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 • Good reads, cleaning hacks and model behaviour

Your Home And Garden

SHOPPING

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

Body of art • The female form is celebrated with shapely figures and cheeky designs

Burning love • Be like a moth to a flame around these hurricane lanterns and set the scene for happy summer evenings outdoors

Sideline star • No longer a supporting act, these sideboards are the main event

Checkmate • The rise of the cottagecore aesthetic has propelled this popular pattern back into our homes

HAPPY HELPERS • Here’s how to get some awe and order in your life

GOOD HABITS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY • School’s back, so get the family into a routine with some help from Samsung

Seize a salad • All you need to know about transforming a bland bowl of greens into a superstar dish

Home bases covered • For kitchens, bathrooms, laundries and wardrobes, PlaceMakers has everything you could need

Eye in the sky • Award-winning photographer Emma Willetts captures the breathtaking, and sometimes unrecognisable, patterns of the land from the air

HOMES

Show of colour • With a couple of kids under two, this hard-working tradie has transformed her home one colourful room at a time

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Bold patterns, saturated colours and playful touches combine in an eclectic home that’s utterly unique

The light fantastic • A serene home in Taupo unites breezy neutrals, soft textures and furniture with relaxation in mind

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Cohesive use of white on white with a sprinkling of texture and neutral tones make for an upbeat, yet soothing environment

MODERN LOVE • A previously stark contemporary home is given a lively makeover with bold colour, fearless pattern and travel treasures on display

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Treasured family pieces and decisive splashes of colour and pattern create a warm sense of welcome in this modern home

Natural selection • When a builder and an interior designer created their own home, the result was a considered house rich in details with plenty of glass sliding doors and carefully chosen natural materials

RENOVATION

MAKING A SPLASH • This guesthouse works its magic on the smallest of footprints

DIY SUMMER • Ten home improvement projects to tackle while the sun is shining

How to be sure the weather is right for painting

MAKEOVER

All bright now • Over the years, food editor and stylist Fiona Smith has transformed her home into a colour-filled haven

Style tip

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Seek one-off pieces from all eras at your own pace and up the colour quotient for a look you won’t find elsewhere

Out of the blue • An eye-catching colonial-style house in Napier heroes this cool hue in every corner

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Please be seated • A guide to choosing, placing and maintaining outdoor furniture, so you can relax in style

Style tip

FOOD

GRILL SEEKERS • Add some sizzle to the great New Zealand barbecue – with delicious flavour bursts of citrus, herbs and spices

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Enjoy the high-summer bounty and crack on with your February prep

Let it grow • Stylish inspiration for bringing the outdoors inside – whether you want just a...