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 • Style inspiration, cute floofs and balcony how-tos

Your Home and Garden NZ

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

Heart mates • A valentine notwithstanding, spread the love at home

Super natural • Warm up your interior with this earthy pink clay hue

Cocktail hour • Pour yourself a tipple, it’s 5pm somewhere in the world

Out of office • Set up a work-from-home space that’s as stylish as it is functional

Now you’re cooking • Le Creuset’s new Toughened Non-Stick Sauteuse is an all-rounder

Slow, sleepy & stove-free summer days • Simplicity is the key to truly enjoying the season. Meals are pared back, thrown-together and make the most of fresh, seasonal flavours

New material • A novice textile designer who started learning her craft during a lockdown is making her mark and winning more than fans

GOOD VIBRATIONS • A couple’s renovation of their neglected home in Papamoa has incorporated design features from the ’60s and the ’70s

BESPOKE DETAILS

SHOP THEIR STYLE • This beach house’s easy living vibes go hand in hand with some serious design touches

BEACHY KEEN • Seeking a more family-friendly home, Andrew and Michelle Algar swapped their inner-city place for this modernist beauty near the sea

Bach overture • A Bay of Plenty couple spurned big and flashy in favour of stripped back and simple for their charming beachfront home

Vision of loveliness • Imagination and professional expertise were required to completely transform this coastal house into a beachy-cool family home

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Warm neutrals with white and black is a winning combination in this beachy home

HIDDEN TREASURE • How a couple with vision tackled a run-down house on a steep, overgrown site and transformed it into a charming stylish home

Open & shut case • A well-organised wardrobe is a goal for many of us, but what’s the best type for your home and your lifestyle? Start planning your dream closet using advice from our experts

Wardrobe world

First impressions • Lana Taylor, Erin Cayless and Bonnie Hindmarsh are three professional renovators known as Three Birds. In their latest book Three Birds Renovations, they put their skills to use giving a cottage a new lease of life – exterior included

My own private sky • In Brianza, in the north of Italy, a fabric designer gives new life and colour to a 14th-century nobleman’s home

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Mid-century furniture and cane rubs shoulders with confident fabric and rug choices for a devil-may-care aesthetic

Fresh start • Embrace colour this summer with the Wonder palette from the Dulux Colour Forecast 2022

Shelf esteem • Create good-looking shelves for showcasing collections as well as storage. Our DIY expert Nikki Kettle shows you how

Big Summer SALE!

Kid’s corner • Get playful and have some fun with waves, squiggles and curvy blotches

NOW YOU’RE COOKING, COME CLEAN • Whiteware and appliances are essentials in every cooking space. Choose well and they’ll also enhance the look and feel of the place, New-generation dishwashers look after your best tableware

TOAST AND TEA, PLEASE • These kettles and toasters look so good you’ll never want to hide them away

CHILL FACTOR • Choose between the many configurations available in today’s fridge/freezers

GORGEOUS GADGETS • You’ll find a...