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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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Make it YOUR OWN • Give a space fresh energy, inside or out, with paint and tiles.

A TIMELESS BLEND OF past & present • Behind the traditional architecture of this charming Little Karoo home lies a stylish contemporary living space.

A gem in the country • After finding a charming cottage to renovate and ‘flip’, interiors maven Charlotte Collins fell in love with the space and made it her own.

It’s in the detail

From the inside out! • A clever revamp of this 1960s house has resulted in a light and spacious abode that flows effortlessly from the interior to the garden – without compromising its footprint or the many indigenous trees.

[PAUL’S TIPS FOR BUILDING ON]

PERFECT PALETTES FOR sweet dreams • From black and white to romantic pink and stately blue – there’s a colour scheme to suit every style.

FOR seating & storage • At the foot of your bed, near the front door, in your holiday home or Airbnb... There are so many uses for this bench.

WATCH THE SHOW!

Décor dilemma

Ask the experts • Need inspiration for your bedroom or considering a new brick floor? You ask – we find the answers.

Now accessorise!

Quick questions

Stash it or trash it?

Don’t move, improve! • A glass roof over a previously underutilised space is the showstopper of this renovation.

EXPERT ADVICE

Animal antics

When flowers are fatal

Gardening notebook • With winter on the horizon, it’s time to bring your indoor spaces to life.

Ask Ludwig

Ask JJ

Garden goodies

Easy on the eye • Indigenous plants and a limited colour scheme define this well-planned garden.

Favourites • Because Trish’s garden is large, she grows plants in large groups and prefers low-maintenance stalwarts.

INDIGENOUS splendour • If you love beautiful blooms, then look no further than these flowering trees – they not only provide shade but add colour and vibrancy to the garden.

BREAD WINNERS! • Sliced, crumbed, fresh or leftover, don’t let that loaf go to waste. Try these tasty recipes...

We’ve got supper sorted! • Short on time? Try these four tasty dishes.

No need to knead! • This recipe, developed by Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery in New York, is now world-famous. When the ciabatta comes out of the oven, it looks like it has been made by a boutique bakery.

food & drinks • Celebrate the good things in life!

The kiss • Could it be, muses Karin Brynard, that the social kiss will soon be extinct? In these times of plague and pestilence, it might just come to pass.