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 • Ceramics, plywood and more details that matter

Your Home and Garden

SHOPPING

window shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS

Push the boat out this Mother’s Day

Grand millennial • Granny chic gets a facelift for the new generation

10 of the best • Add the wow to your welcome with these door stopping showstoppers

Mum’s the word • Spoil her this Mother’s Day with these gorgeous gifts all under $30

HOMES

Beach, bath & beyond • A former bach had the right flow for modern family life, while the coastal location and backyard sealed the deal

Shop their style • Coastal Hamptons vibes are the theme for this house, but step into the bathrooms and they’re luxurious tiled wonders

Style shifts • An interior designer shows how she stamped her mark on a rental property and turned it into home

Mary’s top tips for decorating a rental property

Shop their style • White, creamy neutrals get a taste of texture and elevated style

The Midas TOUCH • A small family who missed Mount Maunganui beach life had big plans for a rundown little bach

Shop their style • Against a crisp white background, these design pieces become the star of the show in this house

HIGH & MIGHTY • A Christchurch home on a steep site required an innovative design, which meant plenty of sharp angles

RENOVATION

INTO THE GROOVE • A kitchen makeover borrows from the past to forge a new, timeless way of living

Shop their style • Retro ’70s glamour meets modern metallics in this gorgeous kitchen update

Clear as mud • How to make a mudroom anytime, anywhere

After the flood • What you need to know if your home has been affected by extreme weather events

MAKEOVER

LIVING SMALL • Downsizing was an exercise in space saving and creativity for a Copenhagen mother and her son

Shop their style • For a small apartment, this is a lesson in making a statement with less by utilising easy-on-the-eye pieces

Home projects • Creating an office out of a small room by utilising built-in furniture, floating shelves and a tidy charging station makes space-saving sense

Pillow talk • Update your bedroom with the latest snoozing space trends for 2023 and beyond

PLUM GOOD LUCK • A house gets a new lease of life with some bold colours

SOFA, SO GOOD • Before stamping your style in your living area, bear in mind these useful tips

Win a Trip OF A LIFETIME • BUY A SUBSCRIPTION AND YOU GO INTO THE DRAW!

GARDENS

The constant gardener • Growth may be slowing down, but May is not too late to put in some cold-tolerant leafy greens for spring eating

Pro tips • From the experts at Kings Plant Barn

Nursery tales • Gardening author Hilton Carter’s latest book Living Wild is all about choosing and styling the right plants for cute kids’ spaces

FOOD

The best of the brunch • It’s easy to show some love and appreciation on Mother’s Day

sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

BUTTER UP • Homeland pastry chef Petra Galler’s first cookbook Butter, Butter serves up classics with a European twist

LIVING

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

Book worm • Remember your New Year’s resolution to read more? Now you can, thanks to these brilliant...