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.

Hello

Social club • Colour junkies unite and a lockdown style challenge

Your Home and Garden NZ

SHOPPING

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

Glass act • Speckled pieces take centre stage

Creature comforts • Make friends with the animal kingdom, be they fierce, fluffy – or both

Stroke of genius • Watercolour homewares are making a splash

In the fold • Precise pleats make a chic return to homeware

Support act • The undermount sink is a subtle showpiece, allowing the benchtop to be the star of your kitchen

A guide to edible flowers • Looking for a way to earn yourself some culinary cred? Here’s how to make every dish you serve look blooming delicious

Tumbling routine • Delicate, playful, textured and full of colour – Kate Mitchell’s glass work delivers it all

Smart window FURNISHING OPTIONS • Whether it’s just a light refresh or a full-on construction refit, renovating is your chance to upgrade features to create a better home. We asked Russells what that means in terms of window furnishings

Some like it hot • If you’ve ever broken a tumbler and thought nothing of it, think again. The business of crafting a bespoke glass is a lot like playing with fire

HOMES

ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL • A modern Hawke’s Bay townhouse is filled with wit and whimsy, and a reflection of its fun and colourful inhabitantsv

CHANGE OF PACE • A home in the hills above Muriwai provides the ideal rural retreat for a couple in need of an escape from city living

Worth the wait • A New Plymouth couple’s arts and crafts home is the result of time, patience and meticulous attention to detail

AND BREATHE • This opulent family home was also designed to be luxury accommodation for guests to completely relax

RENOVATION

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH • A dark and dreary home is polished until sparkling light and bright

How to add value to your home • Four property experts spill on how to increase the value of your house whether you’re thinking of selling soon or in the future

MAKEOVER

A little CITY OASIS • Driven by a highly refined taste and a love for plants and flowers, a TV producer has radically refurbished a basement apartment

Light fantastic • How to illuminate your home for a brighter outlook

Types of lighting fixtures

Lighting by room

5 lighting trends

Bold moves • A dramatic powder room that was designed to provoke discussion from those who visit it

THE BLOCK NZ • It’s a case of deja vu for the contestants with another disqualification and yet another Level 4 lockdown to put a pause on the house auctions and the day of reckoning for all involved. At least the work is done and the homes have never looked so good

Kid’s corner • Up the cool factor in your explorer’s bedroom

FOOD

TRICKS n’ TREATS • Freakishly good party starters to make your little boos and ghouls scream with delight

Sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

World AT YOUR TABLE • Go globe-trotting from the comfort of your home with these delicious dinners

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Where to go for garden inspo and what crops to grow in the shade

Pro tips • From the experts at Kings Plant Barn

THE 5 GOLDEN RULES OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN • Is your garden a bleak vista...