Design for delight

Outdoor wow factor: Expert tips help you choose, apply and maintain timber stains outdoors

Quick winter projects for the whole family

Fake it with flair: The art of creative illusion

Big style, small budget: a design guide to interior excellence that won’t break the bank

Reds go royal: A toast to wine tones

More by design

Redecorating with cost in mind

Greens go moody

Red alert: A colour not for the faint-hearted

Why wallpaper is here to stay

Added opulence: Red morphs into brown

Drenched in colour

Fall for colour: Bringing the shades of autumn inside

Cosy colours that work all year round

What’s in the colour charts for 2026?

Design tips for sheds and garages

Designs that don’t date

Home makeovers that won’t break the bank

Invoke the colours of summer

‘A game changer’: Remuera villa in double grammar zone heads to auction

Design for delight

‘If we could move it across Auckland’: Family selling stucco-style home for school, sports

Mission Bay home with separate unit for sale - ‘once people are inside, they’re impressed’

Simon Carnachan-designed mansion asking for over $8m - ‘realistic vendor’ downsizing

Family downsizing after 37 years in St Heliers home with pool, bush and views

Remuera ‘country club’ on two titles for sale - ‘you don’t need it anymore, Dad’

‘New perspective on Remuera’: Racecourse home a sure bet for auction

‘The girls aren’t pleased with us’: Parents selling Mt Eden home, cottage and playhouse

Coastal chic: Fresh in summer, cosy in winter

‘Feels like Fiji’: Secret Gulf estate with private beach selling for the first time since 1880s

Remuera mum transforms home which she didn’t like at first into ‘the pink palace’

Grand Epsom home beside reserve for sale - ‘hard to believe you’re in the city’

Quick winter projects for the whole family

Remuera bungalow on the market for the first time in 30 years

Winter weekend projects

Ready to paint? Pro tips for wonder walls

How to paint a room: Planning and prep

Three ingenious paint hacks from the experts

How to paint weatherboards

How to refresh your deck

Painting in hot weather

Surfaces you didn’t know you can paint