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 • Go-to reno inspo and a game of Would You Rather...?

Your Home And Garden

SHOPPING

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

Creature COMFORTS • Practically purrfect accessories for your furry friend

MUSHROOM MAGIC • Go foraging for these enchanting fungi-inspired lamps

Feet first • These eye-catching doormats make a fun first impression

Get cracking • Egg-inspired homewares will have you scrambling for more

Meal planner • The eternal question in our household is “what’s for dinner?” Perhaps you can relate?

Top finds this month

All in a day’s work • Former The Block NZ winner, Amy Moore, is putting her eye for style into her very own retail store

Falling for autumn • As we turn our attention indoors, this season makes us rediscover the beauty of being at home

Style tip

Seasonal adjustment • It’s time to say sayonara to summer and welcome autumn into our homes with a new mood

HOMES

the bright side • Interior designer Kim Stephen’s home combines her signature flair for colour with a clever use of its relatively compact spaces

Cool, Charm & collected • A carefully considered extension to a compact bungalow has given an Auckland family some much-needed breathing room – and extra display space

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Years of careful collecting coupled with some bold decorating decisions has resulted in a cherished family home

Head for the hills • A creative couple designed and built their forever home in Gibbston Valley, with space for all the family including the horses

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Adding warm wood, vintage pieces and quirky details has given a new family home a rich, lived-in feel

BEYOND THE PALE • Influenced by holidays abroad, this family’s transitional villa embraces the colour and vibrancy of exotic Turkey and Morocco

SHOP THEIR STYLE • By mixing treasures found overseas with practical family furniture, this family’s bungalow exudes an easy, worldly flair

To the lighthouse • An architect built his home to be completely private from the front, open at the back and with a surprising night-time element

RENOVATION

New chapter • Author Alice Nelson and her husband Danny saw great potential in this home. Their recent renovation is the latest update in a century-long tale of transformation.

Steel this look • Transform the look of your home with the head-turning new Matte range from COLORSTEEL®

TILE COUNSEL • Textured, contemporary, geometric or traditional? For colour, pattern and enduring style, here’s what’s hot for walls and floors

Style tip

WELCOME MAT

TOUCH OF WHIMSY • With a splash of colour and bucketloads of charm, two small children’s rooms are beautifully transformed

Top tips for kids’ bedroom makeovers

Rock the block • A Hawke’s Bay home is transformed with clever use of colour blocking

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Back to nature • Elevate your Easter celebration by referencing its earthy roots with rustic table settings that speak of nature’s abundance alongside whimsical displays of organic ephemera and quirky curiosities

Kids’ corner • Gelato colours create a bedroom that promises the sweetest dreams

FOOD

NOODLE BOWLS • Pack your fork – or chopsticks – and take your taste...