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.

SUBSCRIPTION this Christmas AND YOU COULD WIN UP TO $250,000!

Hello

Social club • It-girl kitchens and plug into cross-stitching

Your Home and Garden

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

window shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS

Open home • Have a great day in the countdown to Christmas

All that glitters • Ornaments that will spruce up your tree decorating game

For the LUXE LOVER • Luxury is about wants and pampering, not needs

For the PRACTICALLY MINDED • Choose something that serves a purpose and gets a job done

For the GEEKS • Delight a techie with the latest gadgets and gizmos

For the KIDS • Fun for the young ’uns

For your SECRET SANTA • Gifts under $10 for smiles all round

FIR FAVOURITES • White, gold, blue, pink or traditional green - branch out with a new specimen this year

For calling birds • Extend the Christmas cheer to birds in your garden

Under WRAPS • Decorate your gifts with as much care as you did in choosing them, then watch as eyes light up on spying these perfect offerings

For you, with love • Turn a brown paper package into something special

Gather around the table • Get set for Christmas with a setting to impress for less

HOMES

Eat, drink & be merry • Stylist Kate Alexander creates the perfect Christmas Day

Deck the halls • The owners of a renovated ’50s house with cool art deco features prepare for a festive day of fun

WHERE THE PHEASANTS FLY • An artist sketched a house open to the views with a nod to the local birdlife in 2019. Two years later, the vision was realised and he and his family moved into the home on a hill in Raglan

A moment in time • After living life in fast forward, a young family has created a holiday-at-home haven where they can stop and exhale

RURAL IDYLL • A couple downsized to an acre paradise and built a house with everything they need in South Auckland

RENOVATION

COASTAL BELLES • With its white palette, open-plan spaces and materials inspired by the ocean, this new home is a beautiful reflection of the family who live here and the perfect backdrop for a colourful ’70s-style Christmas

Shop their style • Celadon and white is mixed with natural materials and the occasional curvy piece for a modern take on coastal style

A renovation code of conduct • It’s your property that’s being renovated or built so you should be able to turn up unannounced, right? Not necessarily

MAKEOVER

NORTHERN LIGHTS • Danish interior design shop owner Ann-Sophie Ulka’s home is decorated in colours that give lots of positive energy. Come December she dials up the festive cosiness factor with beautiful and feminine pastels

Shop their style • Pastel candles, holders, coloured glass and graphic posters update the traditional Scandi clean lines of this Danish home

Sweet dreams • A sunny nursery receives the golden touch

Screen time • Transform your TV into a work of art by building a frame for it

Shades of CARAMEL • Start with a backdrop of creamy, dreamy white, then layer in rich shades of cafe au lait and burnt toffee to create warmly welcoming festive decor. Complete the easygoing feel with decorations made from dried leaves, flowers and grasses

INTO THE BLUE • A family home creates waves with a colour palette that’s as evocative as the ocean...