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This Christmas, you can be 'Home Alone' at the iconic McCallister house.

Decorate your garden for the holiday season with this festive bunting.

A history devotee creates a flower-filled cottage garden to complement a Hawke’s Bay country villa.

Heritage features sit happily alongside contemporary design at this iconic Christchurch property.

This Taranaki design store owner surrounds herself with colour and treasures.

Laura Borrowdale, author, loves living in a Williamson Pole House, every she goes there is a pole or an odd corner or small space to navigate, she is a hunter of the weird and unusual so the house suites her hobby.

A family who live in an off-grid self-built 'clay' home have paid no bills for over a decade - saving them $70,000 a YEAR. Their niche lifestyle means their cost of living is a whopping $70,000 CAD less than the average four person household in t...

NZ Gardener editor Jo McCarroll and Jack Hobbs, manager of the Auckland Botanic Gardens, answer your gardening questions.

Discover Martinborough's clever home of two halves

At Cross Hills Gardens & Nursery in Kimbolton, thousands of rhododendrons and azaleas bloom every spring.

Plantsman and hydrangea breeder Glyn Church recommends the best hydrangeas for Kiwi conditions.

Capsicums or sweet peppers are the milder-tasting members of the chilli family.

Stuff Homed reporter Kylie Klein Nixon is joined by The Block NZ winner and interior designer Amy Moore and maximalist and fellow interior design expert Evie Kemp fro some lockdown style tips.

The owner of this off-grid stilt house in Argentina wanted his own skateboard park built into the design.

Built in 1906, The Landmark is a Category 2 heritage-listed home that has come on the market for the first time in 21 years.

Brittany Cosgrove says she'd rather live out of a van than work to rent in the no-win Wellington housing market. Video first published in September 2021.

How to live your best life - a North Auckland couple show us how.

Vanessa and Brett Horwell wanted the warmest, most comfortable and healthy home they could afford.

Illustrator Jenny Cooper has the right plants in the right places at her Amberley garden.

See inside expat model-turned-stylist Angela Radcliffe's elegant London home.

This secret slice of Whanganui has thousands of plants from all over the world.

Glenys Laing has nurtured her garden on the family's dairy farm for over 50 years.

Recycle newspaper into biodegradable plant pots.

"I spend five days a week in the garden for at least three hours a day,” says Sharron Ballantyne.

Munching on a juicy cob of sweetcorn slathered in butter is a summer treat and it’s easy to grow your own.

How to fit a family of five on a tiny Auckland site - and have room for a pool.

Make this house of birds from $5 fence pail.

This quaint Edwardian cottage on a clifftop in Devon has come onto the market for the first time in 20 years.

This gigantic log house in Florida has been run as a hunting and fishing lodge. It is for sale, with an asking price of $14.53.

By all accounts, the first owner of this Arts and Crafts house for sale in Manawatu was a colourful character.

Use these tricks to fool even the most astute visitor.

Upgrade simple bottles into premium candle holders with this halloween DIY idea.

What can your waste disposer handle?

It's not just the log cabin that appeals on this property for sale - it's also the stream, waterfall and woodland setting.

This might be the cutest paper towel holder you've ever had if not the only one you need.

Rather than build a collection of detergent and antibacterial sprays in the cupboard under your kitchen sink you may be surprised to find that there are some great natural solutions already sitting in your fridge or pantry.

Make this pretty harvest basket out of chicken wire.

How to use mason jars to decorate your home? Tint and wrap it with a fishnet.

Make this easy wall-mounted propagation stand with these step-by-step instruction from Jacob Leaf.

What would it take to build your dream home? One Swiss architect spent 40 years building his cathedral-like mansion. And an English architect built a 100% natural house entirely out of cork.

Break-ins are one of the most common crimes committed, so when it comes to protecting your belongings and your own safety, you can’t be too careful. We take a look at some of the best ways to prevent intrusion.

Thinking of buying a new house? You might want to double-check your finances before making that big decision.

After 23 years, this Northland couple's garden allows them self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables.

Coveted seaside Tauranga garden finally came this couple's way.

It may be rented but this Auckland heritage apartment never looked so good.

These Auckland homeowners get their mid-century groove on.

Redmond Builders won a major Master Builders award for this large home in a semi-rural setting in Hastings.

