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.
Add a bit of colour
A Brilliant Home • This issue embraces the bright and bold, and here are my favourite picks from a spectrum of hues. Each item makes me ooh and ahh – just don’t ask me to match them together!
Masthead
Colour Coded • Bring more joy to your home (and life) with a splash of paint in your favourite pigment. Get started with our designer tips to matchmake colours in style.
Spaces that feel good
Gather In The garden • In pretty pastels or bright, vibrant splashes, flowers bring many emotions – and for a couple of cousins, a new way of life.
Seasonal spectrum • Gardens are about seasonal colour, but why be limited by just one season? Plants certainly aren’t. Pick a hue and follow this chart to have plants flowering in your favourite shade all year round
Eat The Rainbow • Embrace colourful ingredients to bring bursts of brightness to the table.
Colour Connection • Eat for your health by choosing colours that signal nutritional elements.
Elevate Your Everyday Objects • With a little lick of paint, you can transform humble furniture into objets d’art. Be inspired by these budget-friendly upcycling projects that add designer dash.
vivid dreams
better decorating
Beaut bonsai
Cooking With Colin & Clarissa • Get your tastebuds tingling with flavour-packed meals and the most vibrant dessert you’ve ever seen!
Dinner for one
Better cooking
Wonder Walls • Love your home but feel there’s something missing? It’s probably art. Wall art can add passion and personality to a home, and starting a collection of pieces you love is more affordable than you think.
Pet Picasso • Have your favourite furry friend create a colour-filled masterpiece that looks simply pawfect.
Ruby • Knock, knock. Hue’s there? Our BHG team went on the hunt for colour.
Decorating
More Is More • Artist, designer, interior maximalist and author Evie Kemp shares her tips on how to curate a character home that fills your cup.
Naturally Neon • Copy these bright ideas for your baskets and doormats. Use acrylic paints, set with an outdoor sealer spray, to pep up home staples.
Better Solutions • [ THE LATEST TIPS, PRODUCTS AND TRENDS FOR HOME IMPROVEMENTS MAINTENANCE ]
Shades Of Beauty • How to use colour analysis techniques to highlight your natural beauty.
Better Health • [ THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS AND TRENDS ]
Cool Calm Collectable • An English country-style summer garden deep in the Aussie bush? Sefton Hall shows you how this happens seamlessly – and beautifully.
Cool Climate Gardens • Tap into the secrets of creating a space with old-world charm.
To teal with zeal! • Team the calming qualities of blue with the revitalising power of green and you get teal. It’s the colour of the year for your gardens, nominated by the US Garden Media in its 25th annual report. It’s a colour named after the gregarious Eurasian teal duck, which has two swishes of this gentle hue running down its head. And it’s a colour that can have a unique impact on your garden!
In your Garden • As you soak up the last days of summer, start planning for autumn!
Better gardening
Moon guide • Garden according to the phases of the moon with Milton Black.
Bright Bakes • Tigga Mac – aka Aussie cake decorator Tegan MacCormack – and her baker bestie Katie Scoble share fun kids’ party cake hacks from their new cookbook (yes, you can use...