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 • Cherry-picked podcasts and groovy wood shapes

Your Home and Garden NZ

SHOPPING

window shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS

Love me do • Can’t buy me love (but you can give me a little something)

Wave hello • Make waves with cool curves in all the right places

10 of the best • Outdoor lights to guide you through the darkest hours

Duck-egg blue • This light and bright colour is making a serious splash

HOMES

GLOBAL ROAMING • Having interiors wanderlust means paying homage to other cultures and cherry-picking what works for where you are and your lifestyle. It’s called global style and it’s proudly eclectic

FASHION FORWARD • A trendy duo bring the colour from their wardrobe into their Hamilton home

Shop their style • Gen Z style meets ’70s blowout in a play on pattern and colour

BEACH CHIC • When a Tauranga family hankered for a place to unwind on days off, they went beachcombing at Waihi

Shop their style • Embrace the outdoor lifestyle with fringed beach umbrellas, rattan and Hamptons-style furniture

A LIGHT BALANCE • A mid-century summer house in a Danish artists’ colony gets a suitably creative, sympathetic makeover

BACH TO BASICS • Our Living Well columnist Eleanor Cripps gives her Piha bach gets a fresh lick of paint, and in return, creates a new way of life

RENOVATION

MAXIMUM IMPACT • An ’80s house gets a contemporary update that makes the most of its compact footprint

KITCHEN UPDATE • Find out what’s cooking in the world of kitchen design with these sizzling trends for 2023 and beyond

The fine print • What to look for in your builder’s contract

MAKEOVER

La dolce VITA • Despite renovations that never end, a creative couple have built themselves a sweet life in a charming old stone house nestled in the Tuscan countryside

Shop their style • Timeless pieces that look as if they’ve been in situ for an age give a Tuscan farmhouse enduring appeal

Little Miss Sunshine • Set a playful scene in a child’s bedroom by framing focal points with bright murals

ROOM TO WORK • From desks to decor, here’s how to create a space that will inspire peak productivity

HOW TO CREATE A WORKSPACE YOU’LL WANT TO SPEND ALL DAY IN

STENCIL THAT IN • A front porch plays with shapes and punchy pops of pink

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Smooth the transition from summer into autumn with prudent nips and tucks, and harvest and store the last of the summer bounty

Zhoosh zhoosh • 10 ways to vamp up the fabulosity of your garden, relatively quickly

FOOD

The light fantastic • It’s summertime and the living is going to be easy with these cool and tasty recipes

JAM SESSION • Expat Kylee Newton of Newton & Pott preserving company fame shares three recipes for the home kitchen

sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

LIVING

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

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Material world • Through her vibrant, feel-good textile designs, Imogen Switalla brings colour and joy into her various corners of the world

Vegetable scrap gardening • Turn your kitchen window sill into a mini hydroponic patch

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