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
10 of the Best • Make study sessions all the more chic
Big Love • Share the passion this Valentine’s Day
Hold your horses • Celebrate the Year of the Horse in equine style
Stone age • Flourishes of marble to add to your daily life
Homes
Over In The Meadow • Wild landscaping, dreamy botanicals and Mozart sonatas mingle in a secret urban Auckland garden
Bright young thing • It was out with the old and in with the new when an Auckland family switched their villa for a stylish modern build
A Little Bit English Country
Decorate
Pocket Paradise • Small in scale but big on spirit, this joyful island home packs a vibrant punch and is bursting with personality
Trends for 2026 • With a new year comes an appetite for change. We’ve consulted the experts on what they expect to see in 2026, and we’re ready for a bold, grounded year ahead
Makeover
Light Box • Years of dreaming and careful planning have gone into the creation of this spectacular riverside home
Warm at heart • This Matakana cottage nails the balance between modernising a home and honouring its roots
Picnics On Parade • We round up some of the key trends for setting the scene and serving up a good time in the sunshine in the months ahead
Edible Design
Gardens
The constant gardener • Give your plants some much-needed TLC this month and they'll reward you in kind with flowers and food
Connecting with te taiao • Raihānia Tipoki (Ngāti Kahungunu) and his whānau live on Ngāawapūrua Farm in the Wairarapa where they are reindigensing the land through regenerative agriculture
Petite retreats • No matter how small your outdoor area is, there are plenty of low-cost hacks to help you stamp your green thumb on it
In the green room • Hardy plants that tolerate salt spray, wind and dry weather provide a leafy retreat at a coastal holiday house
Pet-friendly, please • Ensure your indoor jungle remains a safe haven for your furry friends with horticulturist Tammy Huynh’s suggestions for non-toxic plants
Cherry Bomb • Make a toothsome tart that will take your home baking to patisserie-chef levels
Basil Brush • Put summer’s favourite herb on the menu – boom, boom!
Best Dressed • Long, hot summer salad deliciousness to please both appetite and eye
A Sweet Deal • Award-winning pastry chef Philip Khoury reimagines classic patisserie for plant-based recipes
sound bites
Living
Forming ideas • Debra Powell shapes her fascination with crime history, anthropomorphism and her beloved greyhounds into whimsical ceramics
Tomato girl
Interior design: now with subtitles