tips

Hit the deck • Make the most of summer with an outside space that can take you from morning coffee at sunrise through to a sizzling barbecue at sunset

FOOD

Quick-smart • Easy, speedy snacks and dinners that not only deliver in flavour but look like you’ve spent much longer prepping them than you have

THAT KID CAN COOK • When children start learning to cook independently, easy and fun recipes are the way to give them confidence. These simple and healthy ideas from Hawke’s Bay chef Alexandra Tylee will have the family cheering from the dinner table

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Summer is just around the corner and it’s time to feed and weed

CONSIDER THIS

A happy bro-mance • Grown horizontally or vertically, it’s easy to fall for bold and beautiful bromeliads

Can’t live without • Claudia Zinzan, the co-founder of retail chain Father Rabbit, talks about what makes her heart sing at home