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.

Hello

Masthead

Social club

Come To The Table

Window shopping

Snake Charms • Celebrate the Year of the Snake with some s-s-s-serious coil power energy

Beach reads

Pitch perfect

Got The Bug

As Luck Would Have it • A plan to build in Tolaga Bay changed when this homeowner chanced upon an unpolished gem

Spreading The Hues • Curated maximalism and a bold use of vibrant colour is a feast for the eyes in this interior designer’s spacious family home in Auckland

Tickled Pink • A 1950s bach provides the idyllic escape for a couple of city dwellers and all who are lucky enough to come visit

Caravan of Love • Inspired by Napier’s iconic Art Deco Festival, this caravan was transformed into a pink dream

Bird’s Eye View • A contemporary home on a Christchurch estuary provides its owner with an outlook that’s always changing

The Kiwi Favourites Awards • Over the past four months, we’ve asked readers to select the nation’s favourite interior products. Here’s what’s hot in kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom spaces

The Nation’s Favourite Living Room • In the last of our Kiwi Faves, here’s what the country’s favourite living space looks like, as voted by you

Don’t mess with this • The Shark MessMaster vacuum is making Shelley Ferguson’s life easier

Coastal Cool

Made From Scratch • The land, location and the locals helped inspire and transform a bare property into a dreamy coastal haven

Happy Hour • Celebrate the best Kiwi summer ever by making your place the hottest spot to be in the ’hood

On Fire

10 Of The Best

The Inside (And Out) Story

Vision In White • With hints of the tropics and relaxed Hamptons style, this laidback house invites people to shed their shoes and embrace coastal living

Trend Watch 2025 • Interiors need a refresh? We’ve sifted through the upcoming global trends to find the hottest looks for Kiwi homes this year

Raise The Bar • Transform an old piece of furniture into a cool home entertaining statement

New year, new mindset

The revivalist • Give an old lampshade an upgrade and turn it into a handy food cover for pest-free outdoor dining

Plum Delicious

The constant gardener • It’s harvest time for early cropping fruit and veggies and everyone should be reaping the delicious rewards for all that hard mahi

Posies & prose • Greytown independent book store owner Millie Blackwell, of Mrs Blackwell’s Village Bookshop fame, shares some gardening picks

Star Gazing • Earth, fire, water, air – what your gardening future has lined up for you according to your astrological sign

Greens & tomato wholemeal galette

Hot Off The Grill • For a sizzling good time, introduce a world of new flavours to the great Kiwi barbecue

Sugar Rush • Recipes from the MasterChef Australia: Back to Win champ’s fabulous new book

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

A Wine Line

Inspector Gadget • We chill out with Shark’s FlexBreeze Fan

Flower power • Emily Timoti knows the best kind of blossoms are the ones that last forever

The Beauty Of Friendship • The relationships you have with your besties might be one of the greatest love stories never told