Home is a practical, inspiring guide for the home and garden that enables people to make their home prettier and increase the value – inside and outside. The magazine makes life easier for people wanting to buy a home, build, or make alterations, or even try their hand at gardening, cooking and decorating. Home doesn't just demonstrate what looks good – it explains what adds value, and why. The magazine offers readers affordable and accessible choices, help with do-it-yourself projects, and provide advice for renovations. It’s for men and women with ordinary lives, ordinary careers and ordinary homes; people who want to add value to their home with a limited budget.

Home Renovations South Africa

ALL THE COLOURS OF the rainbow • These brilliant ideas will have you itching to get stuck in with some paint and a brush!

Colourful & characterful, JUST LIKE ITS INHABITANTS • A Cape Town foodie and her loved ones are living the dream in their renovated heritage home.

KAROO CHARACTER in white • This Victorian farmhouse has been given a fresh, contemporary look enhanced by its beautiful natural surroundings.

Silo sojourn • Sumari Milner realised the potential of two historic farm structures – and now guests are lining up to stay here!

It’s an original! • An inspired couple turned a 19th century blacksmith’s stable into a quaint guest cottage.

Think big in a small space • A young teacher did her homework carefully before renovating her first home – and passed with flying colours!

RISE TO THE challenge! • Armed with plenty of DIY know-how and discarded items, this couple turned their old kitchen into a charming rustic space during the Covid-19 lockdown – for less than R3 000!

A new kitchen FOR LESS THAN R32 000 • What started as a simple flooring project turned into a full renovation!

SPRING INTO ACTION WITH ISOBOARD • Improve your home’s comfort with energy-efficient IsoBoard.

‘It was a miracle’ • They were advised to flatten the lean-to that would ultimately become their dream kitchen, but the Dabners stuck to their guns.

Cast in concrete • In 2016, Andrew and Victoria Zekveld won our Fix it with Flair competition with their kitchen makeover – they show us how they built their impressive worktops.

THE BEST USE of space • This classy bathroom proves that dynamite comes in small packages.

Contemporary farm style • When this previously dilapidated building was converted into a charming guest cottage, the front stoep was transformed into a spacious showstopper.

A practical guide for renovators • Getting the basics right from the get-go will save you a lot of effort – and money – in the long run.

1 Welcome!

2 The heart of the home

3 Bedroom beauty

4 The best bathrooms

5 Get clever with containers

6 Entertainment areas

7 Up the garden path

The best tools for the job • The most appropriate tool for a project is not necessarily the most expensive, but it is important to use the right one. This selection should make your DIY tasks much easier…

We love these! • While judging this year’s Fix it with Flair competition, the following projects stood out – if only we could shoot every entry. Take a look; they’re full of brilliant ideas!

It’s a fixer-upper! • Renovators see potential in everything because something ugly can only become more beautiful, says Wicus Pretorius. If a year made hideous by a pandemic needs a little ‘sprucing up’, why not start in your own home?