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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Your home and garden

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Shopping

Window Shopping • TAKE A PEEK AT THE LATEST FINDS

Blue Period • Acid blue is the vibrant shade we’re clamouring for this spring

Basket case • We’re weak at the knees for wicker thanks to Alexander Skarsgard

Flower power

10 of the best

Matilda’s EDIT

LIVING MADE AS EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE • Three independent drums – one simple solution. Haier’s Multi Drum Range lets you wash multiple loads at the same time. They make sorting, separating and staying on top of family life easier than ever

HOMES

ISLAND RETREAT • This Waiheke Island holiday home, with its Provence-style farmhouse charm, comes complete with vineyard vista

SHOP THEIR STYLE • Take a few notes from Waiheke life with relaxed forms and interesting textures

TAILORED TO SUIT • Functionally fine but suffering surface wear, this Auckland bungalow received a ‘lipstick and attitude’ reno, giving it a fresh face for a new chapter

SHOP THEIR STYLE • For an elegant interior refresh, think cool, calm and modern

Elements Of Surprise • Expect the unexpected in the New Plymouth home of multidisciplinary artist Anneke Moore

Shop Their Style • Colourful designer pieces with eye-catching artwork will add that wow factor

A Fresh Start • Follow the journey of a new-build in Westmere, Auckland

Built To Last • A well-designed exterior should do more than have street appeal – it should stand up against the elements, too

Glass Act • The renovation of this Ōwhiro Bay family home has made everyday life even better – and warmer – than previously

DECORATE

Scandi Max • When editor Fiona Hawtin visited this Swedish house earlier in the year, she learned Scandi style isn’t all about a pared-back palette. This welcoming family home attests it’s very much about cosy colours and functionality

Shop Their Style • When mid-century touches meet Scandi warmth, the effect is next level

10 principles of Successful Outdoor Rooms • Your fail-safe guide to creating the ultimate alfresco living space

Dream Big • Two children’s rooms get swoon-worthy makeovers using Resene colours

Makeover

All together • Family and home is at the heart of everything for this interior stylist and her family

Shop Their Style • To create calmness and serenity, a natural palette wins every time

Make A Splash • Bathrooms aren’t purely functional spaces – they can also be places to refresh the mind, body and spirit

Indoor-Outdoor Flow • It’s one of the most searched terms in Kiwi home design – and a must-have on a home buyer’s wishlist

Gardens

The Constant Gardener • It’s prime planting time in the garden, so get your hands in the soil and put in your favourite summer edibles

Fresh approach • Floral boutique owner Jeanie Sutherland is helping to reduce the supply chain distance

Subtropicals for Everywhere • Lush foliage, exuberant vines, swaying palms, brilliant flowers and warm breezes – that’s the essence of sub-tropical paradises. These are not the preserve of the tropics, or even the subtropics. With some smart choices, you can recreate the vibe in almost any part of Aotearoa

Spear Time • Heroing delicious in-season greens

Feast & Fiesta • Antojitos – little cravings – from the streets of Panama, El Salvador and beyond...