Vantage at Home with Your Home & Garden

Open door Policy

Visitors to the home can’t help but be blown away by the sweeping views across Hobsonville and Herald Island when they’re in the young family’s open-plan kitchen-dining-living area.View more of this…

Long Story Short

Jarrod Angove of Landmark Homes speaks with Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin about this seaside home.See the full story, video and home gallery at vantage.co.nz/long-story-short

Boom Box | Reno by Vantage

A few years after buying a 1980s wooden cabin in the North Shore bush, its doting owners decided it was time to expand — unconventionally. Simon Farrell-Green chats with Hilary and Crispin about how…

Bird's Eye View

Judith speaks with Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin about her contemporary home on a Christchurch estuary that is designed to provide an outlook that’s always changing. See the full story,…

Dark Matter | Reno by Vantage

In this episode, Simon Farrell-Green speaks with architect Anne Kelly about a  striking new extension they employed to update a modernist house for a young family in Wellington.See the full story,…

Reno by Vantage: Hole in One

Elbow Architects make a clever play in adding space to this mid-century family home in Auckland. Architect Julia Mercer chats with Simon Farrell-Green about this recent renovation project.See the…

Walking on Sunshine

Architects Kate Rogan and Eva Nash pooled their talents to design Eva’s new family home in Westmere, Auckland. In this episode, Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin discusses the design process…

Fairytale Ending

Tanya and Dominic renovated an "ugly duckling" with the views and space they wanted, creating a cedar-clad contemporary home on Christchurch's Cashmere Hills. In this episode, Your Home & Garden…

Full Transparency

One family gives new meaning to indoor-outdoor flow with a new home, where they can see the front and back yard from the open-plan living space. Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona Hawtin, speaks…

Water, Water Everywhere

Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona Hawtin, speaks with Toni and Warren about their dream home on the Whitianga Waterways. The couple enlisted architect Brendon Gordon to realise their vision for a…

High & Mighty

A Christchurch home on a steep site required an innovative design, which meant plenty of sharp angles. Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona Hawton, chats with homeowner Marie Parsons about the…

Forward Thinking

No one knows the future, but that’s not stopping Julian Waters from planning for it. He wants to enjoy his striking, modern Whitianga home for as long as possible, delighting in the indoor-outdoor…

Where the Pheasants Fly | Vantage and YH&G

Simon and Sarah  are city people used to having neighbours in close proximity. Simon used to call Ponsonby home and Sarah hails from Berlin. Now, their closest neighbours are pheasants and bulls.

Long Time Coming

Mountains of Appeal

Fiona, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with Craig and Natalie about the holiday home they built to enjoy during school holidays with their three children. Explore more from this home:…

Sea Change

Fiona, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with architects, Brian White and Harry Croucher of Edwards White Architects about this new home designed for a family who were making a lifestyle…

Home again

Fiona, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with architect and homeowner, Jonathon Kennedy of Sheppard & Rout Architects about his new home built on the site of his childhood house in…

Change of pace

This sun-drenched home was designed to perfectly suit a couple with plans of retiring. Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona, speaks with architect Richard Furze about this home in Omokoroa designed…

And breathe

Fiona Hawtin, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with Rochelle and Stuart Wilson about their new opulent family home which was also designed to be luxury accommodation for guests to completely…

Serial builders

Your Home & Garden NZ editor, Fiona Hawtin, speaks with a husband-and-wife team, who cannot seem to stop building houses. They speak about a home in Kumeu they have just built which is just…