Your Home and Garden

Holiday Spirit

TREE-TOTAL

Harper and Jude decorated the tree this year, with most ornaments from Farmers or Nikki’s nana. A train from Spotlight runs underneath the festive scene.

SET THE TABLE

The recycled rimu table and chairs are Facebook Marketplace finds. The table runner is from Spotlight, paired with speckled Kmart tealight holders, which the family use as glassware. The floral arrangement on the table and the wreath on the front door (right) were gifted by @scintilla.nz, a florist friend of Nikki’s.

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MEET & GREET

Nikki Kettle (builder and Your Home and Garden columnist), Tom Taylor (builder) and their children, Jude, five, and Harper, three.

THE PROPERTY

A 1920s four-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Eastbourne, Wellington.

Everyone knew that DIY expert Nikki Kettle’s house would be amazing. Nevertheless, you’d forgive us for still being a

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