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

Sinking Feeling

Window Shopping

Rouge Awakening

Feline Groovy

Starry Night

Let The Light In

Altered State • An architectural designer and a builder used to creating beautiful homes for Kiwis added their distinctive personal flourishes to a former state house

Bright Young Things • An Auckland townhouse is a curated treasure trove of thrifted 1990s nostalgia, graphic skate decks, books galore and iconic design pieces

Eyes On The Future • Meticulous organisation and attention to the small details paid off with this home extension

Touch Wood

Among the Trees • From the road this looks like an early Victorian cottage but inside it’s a completely different story

Chef's Kiss • We’ve perused the kitchen trends menu to serve up a plateful of looks Kiwis will love

Flash The Pans • Elevate your kitchen with stylish and high performance cookware and gadgets

Heat Of The Moment

To Boldly Go • Inspired by boutique accommodation, this apartment is a luxurious home with a hotel feel

See The Light • Inspired by those Scandi-style petal pendants but not the designer price tag? Here’s how to make your own

Take The Heat • The cost of having a warm and cosy home shouldn’t break the bank

Cool Colour

The constant gardener • Join your garden in a period of rest or embrace winter growing and sow lettuce, tidy up grasses and dream up new planting schemes

Charm the farm • Meet a modern-day homesteader and Gill of all trades

10 Palettes For Pots • Match a covetable container with the perfect combination of plants to create glorious, versatile displays

Love At First Bite • Yum. Crisp puff pastry filled with a wobbly, spiced custard centre

On Your Marks • Get set to have these easy and delicious dishes on the table in 40 minutes or less

Everything Indian • MasterChef Australia winner Justin Narayan shares some multicultural food faves

Good Libations • What every best-dressed drinks trolley and home mixologist needs to let the good times roll

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Roll Up

Inspector Gadget • We turned on the Shark air purifier to see just how pure it could make the air

Hang about • There’s more than one way to store fruit and veg. This one is giving cottagecore vibes

Body Of Work • A life challenge helped spark a creative change for an Auckland figurative artist

Shop smarter, eat better • Is all that cost of living economising getting you down? Eleanor has some timely, helpful advice

A brief history of the... Noguchi table • The artist behind this famous table survived internment and design theft to create a classic