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Home is a practical, inspiring guide for the home and garden that enables people to make their home prettier and increase the value – inside and outside. The magazine makes life easier for people wanting to buy a home, build, or make alterations, or even try their hand at gardening, cooking and decorating. Home doesn't just demonstrate what looks good – it explains what adds value, and why. The magazine offers readers affordable and accessible choices, help with do-it-yourself projects, and provide advice for renovations. It’s for men and women with ordinary lives, ordinary careers and ordinary homes; people who want to add value to their home with a limited budget.

Dear reader

Home

your space

On show • Elevate your space with colour, texture and light.

what’s new

Country fresh! • Inspired by the charm of this laid-back Swartland town, Pierre Antoine and Francois Nel set about restoring the rustic style of a former agricultural building.

EXPERT ADVICE

RECYCLE, RECLAIM & reinvent • When Deidre Causton converted an old cottage into a garden studio, she drew on the design skills she’s honed over the years and found a home for all her treasured pieces.

A creative PROCESS • After deciding to make a home in Cape Town, this inspired couple set about putting their own stamp on their new apartment.

Rookies PROVE THEIR METTLE • Despite their lack of experience, this couple was able to create a simple yet ‘self-sustaining’ home in the heart of the Karoo.

A new roof

Let your walls do the talking • Florence de Vries’s love of motifs and bold colours is evident throughout her Bellville home. Her secret weapons? Paint and wallpaper.

How to apply peel-and-stick wallpaper

DUAL-PURPOSE divider • Space constraints? Make a mobile cabinet that can serve as both a partition and a headboard, with plenty of storage in six drawers and on two shelves.

Ask the experts • Need advice on budget-savvy ways to revamp your home or how to improve the layout of your living room? Just ask – we’ll find the answers.

Décor dilemma

MEET OUR WINNERS! • We were blown away by the creativity and ingenuity of the titleholders in our three categories. See for yourself…

Don’t move, improve! • The addition of a contemporary sunroom has totally transformed this Melville home.

EXPERT ADVICE

Animal antics

Q&A

Gardening notebook • Don’t let space restrictions limit your green fingers!

Ask Ludwig

Ask JJ

Garden goodies

An abundance of colour • If you’re short on space, follow Christo Calitz’s lead and create a dream garden with pots and hanging baskets.

Plants for pots and hanging baskets

Advice for a potted garden

Carefully curated • Thanks to clever choices and daily care, this garden with its more than 100 roses looks gorgeous for months on end.

Around the world... • Grab a packet of mince and cook up an international fusion of flavours!

IDEAS FOR LEFTOVER CARROT CAKE

Mini carrot cakes • This tried-and-tested recipe is sure to win hearts!

[ROYAL ICING CARROTS]

Piping bag tips

food & drinks • Relax and have fun in the kitchen!

We’ve got supper sorted! • Four family favourites full of flavour.

An ode to joy in the wilderness • Sharing a tent with a hard-of-hearing friend, Karin Brynard writes, may end either in murder or something completely different.