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Home is a practical, inspiring guide for the home and garden that enables people to make their home prettier and increase the value – inside and outside. The magazine makes life easier for people wanting to buy a home, build, or make alterations, or even try their hand at gardening, cooking and decorating. Home doesn't just demonstrate what looks good – it explains what adds value, and why. The magazine offers readers affordable and accessible choices, help with do-it-yourself projects, and provide advice for renovations. It’s for men and women with ordinary lives, ordinary careers and ordinary homes; people who want to add value to their home with a limited budget.

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January flashes • Send diary entries to diary@homemag.co.za at least three months before the event.

Celebrate the New Year!

what’s new

CREATE, INNOVATE!

Au naturel • Add texture to your home with these natural fibre products.

Dream in colour! • Make a splash with your favourite shades.

Between a rock and a hard place • Undeterred by a remote location with rough terrain and no electricity, a couple built an eco home below an overhang in the Gifberg mountains where they can ‘unplug’ and unwind.

A PASSIVE BUILDING METHOD THAT WORKS WITH NATURE

EARTHY LIFESTYLE

UNDER CONSTRUCTION…

Living the dream • An adventurous South African couple weathered rough seas, an earthquake and absent builders to turn an idyllic farmhouse in Greece into a “friend to strangers”.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BUYING FOREIGN PROPERTY

RESIDENCY VS CITIZENSHIP

Labour of love • A Cape Town couple’s quirky weekend escape in the historic West Coast town of Hopefield has been 10 years in the making – and it’s still not ‘finished’.

A ‘rookie’ with style! • Meet Nadine Theron, the winner of our first-ever Rookie Stylist competition in partnership with MRP Home.

NADINE’S TIPS

MAKE A KITCHEN trolley • Ample free time on your hands this holiday? Do something creative!

QUICK PROJECT GUIDE

MEET OUR TOP 9! • With two new categories and R100 000 in cash prizes up for grabs, this year’s Fix it with Flair competition generated a flood of entries.

Ask the experts • Need help planning the layout of your lounge or wondering when to replace your wooden window frames? You ask – we find the answers.

Décor dilemma

YOUR DREAM HOME STARTS HERE

Quick questions

A popular choice • A combination of relatively inexpensive building costs, internal flexibility without the need for load-bearing walls (all of the load is carried through the roof beams) and their novelty makes A-frame holiday homes popular.

Don’t move, improve! • This A-frame holiday home was given a facelift – literally!

Total: R281 083

What was the biggest challenge?

Animal antics

WIN!

Turn over a new leaf

GREENING CITIES

HELP PLANTS COPE WITH HEAT

Gardening notebook • Gardening in 2020 is all about looking beyond the traditional, embracing local climate change and repurposing the garden.

Regional rose tasks for January

Garden goodies

A garden for all the senses • In just two years, a dedicated team at Mirtehof has created a breathtaking oasis in the Karoo.

THE HISTORY OF MIRTEHOF

GARDEN PLAN

A CLOUD of colour • Few plants put on as magnificent a display as bougainvilleas in summer.

FROM BIG TO SMALL

A taste of the sea • Even if...