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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Social club

Masthead

Shopping

Window shopping

Pinch-me Moment • Shell be right with these stylish crab and lobster visions

Be Mine • Valentine’s gifts for everyone – your lover, friend, pet (or yourself)

Long Lunch • Dress up the best part of your school or work day

Leopard Loving • The classic animal print is basically a neutral

On Deck

Dune Bug • A revamped ’70s home by the sea is a celebration of personal style while remaining true to its retro roots

That ’ 70s reno • A DIY pro tackles her most personal project yet – a forever home for her parents

Time After Time • A New Plymouth couple have worked wonders, taking a turtle approach to the hairy problem of restoring a run-down villa

What’s Cooking?

Artists In Residence • A converted Masonic lodge doubles as an eclectic family home and art studio

12 Sizzling Hot Kitchen Trends For 2025 • Whether you’re dreaming of a new kitchen or planning a mini makeover of your existing space, we’ve cooked up a hit-list of looks that are popular right now

Shore Thing • Set the scene for a sea change with these homemade cuties

How To... Eliminate Pet Clutter • Our fur babies are adorable, but they bring with them their own category of not-so-cute chaos. We asked the experts how to bring order to pet-related mess

Makeover

Funky, Little Shack • Two sisters and their husbands created a luxurious weekender with multi-seasonal appeal from summer to winter

Desk Job • How to make your home office and study nook work

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This • Gentle sorbet shades are the key to opening the door to the land of Nod

Homegrown Romance

The Constant Gardener • Summer has one month left to strut its stuff, so stay on top of weeds, prune fruit trees and start planting spring-flowering bulbs

Healing With Nature • Biophilic design principles have been applied to a new garden at North Shore Hospital and can be applied to your own home too, says Ryan McQuerry

10 Covetable Climbers • Mary Lovell-Smith shares her pick of upwardly mobile plants for cloaking walls and softening verandas

Food

Lunch Club • Turn your midday meal into an event to look forward to with these fresh ideas for home or work

Peachy Keen • Take sun-ripened, stone fruit and turn it into swoon-worthy sweet treats

Picnic Days • Ace outdoor excursions by packing a hamper with these delectable recipes for eating alfresco

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

High Spirits

INSPECTOR GADGET • In which we swim while the robot cleans the pool

Cotswoldian if…

MIXING MEDIA • This Dunedin muso, potter and illustrator is happiest when immersed in a creative project

Dinnertime RITUALS • Get the table talking with these fun ideas for sparking conversation and adding some special sauce to family meals

A brief history of... Florence Broadhurst • More is more and retro rules when it comes to the iconic designs of this flamboyant queen of colour