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 • Enjoy swoonworthy linens and gold touches

Your Home and Garden

SHOPPING

Fresh finds • The latest looks and products we love

Greek odyssey • Think classical beauty and age-old relics

Please be seated • Sit yourself down for some sofa satisfaction

White noise • Add elegant accents to your decor with this timeless shade

Shell style • Treat your home to this speckled classic

Trigger happy • Artist Emma Crawley brings a playful touch to the rug renaissance

HOMES

CASA DEL SOL • The owners of a new build in Raglan, which has cool curves in all the right places, took coastal Mediterranean architecture as their muse

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Warm whites and lots of natural hues align for beachy Mediterranean bliss

WINTER WHITES • From ivory to cream, add some light, bright touches indoors

Featherweight CHAMPION • Using every small-space trick in the book, this New Plymouth cottage punches well above its weight in style and functionality

SHOP THEIR STYLE • A monochrome palette and wallpaper is a suitable background for this cottage’s statement pieces to shine

HOME SWEET HYGGE • A nature-loving family are the embodiment of Scandi style, embracing comfort inside while still connected to the outside

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Scandi styling relies on a white background, natural wood and lots of texture. The addition of earth tones and black elevates the look

SEA CHANGE • A family exchanges cramped apartment life in Southeast Asia for a large, cedar-clad coastal home in Raglan

RENOVATION

LEAP OF FAITH • It wasn’t their first choice, but a brick house with valley views proved to be the perfect fit for this enterprising couple

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Soft white and cream with textured, rustic touches is a recipe for farmhouse success

Breakout building • Granny flats have come into their own in as versatile dwellings with multiple uses. Here’s what you need to know

Take to the tiles • Get ready to make some hard decisions for your walls and floors

MAKEOVER

Flying colours • A love affair with colour has transformed this coastal home into a blushing beauty

BEDSIDE MANNERS • This bread bin hack is the best thing since sliced bread

CALL TO ENTER • Resene SMALL ROOM AWARDS (BUT BIG IN IMPACT) 2022 Your home and garden

You had me at HELLO • Come and go as you please with these entryway solutions

Kid’s corner • Freshen up a child’s bedroom by painting a wall in checks – the hottest pattern around right now

FOOD

Midwinter fare • A roast comes into its own in winter so set the table and enjoy for long lunches indoors with friends and family

Mastering the art of tray-bake dinners • Are you tired of making and eating the same evening meals? Transform your family’s menu in four easy steps

AROUND THE TABLE • Give a sense of occasion to a midwinter dinner with a setting that shows off your styling skills and welcomes guests to dinner

Culinary travels • Chefs from some of the New Zealand’s finest retreats share their signature dishes

Sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Take some cold comfort this month by doing a little ground work

Pot luck • Create a container garden, the decorative...