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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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Dare to be DIFFERENT! • Discover your inner creative with inspiration from artist Sharon Welman's paint makeovers in St Francis Bay.

What's new

Create, innovate!

gorgeous Our empty nest • The Muirs swopped their big family dwelling for a chic estate home on the slopes of Constantiaberg.

3 generations under one roof • A close-knit Bloemfontein family all live together, but each household has its own kitchen, living area, bedrooms and bathroom, not to mention privacy.

Eclectic ELEGANCE • Filled with colour and pattern, this Swartland home shows how Victorian and French elements can blend beautifully with contemporary architecture.

A place to dream • Experts share their secrets for adding character and impact to your bedroom.

A fabulous facelift • Although this house was in desperate need of TLC, Laurell Pelser says it felt like home the minute she walked in.

Ask the experts • Looking for the latest trends in kitchen design or keen to refresh the layout of your living area? Just ask - we'll find the answers.

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Kitchen trends

Quick questions

Animal antics

Winter aches and pains

Pretty — AND PRACTICAL! • Build and upholster an elegant headboard, with a useful shelf for storing your books and bedtime essentials.

Gardening notebook • Colour for indoors July is the ideal time to get creative with house plants.

GET THE BEST FROM YOUR INDOOR PLANTS

The cold season kitchen garden

Ask Ludwig

Ask JJ

Garden goodies

CROSSWORD #168

An enchanted haven • Lush pathways invite you to explore every corner of this dreamy space

Curry in a hurry

Fancy apple tart • Serve this creamy delight with its golden phyllo pastry warm as a pudding or at teatime, with or without a little icing sugar sifted on top.

We’ve got supper sorted! • Four easy chicken soups for weeknight meals.

Food & drinks

TRUE GRIT AND THE grid • There’s a silver lining to load-shedding, Karin Brynard proposes, but it may need a battery or two.