May 2022

Your Home and Garden

Your Home and Garden shows you how to create a home that reflects your personal style.

Your Home and Garden2 min read
Hello
Watching season two of The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties or L’Agence as they say in French on Netflix. The reality TV series follows the Paris-based Kretz family of real estate agents (father, mother and three of the four sons) who deal in lu
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Social Club
Sydney artist Britty Flynn brings together the outrageous and the ordinary with her canvases of giddy, unadulterated joy. @brittyflynn The Foxtrot sisters add wool blankets to their success story. yourhomeandgarden.co.nz Get lost in the city of dream
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Your Home and Garden NZ
Fiona Hawtin Deputy editor Caroline Moratti Art director Nicola Feeney Chief sub-editor Michelle Joe Garden editor Mary Lovell-Smith Senior designers Béla Trussell-Cullen, Tanya Wong Designers Demelza Callesen, Alice Bush Kate Battersby, Holly Jean B
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Shopping
FLOOR IT Even if you’re all in on the white-on-white approach to decorating consider adding a coloured rug to make the room more dynamic. This Nodi Rugs Bamboo Silk Blend Stripe rug, which is handwoven on a traditional loom from bamboo silk and New Z
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Fresh Finds
Soften any space with these tactile Muskhane felt lampshades. Handmade in Nepal, using natural and renewable materials, these will have you reaching for the light switch. $149, from hapa.co.nz TRANSFORM YOUR OFFICE INTO A SPARE BEDROOM WITH THE EFFOR
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Get Cosy
For winter wellbeing, we’re all about creating warm interiors to make your home look and feel inviting to family and friends. The Warehouse has a range of quality, cosy bedding and homeware to help you stay on-trend, with affordable options for every
Your Home and Garden5 min read
Art From The Heart
A backpacking trip with a friend to Kenya and Uganda when she was 22 tapped into Helen Dean’s adventurous spirit. It was an enormous cultural contrast to life in the English coal-mining village where she was born and raised. “Visiting the developing
Your Home and Garden3 min read
Celebrate Your Mum
Since becoming a mother, 14 years ago, I’ve learned how complex, messy and relentless raising children can be. Chances are, if you’re a mum, you’re nodding your head while reading this. Despite its beauty and life-giving experience, being a mum requi
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Homes
THE ARTIST’S WAY This purpose-built self-contained art studio, which is located in the sightline of a modern pavilion-style home, also doubles as a private sanctuary for its owner. For more about this house, turn to page 56. ■
Your Home and Garden2 min readArchitecture
Family Resemblance
Meet & greet Sally (town planner and project manager) and Matt McGarry (electrician and solar power installation company director), Jasper, 11, Duke, nine, Sonny, five, and samoyed retriever cross Shelby. The options are endless when you build from s
Your Home and Garden6 min read
MAN of STYLE
Meet & greet Andre Afamasaga (New Zealand Human Rights Commission senior manager) and flatmate Paul Whiting (Ministry of Education lead). The old Aulsebrooks factory in the middle of Wellington hasn’t been making iced animal biscuits in years. Instea
Your Home and Garden2 min read
Join The Jet Set
When it comes to house-cleaning who doesn’t want to do the best job possible with the least amount of effort? World-renowned electronics company Samsung has just released their Bespoke Jet cordless stick vacuum featuring game-changer technology and e
Your Home and Garden5 min read
Blank canvas
Meet & greet Rae (artist) and Nick Prentis (builder) and their dogs, Dougal, Huckleberry and Beauregard. When people wax lyrical about their dream home, what they usually mean is a house that ticks all the practical boxes for every member of their fa
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Shop Their Style
What area did you save on? Our labour was free so we knew we could save money by completing many things ourselves. Where did you splurge? Concreting our very large, semi-steep rural driveway (approximately 650sqm), Best lessons learned? Get to know y
Your Home and Garden3 min readArchitecture
Nest Move
MEET & GREET Kim (database administrator) and Neil Ford (programme manager for a large engineering company) and cavoodle Otten Ford. After Kim and Neil Ford’s three children left home – one lives in London and two are flatting, the couple agreed it w
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Renovation
Hang ups Bold wallpaper is having a moment right now. Check out the wallpaper lowdown on page 80. Parakeet Chinoiserie, $369 per roll, from Resene ColorShops. ■
Your Home and Garden5 min read
Hidden Potential
