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 • Crafty vases and embroidery witchcraft
Your Home and Garden
SHOPPING
window shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS
How to make organising fun • There’s something satisfying about having everything in its place and neatly labelled. A handheld label printer makes sorting out your home easy
MELLOW YELLOW • Say hello to sunshine and embrace easy, breezy living
10 of the best • Small and often overlooked, it’s time to let side tables and stools shine
Come dine with me • How to curate your perfect space with the King Dining Collection
Ghost town • Celebrate the spooky season with some fa-boo-lous decor
NEW SEASON STYLE • Refresh your home for spring at a price that is truly refreshing
HOMES
SWATCH THIS SPACE • The Grey Lynn family home of Hej Hej co-founder Alice Isles is as upbeat and playful as her fashion brand, but on a grander canvas
Shop their style • A love of colour accents, family pieces and carefully chosen new materials come to life against a backdrop of white walls
Full house • A former rental property becomes two homes for two happy families. Meet the people who converted the ground floor
Shop their style • Light mid-century touches, plenty of plants and fun spaces for kids is the perfect formula for a family living downstairs from another in a unique living arrangement
FLYING COLOURS • A fashion designer’s approach to living and decorating adds a colourful touch to a cottage makeover
Shop their style • Hop on the retro train with plenty of colour and pattern for a playful, yet suave approach to living
LONG TIME COMING • A couple finally found the view they always wanted and built a house around it
RENOVATION
AN OCEAN OF OPPORTUNITY • A spontaneous purchase of a weatherboard house provides a melting pot of coastal inspiration
Shop their style • Creative use of Hamptons style makes this house fit perfectly into its beachside environment
Go big or leave home • What to consider when you’ve outgrown your house and can’t decide to extend or sell
MAKEOVER
Easy living • Light and balance work with nature and a slow lifestyle at this idyllic holiday house in Denmark
Shop their style • Beachy Scandi vibes with lots of natural materials let the outside in
Mural magic • A white laundry wall is transformed with playful motifs from nature
Enter if you dare • Set a spooky scene for trick-or-treaters this Halloween with these bats and pillar candle holders
Pretty wild • Turn a child’s bedroom into a fun zone with textured paint effects and thoughtfully chosen, playful accessories
Clean slate • The definitive guide to decluttering – how to clear space and bring order to your home
PREP FOR SUCCESS • Five steps to get you on track to a successful declutter
Spring into action • Bring a sense of lightness to your home with fresh accents
ENTRIES ARE OPEN • Have you used Resene paint at your place? You could win $5000
GARDENS
The constant gardener • Set up a seedling exchange, what to plant this month for a good harvest, shade-loving edibles and cool water tanks
Pro tips • From the experts at Kings Plant Barn
Vegetable gardening in small spaces • As the price of getting your five-plus a day sky rockets, it pays to know size isn’t everything when it comes to...