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

So Salty • Nothing fishy about the latest food trend

10 of the best • Take a photo. Then frame it. It’ll last longer

On Edge • Embrace scalloped rattan and get ahead of the curve

Swanning around • Decor deserving of a pas de deux

Homes

Light Touch • Being intentional and choosing neutral colours was the key to creating a calm, minimal environment for this family

Sun Days, Fun Days • A sprawling holiday home was designed to accommodate and grow with an architect’s extended family

Our home Made Better • A tired Auckland bungalow was slowly and thoughtfully polished into a rare gem after a five-year glow-up

Decorate

Crafted Calm • Turning a new-build into a warm, textured holiday haven came about through thoughtful material choices, a wabi-sabi philosophy, quiet intention and a designer’s clever intervention

Hot Right Now • We’ve cast our eye over global kitchen trends to predict what’s in the mix for this year

Makeover

Barn Star • A passive solar home in a bush-clad region took design inspiration from an apple packing shed

Lead with Your Heart • A warm and vibrant jewel-toned palette that was bold, yet classic helped guide this year’s Resene Colour Home Awards winner

The Time Is White • White is back big-time thanks to its understated, quiet sophistication

Do White Right • Still wondering how to incorporate white into your space for maximum effect? We’ve broken it down to something like a mathematical equation

Gardens

The constant gardener • Autumn is bulb planting time and a colourful selection is available in-store or online. Pop some in now to enjoy a spring spectacular

Nurturing nature • Award-winning nursery manager Jake Linklater tells why plant producers are hort stuff

Wild abundance • Growing as much as she can, sharing the surplus and upcycling energises a creative Waiheke Island gardener

Fresh And Cool • Mixing a juicy fruit with veggies in an Asian-style dressing? It’s a sweet and savoury summer sensation

That’s Amore • Smashing pasta recipes from Padella, the London hotspot known for making meals that would make any nonna proud

Gone Fishing • Scale new heights with these summery seafood meals

Good & Fruitful • Boost your mood and vitamin intake in a sweet and delicious way

Sound Bites • All the ingredients for kitchen and entertaining success

Living

Natural Inspirations • Auckland artist Erin Forsyth’s beautiful works draw attention to the native flora and fauna around us

Cook up a look • Lost your mojo when it comes to meal prep? Maybe your culinary space just needs a revamp

Nature study • Holly Roach takes great inspiration from the world around us. The Auckland-based artist creates vibrant odes to nature and Kōwhai Nest, our March print, is no exception

20 Questions • WITH BRIAR HICKLING, CO-FOUNDER OF LINEHOUSE AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT NEW ZEALAND DESIGN WEEK