We’ve all had one of those awkward first meetings. For Melissa (Mel) O’Shaughnessy, it took a good three or so viewings, and she still wasn’t won over. In 2018, Mel and husband Alex, decided to sell their newly renovated home in central Auckland to m
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Makeover
SLEEP TIGHT Bedrooms are an escape from communal areas of the house, so it’s always a good idea to make them somewhere you want to relax in. It could well be time for a makeover – our bedroom update has the lowdown on how to do that on page 104. ■
Your Home and Garden4 min read
Reno Prep Talk
Renovations expert If you’re thinking about renovating your home, you may be wondering how you’re going to navigate the long lead times and constant price increases you keep reading about. Ultimately, it all comes down to planning – which is the 101
Your Home and Garden2 min readArchitecture
Pretty In pink
Meet & greet Chantal Assinck (location agency owner) and Tom Klomberg (HR consultancy owner). Chantal Assinck and her partner Tom Klomberg live on the third floor of an apartment building located in the heart of busy city situated near a picturesque,
Your Home and Garden5 min read
And So To BED
Sometimes there’s only one place you can get some peace – the bedroom. It’s a retreat from the chaos of daily life, a space for sleeping, reading a book or recharging. As work and home life have blended, we’re re-evaluating what we need in our privat
Your Home and Garden3 min read
Fortune Favours the Bold
Meet & greet Arna and Dave Marshall, Willa, eight, and Nash, five. The 2022 Resene Colour Awards winner rewrote the rule book when it came to using bold, unapologetic colour without compromise. Awash in a world of white kitchens, Arna Marshall’s fear
Your Home and Garden1 min readRegional & Ethnic
Food
MAKES 4 1 Tbsp olive oil1 medium onion, chopped finely1 medium carrot, chopped coarsely2 stalks celery, trimmed, chopped coarsely1 medium parsnip, chopped coarsely2 cloves garlic, crushed200g button mushrooms, sliced thickly2 bay leaves1 Tbsp finely
Your Home and Garden5 min read
Sweet Sensations
SERVES 8 2 cups mixed macadamias and brazil nuts¼ cup dried currants or dried cranberries6 medjool dates, pitted1⁄3 cup maple syrup2 large beetroot (about 300g), coarsely grated, plus extra to serve200g desiccated coconut, plus extra to serve1⁄3 cup
Your Home and Garden2 min readRegional & Ethnic
Sound Bites
Make the most of feijoa season. This quick Feijoa Loaf is reliably foolproof. 1 cup feijoas, peeled and chopped1 cup boiled water1 cup white sugar50g butter1 egg1 tsp baking soda2 cups self-raising flour 1 Place feijoas, water, sugar and butter into
Your Home and Garden3 min read
Celebrating 30 Years In NZ
What started as a dream to do things differently has seen Dilmah become New Zealand’s favourite tea brand and one of the world’s most successful tea businesses. Started in 1988 by Sri Lankan Merrill J. Fernando, who named the company after his belove
Your Home and Garden5 min readRegional & Ethnic
Make It healthy
SERVES 4 2 eating applesZest and juice of 1 orange1 tsp ground cinnamon1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil1 Tbsp light brown sugar or maple syrup¼ tsp almond extract or 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional) Yoghurt Bowls with Toasted Oat Topping5 Tbsp porridge
Your Home and Garden1 min readArchitecture
Gardens
WINTER ROSES Late autumn is the time when hellebores push out new growth, such as this Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose), with fat buds emerging from the soil near the base of the plant. Feed well with sheep manure and compost and this shade-loving
Your Home and Garden2 min read
The Release
The Braun PowerBlend 9 features a sophisticated range of new technologies and is a powerhouse of innovative features and intuitive precision. The iTextureControl allows ultimate blend customisation from smooth to coarse, with 18 food programmes and a
Your Home and Garden4 min read
The Constant Gardener
May Trees and shrubs are best planted or transplanted now, so they can settle in before the cold, and are ready to take off once the soil and air warms up in spring. Water in well. Plant a fruit tree – the world, and your family, can never have too m
Your Home and Garden4 min read
Power Plants
For its second comeback the kentia has thrown off its ’60s and ’70s connotations of Queen Victoria and the Empire. Now we’re loving it for its tropical elegance. And it hails from the Pacific Islands, no less, being endemic to Lord Howe Island, a dot
Your Home and Garden1 min read
Design Direction
Historic Wains Hotel, as it was known back when it was built in 1862 in Central Dunedin, has been refurbished and become a five-star boutique hotel renamed Fable Dunedin. The lounge was deliberately designed to give “a nod to the history of the hotel
Your Home and Garden6 min read
Pattern Play
• Large florals • Trompe l’oeil • Scenic landscape murals • Archival designs • Botanical greens • Textured neutrals • ’70s retro waves • Victorian maximalism • Bohemian blushes • Art deco panels To the uninitiated, wallpaper can be intimidating. Wher

Your Home and Garden

More Issues From Your Home and Garden