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
Dish the dirt • Get growing with the prettiest and most practical garden tools around
Practically perfect • Bring some utilitarian chic to your place with these chore-some picks
Cloth of ages • Nikau Hindin is learning the art of patience as she single-handedly revives the almost-lost Māori practice of making barkcloth
TAP LESSONS • From dark and moody to bright and playful, this season’s best bathroom looks are a decorator’s delight
High lights • Get your glow on with the latest floor lamps in graceful shapes and tasteful finishes
Curve alert • Stray off the straight and narrow with decor that celebrates the soothing symmetry of the arch
Down to earth • Warm terracotta tones lend a grounded feel to the bedroom
Clean and green
Sweet moves • For this family, a shift south meant a near-new home with plenty of space and scope to make it their own
SHOP THEIR STYLE • Potted plants, woven baskets and earthy materials like wood, stone and brass add personality to a modern space
WORK IT OUT • All it took to transform this tired rental property was a creative eye, plenty of hard work and an unusual agreement with the landlord
SHOP THEIR STYLE • Vintage finds picked up for a song and old furniture revamped with paint give this family home a cool, arty style
Chasing the sun • Turning their bach into their permanent home means the holiday vibes don't stop for this family
SHOP THEIR STYLE • A crisp white backdrop is livened up with gold tapware, plenty of house plants and carefully curated beachy accents
Renovation YOUR • Expert advice on home alterations, extensions and updates
Into the light • Replacing a dangerous staircase sparked a major rebuild – and ended with this transformed home that’s full of light and warmth
PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS
RENOVATION WORKSHEET
EXPERT Q&A: RACHEL O’CONNELL, INTERIOR DESIGNER, STYLE MY ABODE
Petite retreats • Design the perfect pint-sized bathroom without skimping on style or practicality
PLUMBING ADVICE • HAYDEN TROW, BAYWIDE PLUMBING
Into the blue • This dreamy new ensuite proves even a small space can be designed to feel like a luxe sanctuary
VIC SHARES HER ENSUITE EXPERTISE
Hello sunshine • Design, colour and styling advice for simple and affordable transformations
White out • In just two months, this dark, smoke-stained cottage was transformed into a sweet and soulful character home on a super-tight budget
All the white moves • Rethink basic blanc with our guide to making it work three ways, from all-out alabaster to pops of pearl
Fab & Fifties • The fun-loving style of the 1950s was the starting point for this Christchurch home’s colourful makeover
Bright stripes • This rainbow wall hanging makes a cute addition to a child’s bedroom – just pick your favourite colours
Finder’s Fi • In the final part of our series, Fi and her fellow magpies share some of the recycling centres turning trash into treasure at landfills around the country
Less waste, more chill • Buying and storing...