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

Social club • Purple delights and cardboard treats

your home and garden

SHOPPING

window shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS

Hop to it • Celebrate Easter with small, eggs quisite touches to liven up your home

10 of the best • Laundry baskets to brighten up those wash-day blues

A light layer • Embrace the wee nip in the air with these autumn-approved throws and feel oh-so cosy

PAPER PUSHER • Move over plastic, there’s a new eco-friendly sheriff in town

HOMES

MONOCHROME MOOD • Elegant and sophisticated, but also welcoming and family friendly - this renovated charmer in Wellington has it all

Shop their style • A strong black and white palette is softened with natural textures, plants and earth-toned furniture

home truths

House next door • A couple spotted a Californian bungalow near their rental and snapped it up

Shop their style • Coastal minimalism and beachy bliss are a joy to see in this charming New Plymouth home

MOVING ON UP • When a Nelson couple nabbed their dream hillside site, they needed a house that would live up to the lofty views

home truths

Considerations

RENOVATION

THE SOCIAL NETWORK • A style-savvy couple, with three young children, clicked into cyberspace to help renovate their new city living space

Shop their style • A lust for life is obvious in this family’s predilection for playful, colourful decorating and one-offf pieces

Bathe in beauty • From high fashion to highly functional, here’s what we’ll be wanting in our bathrooms

BATHROOM on a budget • Consider these 10 essential tips if you want to makeover your bathroom for under $10,000

FRESH INK • A hallway gets ‘tattooed’ with some punchy blue paint

MAKEOVER

THEN THERE WERE THREE • The arrival of their first baby had an Auckland couple on a frantic hunt to buy their first home

Shop their style • Rattan, jute, wood, linen and an earthy palette is used to create an easy-living contemporary family home

Wonder WALLS • Bold and indulgent, or soft and dreamy – the only rule for wallpaper is that you must adore it

Fair & square • Add style and fun to your tween’s room that will last into the teen years

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Get your hands dirty over the long Easter weekend and turn your garden into an autumnal happy place

Pro tips • From the experts at Kings Plant Barn

Seed to table • Italian-Kiwi chef and home gardener Bri DiMattina shares recipes inspired by her home garden and Italian heritage in her new book Nostrana, along with growing guides and gardening tips

FOOD

Choc & awe • Make like the Easter bunny and indulge yourself with these dreamy treats

sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Make it THRIFTY • These fiscally prudent dinners will be family favourites

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LIVING

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

Let’s get eggs-cited • This fun activity is the perfect way to use up any old nail varnish you have lying around the house

Petal to the metal • Aucklander Hollie Ryan’s pretty creations will bloom forever

Simple tasks for easy happiness • Are you missing some feel-good factors in...