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 • Where the worlds of interiors and art collide

Your Home and Garden NZ

SHOPPING

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

STAR POWER • Add some old Hollywood glam to create a golden glow

That ’70s show • Embrace the warmth of burnt orange and brown

Opposites attract • Deliver graphic drama to your decor with the tension of polar opposites

Shore thing • Adopt a casual coastal vibe for a look that lasts long past summer

10 ideas for beautiful storage • Take control of the chaos and prepare to get sorted

The power of two • Florists Lydia Reusser and Isabel Johnston discovered doubling up made for singular success

HOMES

OUTSIDE INSIDE • Interior designer Annabel Berry has a pool of talent to draw from at her coastal chic home in Ōamaru

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Create that holiday-at-home vibe with jute and rattan pieces, then add pops of colour in a tropical motif

POSITIVELY PALMY • No strangers to renos and hard work, a Manawatū couple pooled their formidable talents to build the perfect Bali-inspired retreat

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Bali feels for this contemporary home meant a neutral palette and investing in simple pieces that will stand the test of time

CURVE APPEAL • Sustainability and a love of nature are some of the design elements that inspired this countryside-loving family’s new-build

SHOP THEIR STYLE • A modern take on an airy white farm house is punctuated with black and some dramatic fittings

BAY WATCH • A property developer and his family find magic at Moonlight on a steep section overlooking the Tasman

RENOVATION

PLOTTING THEIR ESCAPE • Separated by distance and a pandemic, a woman’s dream of relocating a historic home to the countryside of her youth was a passion project

THE FOOLPROOF GUIDE TO Bathroom renovation • Consider these 10 helpful tips before making any big changes to your bathroom

BATHROOM UPDATE • All you need – from creative inspiration to the latest looks

MAKEOVER

MIX & MAX • Relocating to the country allowed an interiors stylist to create her dream maximalist home

Kid’s corner • Playing is not only fun it’s also essential for a child’s healthy brain development. Max out the space

SPACE SAVERS • Ten ways to maximise small areas

Book it in • Create a full-scale library, or even scatter piles of good reads around the home. Colour coding is optional

FILE UNDER FASCINATING • Curate books according to interest

A whale of a time • A Christchurch couple abandoned nursery wallpaper samples for a dreamy design that came out of the blue

FOOD

Let’s do BRUNCH • Go international for your next mid-morning dining experience with these swoon-worthy dishes from around the globe

Sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

GARDENS

The constant gardener • As the days turn crisp and cool, it’s time to prepare your garden for winter

Pro tips • From the experts at Kings Plant Barn

POND LIFE • Relax and reflect with a soothing and stylish statement water feature that’s good for the local ecology too

your home and garden

A brief history of… The Eames bird • Forever linked to legendary designers Charles and Ray Eames, the carved blackbird is an object of beauty