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

Masthead

Shopping

Window Shopping

10 of the Best • Think of knobs and handles as the furniture equivalent of lipstick - instant glamour

Mother lode • Treat your mum, you know she deserves it

The White Lotus

Autumn Breeze • We honour the season with its signature hues

Homes

A Happy Ending • A house flipper and his rom-com loving parter find a home straight out of a Nancy Meyers movie

Home Pitch • The refresh of 1930s stucco beauty in Auckland had a lot of input from two young creatives

In The Groove • A couple bought a ’70s do-up they intended to fix and flip, little realising they’d lose their hearts in the process

Hole In One • A mid-century Auckland home is reconfigured to make it more functional for a young family

Spinning Around

Taking Shelter • A weatherboard facade shields a mid-centuryinspired house designed to protect and nurture its inhabitants

Laundry, upgraded • Connect with the Haier laundry appliances that will enhance your life

The Laundry Glow-up • Modern laundries are coming out of the closet with a fresh, fun look

Bright Ideas

Candy Crush • A vibrant home filled with a mix and match of finds and modern furnishings is a reflection of the owners’ passion for unique aesthetics

Shop Their Style • Happiness is an interior full of fun finds and joyous colour. It’s like having a second childhood all over again

Colour Scheme • Don’t just paint a room, drench it in colour – it’ll look all the better for it

See the Light

Moodboard Dream Room Makeover • The results are in. In January we asked you to come up with a room makeover using our moodboard and be in to win $2000 cash and $500 of Resene paint and wallpaper

Gardens

The Constant Gardener • Harvest the last of your garden crops and dig into autumn and plant your trees and shrubs while the soil is still warm

Growing Wellness • Meet gardening content creator and Tui ambassador Poppy Prendergast

Flower Therapy • Well-known photographic artist Emma Bass’ Auckland garden is a vibrant sub-tropical haven that is a place of healing and joy, as well as being a little bit bonkers

Smooth Operator • Silken tofu covered in a crisp coating and served in a light broth? Too easy. This Izakaya restaurant favourite is a snap to make in an air fryer

Bake Mum Happy • New takes on your mother’s family classics that will bring back the sweetest childhood memories on her special day

Give Peas A Chance • British food writer Sam Goldsmith works miracles with a bag of frozen peas

sound bites

Form An Orderly Line

Cover story • New and upcoming reads we’ve got on our radar

Curtain Call

Music & magic

20 Questions • WITH SUZ TONASCIA, OWNER OF CHRISTCHURCH TEXTILES AND HOMEWARES STORE BOLT OF CLOTH