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

Sleep Easy

Window Shopping

10 of the Best • Oven mitts are the kitchen equivalent of bumper stickers, so speak your truth and have a laugh

Bunny Business • Make it a hoppy holiday every year with these 14-carrot keepsakes

Rockin’ Rococo • Bring a few frills and some opulent playfulness into your day

The Wild, Wild West • Giddy up, we’re bringing equine glam into our homes

On Deck

All White Now • Renovation experience? Zero. Buy a rundown rental and turn it into a family home? It was a rollercoaster ride

Britannia Rules • Traditional English details helped polish this refreshed Auckland gem

Charm CENTRAL • The arrival of a couple’s first baby put the reno of a Victorian-era doer-upper in Dunedin on a tight timeline

Bathroom Buzz

Mountain High

Budget-friendly Makeover Hacks

Storage Solutions

Do the White Thing • Tres chic or a design cop out? Here’s how to make all-white interiors interesting, liveable and cosy

Go Bananas

Let it grow • Sweet florals, pastel pops and a quaint kitchen garden belie this cottage’s ties to an industrial past

Cast in Stone • This year we are simplifying our Easter decorations and giving them a whimsical twist with a few flowers and lots of bunnies

Mi Casa • Spanish Colonial architecture, Leonard Cohen and Greece helped inspire this ranch-house makeover

The Future is now • Take your house from science fiction to fact, with this 101 guide to smart homes

Fig-ured Out

The constant gardener • It’s out with the old and in with the new as we prepare for the shorter, cooler days of autumn

Medicine Woman • Take another look at that weed you’re about to pull out, you might not know it has beneficial properties. Ali Sutherland shares some knowledge

Scandi Cool • It’s a design trend that’s brought hygge to our homes, now Mary Lovell-Smith explains why this aesthetic should be taken outside

The Right Stuff • Try an Arabian street food favourite filled with savoury charm

For Easter, Sweeties • Make it a hoppy holiday with these eggs-ellent long weekend treats

Crispy Queen • Easy and delicious air fryer meals with not a frozen chip in sight

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Green Days

The Busman’s Guide To: Queenstown • Where to stop, drop and shop in the adventure capital

Bold Strokes • The colourful works of artist Jen Sievers’ have collected a loyal and adoring following

You can go your own way • People, situations, or other things holding you back? It might be time to step away from the comfy but unsatisfactory familiar

Should You Paint Your Bedroom White?