They love us, entertain us and keep us from going stir crazy... they're our furry Lockdown pals.

With their lovely contours and glossy skin in shades of purple, white, green and black, eggplants are one of the most alluring summer crops.

At home with Verity Johnson, Stuff columnist and burlesque club boss.

Making soap can be super therapeutic, especially when it involves creating your very own radiant gemstones.

Are you fed up with wet and slimy soap? Then it's time you learned how to make soap that you can hang up.

Looking for a fun craft to do this weekend? Here's a super simple eggshell candle recipe you can try out at home.

From tossed out cutting board scraps to forgotten refrigerator leftovers, we all waste more food than we realize.

Help your climbing vines reach new heights with this easy-to-make chevron trellis.

Most people think of fall as the end of gardening season, but there are actually plenty of opportunities to continue harvesting

This minuscule Auckland garden has a surprisingly lush outlook.

Two firms stood out in this year's Auckland-Coromandel-Northland Registered Master Builders House of the Year competition.

This couple’s quick decision to buy an old villa at Waihī Beach has led to a happy retirement.

Ripe for renovation after 100 years in the same family, this Grey Lynn villa is now on the market.

In the 1990s, this was Bill Calvert's dream home, but it has become a leaky home over the decades, and the former Radio Hauraki "pirate" is selling up.

Palm Springs is a perfect fit for this expat Kiwi’s lifestyle

Swim City! Party underwater in this $50M California mansion

Jo Collins is constantly putting her personal touch on this memorable garden.

This contemporary house, built by Blue Summit Construction, has won the firm a Canterbury Master Builders Outdoor Living Excellence Award and a Gold Award.

The stunning Mediterranean villa created by Irish-born designer Eileen Gray in the 1920s is open to the public.

Alyce Read is the 2021 winner of NZ Gardener magazine's Houseplant Hero competition.

The corner section spans Ponsonby and Grey Lynn.

Gardening guru Lynda Hallinan sowed these onions from seed.

Margaret and Brian Herd have revamped and refreshed this romantic country garden and vineyard.

Award-winning landscape designer Lyndell Shannon's own garden in Waiheke proved to be one of her biggest challenges.

House built into Texas mountain lists for $13 million

About one-third of all homebuyers were purchasing a house for the first time ever

Pruning bush and hybrid tea roses is easier than you think.

A knot for training trees

How to prune a fruit tree to a modified central leader form.

Kate Marshall offers some tips and tricks on how to prune apple, pear and cherry trees.

Creating a cordon espalier

Kate Marshall demonstrates how to prune a vase shape.

Apartment Therapy asked experts how to keep plants alive when moving.

It's taken its owners 40 years, but this rural garden near Ōtorohanga is a show-stopper.

TikTokers say this cleaning hack is a "useful" must-try. We tried it out, and not so much.

Salter Builders constructed the Nelson, Marlborough & West Coast Supreme Home of the Year 2021. The house is in Tasman.

The latest tenant of this one-bedroom apartment in Taranaki has never been happier.

There's a lot to like about this new cedar-clad house built by Hofman Builders, the Supreme winner in the 2021 Master Builders Taranaki awards.

The late Austrian artist Friedrich Hundertwasser inspired this stone house that has just come onto the market.

Master Builders Supreme House of the Year and Supreme Renovation in Bay of Plenty/Central Plateau 2021.

Apartment Therapy took a look at 6 different ways mint comes in handy at home.

Make your own hanging terrarium using these handy techniques.

Snorkel at home in this $6M mansion with in-house coral reef

An extensive garden flourishes in a secluded corner of the Far North.

This grand old Wellington home is ready for the next stage in its eventful life.

Think you don't need an air fryer in your life? Look at these and think again.

This soaring Central Otago home makes the most of its elevated site.

Taranaki family gets hands-on with this Edwardian villa renovation.

This historic villa, built in 1911, was cut into six huge pieces to make the long trip from Palmerston North to Clarks Beach, Auckland.

The future of this new Dunedin home was written in the stars.

A little Ponsonby cottage is carefully curated to make the most of every inch of space.

This stunning aloe vera organiser will keep your rings nice and tidy.

Cleaning up after making a home-cooked meal usually involves tossing food scraps or unwanted leftovers.