Your Home and Garden Febuary 2023

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.

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I once bought a copper basin in Marrakesh. They were in lots of bathrooms there and, when I stumbled upon a plumbing supplies shop, I snapped it up, thinking of all the ways I could imbue exotic riad style somewhere in my otherwise ordinary house. Then I ordered some wildly patterned floor tiles and behold, Morocco-in-Auckland. This appreciation of other cultures’ interiors is really a by-product of the world as a global village. It’s a wonderful way of layering your home with memories of your well-lived life to create a unique space. If you’re impatient and can’t travel, there’s bound to be a shop nearby that sells what you’re after – or there’s always international shipping. This month’s cover is a case in point and could just about be anywhere,…

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WE LOVE Auckland-based Skitty Studio’s new serving boards are a playful take on clovers and bubbles. Now that’s what we call a serve. @skittystudio Stylist Violet Dent’s home is a lesson in kitsch cuteness. We adore her unique way of displaying pressed flower petals. @violet_dent PODCAST OF THE MONTH “Fruit Love Letters” is a deep dive into the curious history of your favourite fruits, from nurturing figs to complex apples. Go bananas. CONNECT WITH US We love seeing images from our #yourhomeandgarden community. @yourhomeandgarden TRENDING ONLINE Soaring birds inspired this statement Raglan home. yourhomeandgarden.co.nz TOP INSTAGRAM POST A Waikanae pad shines with pattern and beachy goodness. @yourhomeandgarden Instagram @yourhomeandgarden | Facebook facebook.com/yourhomegarden | Website yourhomeandgarden.co.nz…

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Your Home and Garden NZ

EDITOR Fiona Hawtin ART & EDITORIAL Deputy editor Caroline Moratti Art director Nicola Feeney Chief sub-editor Michelle Joe Garden editor Mary Lovell-Smith Senior designer Béla Trussell-Cullen Designers Alice Bush, Anna Petursdottir, Hayley Pearce CONTRIBUTORS Amber Armitage, Holly Jean Brooker, Melanie Jenkins, Jen Jones, Sarah Marshall, Babiche Martens, Living Inside, Eleanor Ozich, Bronwyn Sell, Catherine Steel, Shelley Tustin, Alice Veysey ADVERTISING | CORPORATE Sales director Claire Chisholm Commercial brand manager Bridget Hewitt, bridget.hewitt@aremedia.co.nz, 021 1591265 Sales manager Mae Kelly, mae.kelly@aremedia.co.nz, 0212460276 Senior account manager Chloe Jordan chloe.jordan@aremedia.co.nz Campaign manager Angela Wei angela.wei@aremedia.co.nz Classified sales Kim Chapman classifieds@xtra.co.nz EXECUTIVE Chief executive officer Jane Huxley General manager Stuart Dick Editorial director Sarah Henry Distributor Are Direct…

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IN THE HOT SEAT Ferm Living is serving up looks this season and the Desert lounge chair is just the latest in a long line of beauties. Tailor-made for both indoor and outdoor living and with seats made from recycled post-consumer plastic, reclining in a shade-covered courtyard has never looked better. $999, from moiongeorge.nz DOUBLE TAP Give your kitchen the easiest, most effortless, “I-just-woke-up-like-this” of makeovers with some sleek, sexy tapware. The Elysian kitchen mixer in brushed copper dishes out that va-va-voom feeling in spades, uplifting even the most tired and dated spaces. $340.90, from abiinteriors.co.nz HOLD A CANDLE TO We’re suckers for a good stripy moment and these candles do it better than most. Handpainted for a unique finish, check out Fazeek’s striped candle set, $49 (set of four),…

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