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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This month I’m…

Social club • Pastel maximalism and homely cosiness

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Floor It

Window Shopping

Pick up the scent • Home fragrance is a surefire way to create atmosphere and change the mood of the room

10 of the Best • Puzzle us this: is anything more satisfying than finding the final piece?

Mellow Yellow • Build me up, buttercup

On the Line • Stripe up your life

Homes

My, My, My Delilah • A property-improving couple took on their first villa renovation – a project that stole the heart of their son and his young family

Shop Their Style • A white villa provides the backdrop for exciting colours and furnishings

Lake Escape • A harmonious blend of natural materials, a spacious interior and timeless designer pieces define this home

Art And Soul • An eye for quality, comfort and timelessness played a big part in this bungalow’s modern and serene transformation

Dark Matter • A Wellington home gets a dramatic update with an extension that has kerbside appeal

Hunker Down

That ’60s House • Meet content creator Danni Duncan and her husband Alex who share the design evolution of their eclectic home on social media

Cosy To The Max • Survive and thrive this winter by indulging in cosymaxxing rituals. We explore how to level up your home comforts, ready for self-soothingsoothing

Makeover

High End, Low Key • Masterfully transformed, this contemporary country home has been opened up to new life, designed with rigour and infused with joy

Full Steam Ahead

On The Mat • From entrance greeter to hall runners to area rugs, we’ve got you and your floors covered

Gardens Gardens

The constant gardener • On one of those crisp, cool, fine winter days, take an amble around your garden and get a lay of the land

Talent in spades • Comedian Donna Brookbanks turned her green-fingered love into a show

Blooming Passion • Growing flowers to get through a period of burnout has bloomed into a joyful passion project for a Tauranga gardener

Remembrance Of Things Past • Discover the magic of the simple French tea cakes so revered by Marcel Proust

Love Me Tender • Heart-warming braises, curries, tagines and stews

Simmer Down • Warm and comforting souper bowls to add to your winter roster

Sweet & Sour • Waste not, pickle a lot is the mantra of Aussie preserving queen Alex Elliott-Howery in her new book

Sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Living

Mid-winter Magic • Celebrate the chilly season and spread the Yuletide good cheer with a delicious feast for friends and family

Pieces of Art • Educator and portrait and mixed-media collage artist Naomi Azoulay celebrates womanhood in her work

Creative incentive • Do you want to know an easy way to enrich your life, feel happier and reduce stress? Pick up a hobby

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