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

Reality bites • Embrace the surreal – who needs real life?

Great Heights • Bring the wild, windy Yorkshire Dales to you

10 of the best • Because pepper mills should never be a grind

Sage advice • Make matcha of this verdant hue

Homes

Love At First Sight • Inside the 19th-century family home that is under a relationship review from John Aiken and Kelly Swanson-Roe

Cottage Industry • Thinking pink added the kitchen-sink drama to the home of self-taught private chef and social media sensation Hercules Noble

Nordic Exposure • Embracing the quiet and calm beauty of Finnish design, a barn-style new-build rises in Canterbury

Character Building • Hands-on management made sure the rebuild of this art deco home was accomplished a couple of weeks before deadline and under budget

Decorate

Maximalist Pleasure • New and vintage finds consort with a liberal dose of cosy colour in this historic house

Freshen Up • Your guide to inspiring bathroom trends, plus quick wins to make an old space shine like new

Makeover

Inside Story • Merging two apartments into one huge space means all the more room for entertaining for this sociable couple

Sofa, So Good • Going shopping opens up a world of seating possibilities. Here’s what you should know before committing

The constant gardener • Adieu to the last days of summer. As leaves begin to fall, remove them from paths and use them as mulch to improve garden beds

Flowers to the people • Lisa Bindon grows, supplies and arranges seasonal flowers for locals to enjoy fresh from the field

Cabbage Patch Kids • This family garden in Christchurch is a child-friendly place of creativity that embraces learning, growth and using your imagination

Afternoon Pick-me-up • Turn this snack into lunch, by stuffing them into a pita pocket or wrap with salad ingredients and a little dressing made from Greek-style yoghurt, a couple of teaspoons of tahini and lemon juice

Easter Hoppiness • Sweets for your sweeties to enjoy over the long weekend

Fast And Furious • When time is short, these easy eats will have dinner on the table in under 60 minutes

Takes The Biscuit • If you know, you know – Biscoff is the sweet sensation that’s been taking the world by storm

sound bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Living

Easter paperwork • Test your origami skills and make a fluffle of bunnies

Frazzled Englishwoman’s house when…

Geometry Class • Former auto electrician Kayla Bacon is sparking interest in the art world with her funky, psychedelic works

Calming Rituals for a productive life • Feeling tense, tired and stressed out? Try taking a soft and gentle approach

In the frame • Avid magazine readers would be familiar with Babiche Martens and her work. The Auckland-based photographer is a master in her field, and we are stoked to share Breakfast at Chin Mee Chin as our April artwork

A brief history of the... Bally orange poster • The advertising poster from the 1960s is still relevant in most interior situations today