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

Absolutely Floored

Window shopping

Carrie on • And Just Like That... she couldn’t help but wonder how to decorate her Gramercy Park townhouse

Full of Woe

Mitford misfits • Eccentric – yet stately – decor straight out of a Nancy Mitford novel

Ten of the Best Vases

Room With A View

Room To Grow • Designed around a charming Ararimu farmhouse, this landscaping couple has created a wonderland for the whole family to explore

Pick Of The Crop • Four years of hard mahi and a two-week reno transformed this former Bachelor NZ winner and her fiance’s lifestyle

House for all Seasons • Indoor spaces meld seamlessly with the outdoors for relaxed, year-round living

Honest To Goodness • The simplicity of solid wood, natural fabrics, cheerful white walls, greenery and the odd well-designed piece is always a winning formula. For the rest of this house, turn the page.

Slow Life In The City • The Japandi tenets of art, nature and simplicity mixed with an appreciation of wabi sabi helped guide this house transformation

The ultimate spring cleaning & organisation guide • Take charge of your home with our top tips and clever tricks to banish clutter and breathe new life into your living space

Good Sorts • Courtney Adamo, co-founder of the family lifestyle blog Babyccino Kids, invites readers into her home in her book, The Family Home. Alongside her husband Michael and their five children, she shares their favourite organising tips

State of the art • Make a cute picture the focal point of the room by sticking to a fairly neutral palette with the odd hit of colour

Make An Entrance

Stage Right • Old and new worked in agreement when an acclaimed scenographer moved from a historic lodge and into a city apartment

How to... conquer a chaotic laundry • We asked the experts how to turn a laundry from the pit of despair to an open-door-worthy storage hero

Elevate your Entranceway

Sweets For My Sweet

The constant gardener • It's an exciting time for sowing, planting and growing with temperatures rising and soil warming

Into the garden

Okay, Bloomer

Currying Flavour • A little roasted rice powder adds a fragrant toasty deliciousness to this dish

Ghoul Power • Trick or sweet Halloween treats for your monster mash

Your New Goh - To • Comfort and joy from Ottolenghi chef Helen Goh

Sober curious? • With a more mindful trend towards moderation, here’s what to drink when you’re not drinking

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Light Up My Life

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

Eye See You • Give new meaning to the phrase “at death’s door” by spooking up your entrance with some Halloween crafts

Watch this Space • Exhibiting since she was 14, artist Bella Foster’s latest works mix Palm Springs imagery with bold retro colour palettes

Off to a fresh start • Clean space, clear mind – eight tidying rules to work on

20 Questions • WITH JULIA GARDNER, WALLACE COTTON MARKETING MANAGER