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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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Better together • Carefully curated collections and colour can transform a space.

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At home in the landscape • Behind stone walls that gently merge with the Karoo veld that Jan Sauer Lambrechts loves so much awaits a characterful interior in which he likes to seek out the winter sun.

EAST MEETS west • After many years in India, Pieter Erasmus brought back an exotic flavour to the Little Karoo.

A home AWAY FROM home • An abandoned Karoo farmstead has gently crept into the hearts of this KwaZulu-Natal family.

A new life…

KICK BACK ’N RELAX IN comfort & style • Turn your living area into a cosy and elegant retreat.

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with panelling • Ride the décor wave with this wall treatment. Our design also provides useful display space.

QUICK PROJECT GUIDE

Ask the experts • Need advice on a new kitchen for a holiday home or ready to settle in a retirement village? Just ask – we’ll find the answers.

Quick questions

Stash it or trash it?

COOL Karoo blues • Thanks to experience gained from a previous renovation, the Johnsons were able to convert their old storeroom into a gorgeous garden cottage.

Animal antics

The right exercise • Sunette Barnard of Johannesburg writes A puppy recently joined our family as a companion for our older dog. How much ewercise should the two of them get, given their different ages?

Gardening notebook • Turn up the heat inside your work or living space with these trending indoor plants.

Garden goodies

A surprise in the Karoo • Two years after the first sod was turned, guests find solace in this lush, colourful oasis – despite the obstacles presented by an arid environment.

Anton’s plant family • Although there are thousands of cactus and succulent species in his collection, this grower knows each one by name.

Growing tips • With climate change and water a scarce resource, xerophytes such as succulents and cactuses, that can survive on very little water, are a popular choice. Most species are low-maintenance and grow easily, especially if the rainfall is sufficient. Many are also frost-hardy. Follow Anton’s advice…

At a SLOW SIMMER • There’s nothing like a hearty stew to ward off the winter chills.

We’ve got supper sorted! • Air fryers are ideal for cooking a quick meal – try one out!

food & drinks • Beat the winter blues with these tasty temptations.

Second chances • If reincarnation was real, Karin Brynard muses, how would we use it?