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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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Size counts! • These four spaces show the important role scale can play in your décor.

Unpretentious charm • From newbies to locals within a few short years – a platteland couple share their story…

‘This is where I belong’ • Inspired by her travels, vivid colours and the inimitable Karoo landscape, Terry de Vries has created a retreat she is proud to call home.

The call of the Karoo • When this creative go-getter’s birthplace beckoned him home, he bought the oldest house in town and transformed it into a masterpiece.

JAN SAUER’S 5 TIPS FOR RENOVATING AN OLD HOUSE

[HIS TOP DÉCOR TIPS]

Go with the flow • A clever layout and savvy furniture placement are essential for creating a successful open-plan living area.

EXPERT ADVICE

More options • Sam Harris of Home’s interior design service Welcome Home offers alternative layout suggestions for each living area – should the homeowners be keen for a change.

Sofa so good! • A stylish and comfortable couch is a must for any living room.

Dress for success! • Jazz up a clothes rack with paint and your own personal flair.

PAINT AND WIN WITH TJHOKO CHAMPS! • Stay warm by keeping yourself busy with a painting project and then enter it in this year’s Tjhoko Champs competition.

WATCH THE SHOW!

Décor dilemma • Looking for inspiration for your home office or considering a new fireplace? Just ask – we’ll find the answers.

Get the look!

Quick questions

Stash it or trash it?

Revive & restore! • A previously dilapidated heritage cottage stands proud on a quiet street in Vosburg once again.

EXPERT ADVICE

Animal antics • Brrr, it’s cold outside!

Q&A

Gardening notebook • With plenty to keep you busy, there’s no time for green fingers to get cold.

Ask Ludwig

Ask JJ

Garden goodies

Too pretty to eat! • When their veggies started to bloom, these two plant lovers launched an exciting new venture.

EYE-CATCHING blooms • Follow Conrad and Louise’s lead and grow these veggies for their striking flowers.

A formal affair • Charmaine and Martin Haines’ Nieu-Bethesda garden is as distinctive as their artworks.

Soul food from the KAROO • The uk’Aukarob* offers a bounty of delicious ingredients – think lamb and venison, figs, olives and olive oil, biltong and cheese. Just what’s needed for these winter winners!

We’ve got supper sorted! • Four winter favourites.

Marmalade steamed pudding • It’s so easy to prepare this sticky dessert over low heat on the stovetop; it’s deliciously moist and offers the perfect opportunity to eat loads of custard!

food & drinks • Cosy up with a cuppa and cheesecake or rich red wine in front of the fireplace!

When sweet sleep abandons you • Lying awake at night, desperately counting sheep, you totally get why sleep deprivation is such an effective tool for torture, writes Karin Brynard.