Better Homes and Gardens Australia

Better Homes and Gardens - full of ideas, inspiration and information for you and your family. Every issue of Better Homes and Gardens is packed with inspiring, affordable and achievable ideas plus step-by-step projects for all areas of your home and garden.

Harmony at home • Beyond healthy resolutions, this issue is all about exploring what feeling good in your home and garden can look like.

Editor’s Picks For Feeling good • Whether you look at feeling good as a focus on self-care, a moment of indulgence, or time well spent with others, here are some top finds to help you on your journey.

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Happy snacks • Healthy morsels to keep you humming through the mid morning or late afternoon.

Hit Refresh • Create vibrant eats packed with freshness and pep to enjoy during the long summer days.

Feels like Home • Discover how thoughtful design and planning can create spaces that spark your favourite emotions.

Reflect • Creating a space in your own home for reflection isn’t just about style – it’s about designing a retreat where you can truly unwind. For Neale Whitaker, it starts with colour and light.

Calm • For many of us, home can be a busy and sometimes frantic environment. Creating a sense of serenity in the middle of that chaos is all about creature comforts.

Delight • That captivating feeling when we enter a space is often thanks to light, scale and colour working together to create a sense of liveliness.

Energise • Stay invigorated by your surroundings by carefully layering textural elements with complementary tones to build an exciting, stimulating space.

Focus • Whether working from home or finding space to concentrate on an important task, making a room conducive to thinking is key. Here are designer Anna-Carin McNamara’s tips for better focus.

Inspire • Few emotions are as exhilarating as the surge of inspiration that comes from experiencing a thoughtfully designed environment.

Matt Moran’s Happy place • Editor Megan Osborne speaks to celebrated Australian chef and restaurateur Matt Moran on what brings him joy, outside of the restaurant world.

Bloom where you’re planted • Flowers, flowers everywhere. Learn from one gardener’s landscape to create your own backyard cutting garden.

How To Design A Gorgeous cutting garden

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The Vibrant World Of therapeutic horticulture • Kevin Heinze GROW is a not-for-profit organisation that creates opportunities for meaningful inclusion, connection and physical and mental therapy through gardening.

Sway My Way • Make a holiday hammock using a single quilt cover set, a few boy scout knots and some basic sewing. It’ll come in handy on glamping trips or in your yard when you’re hanging out for some R and R.

Life’s A Beach • Craft a cheap and easy cushion from towels or table linen for those lazy summer days.

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Power Smoothies • Make your breakfast gorgeous with bright smoothie bowls, vibrant brimming glasses, or some superhandy cubes. Because why can’t a quick, healthier option be beautiful, too?

In a Glass • These good-looking smoothies are heavenly and healthy, pumping more fruit, veg and protein into your daily feed.

In a Cube • Prep one or more of these fruity blends ahead of time, then tuck the cubes away in your freezer. A fresh smoothie is just a little milk and a quick whirl away.

The way to a Gut • The way to a person’s heart might be through their stomach, but it’s also the pathway to a strong immune system and better mental health.

Feeling Good, In Practice • Use these simple, three-minute exercises from holistic trauma and relationship coach Lulu Cooper to find serenity and gratitude.

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