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 • Mid-century moments and boucle bliss

Your Home and Garden

SHOPPING

window shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS

Lit tips • From the experts at Mr Ralph

SHOP WITH US • EXPERT STYLE IS JUST A CLICK AWAY WITH THE YOUR HOME AND GARDEN SHOP. SHIPPING INCLUDED

Book smart • Get off your phone and rediscover the joy of reading with these delights

Wax lyrical • Enhance your table with candle holders worthy of carrying a flame

LUXURY LIVING • The world-class facilities at The Helier in Auckland’s eastern bays have raised the bar for retirement living in New Zealand

10 of the best • Hook yourself up with a handy selection

Hot chocolate • From deepest cocoa to buttery toffee, ’70s earthy tones are back from style exile

HOMES

Take me to the river • Taking design notes from builds in Arrowtown and Wānaka, this Ngāruawāhia home exudes Southern style

In the pink • A creative couple’s makeover of their character home juxtaposes the patina of age with contemporary lines

New horizons • A forward-thinking couple designed and built their home around the movement of the sun

RENOVATION

MOVING ON • Leaving a tiny apartment in Auckland for a big house in Blenheim came with so many blessings

Kitchen refresh • Update your space with these trending looks and easy hacks to breathe new life into tired kitchens

The flip SIDE • Real estate agents might say it’s all about the location, but how do you know when you’ve found the right house to do up?

Tales from outta space • Hide unsightly clutter and stash those out-of-season items by adding some beautiful built-in storage

MAKEOVER

The bright side • Paint and wallpaper transformed a boring beige former rental in Nelson into a true family home

COLOUR DECODED • Keen to get colour confident? Read on for the answers to your 10 most burning questions, plus on-trend ways to update with colour

SMALL ROOM AWARDS (BUT BIG IN IMPACT) 2023

Tool time • From hanging a painting to assembling a shelf, a well-equipped tool kit is essential for all home DIYers

On the range • Venetian plaster finishes are on-trend at the moment, so why not recreate this look at home and cover that unsightly rangehood at the same time?

The Listener is now online.

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Spring is just around the corner and it’s time to get a head start on planning for the new season

Pro tips • From the experts at Kings Plant Barn

Magic of mushrooms • Follow gardening editor Mary Lovell-Smith’s fun guide and conjure up your own edible delights

Celebratory spiral • Florist Susan McLeary explains how to make a spiral bouquet in her book Flowers for All

FOOD

Sugar rush • Rattle the biscuit tins, home baking is making a comeback

Surf & turf • Enjoy the best of both worlds using delicious offerings from land and sea

sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

LIVING

downtime • INSPIRING WAYS TO REST, RECHARGE AND GET MORE YOU-TIME

INSPECTOR GADGET • Did someone say soy milk latte? Coming right up, as we test the Breville Barista Touch Impress

Go with the flow • Flow Studio’s Staci Coble shapes her clay using the gentle currents of the ocean as her muse

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