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Home is a practical, inspiring guide for the home and garden that enables people to make their home prettier and increase the value – inside and outside. The magazine makes life easier for people wanting to buy a home, build, or make alterations, or even try their hand at gardening, cooking and decorating. Home doesn't just demonstrate what looks good – it explains what adds value, and why. The magazine offers readers affordable and accessible choices, help with do-it-yourself projects, and provide advice for renovations. It’s for men and women with ordinary lives, ordinary careers and ordinary homes; people who want to add value to their home with a limited budget.

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OUT OF the blue • A Victorian Karoo cottage has been dramatically coloured in from floor to ceiling – yet it's far from predictable, as the occasional surprise awaits in black and white.

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A STUDY IN black AND WHITE • Light and dark go hand in hand in this Parkwood home after a renovation project that began four years ago.

'A very silly idea' • Next to a gravel road in Napier stands a house built by a young couple on a small budget - but with big DIY plans.

CONTEMPORARY ‘farm house’ at the coast • In this forest estate, the home and landscape work together beautifully.

Bedrooms made beautiful • 25 inspiring, inventive and practical ideas to help you create the ultimate sanctuary.

MORE bedroom INSPIRATION • The Tuis|Home Décor School in partnership with Mr Price Home packed a punch!

CROSSWORD #175

ENTER & WIN • Last year, we were bowled over by the entries in the new sustainability category in our annual Fix it with Flair competition, so we're doing it again!

Don't move, improve! • Deep in the Northern Cape, another dilapidated cottage has been saved, thanks to a young couple's passion for renovating and decorating.

Working with drywall panels

Q&A with Noeline and Piet

What they did…

Ask the experts • Keen to style open kitchen shelves or need advice on how to hang art? Just ask – we'll find the answers.

Creating the perfect display shelf

Hang art like a pro!

Quick questions

Animal antics

Your pet can be a blood donor

Gardening notebook • Stay cool and collected this autumn with plants that can hold their own in the chilly months ahead.

Prep for winter • Winter arrives next month and there's lots to do before the cold and frost set in.

Time to transplant

Circles of doom

Garden goodies

ON THE next level • If your property is on a steep slope, create garden terraces – as Minki du Toit has done here in Waterkloof.

THE flower AND THE glory • This colourful garden not only provides a beautiful outlook from Heather Batchelor's home, but also gives her a bounty of blooms for the vase.

Sowing seeds

Liquid GOLD • Even just a little olive oil, used correctly, creates a taste sensation!

Prawn breyani • We've given this traditional Cape Malay rice dish a seafood twist – and it's a feast of colour and flavour!

We've got supper sorted!

Food & drinks

Zen AND THE ART OF washing dishes • To most it is a dreaded kitchen chore, writes Karin Brynard, but to her, it's the chore of choice.