How Kiwis across Aotearoa celebrate Christmas

The latest from NZ House & Garden magazine If this email is not displayed correctly, [click here]( to view an online version. [NZ House & Garden]( Hi {NAME}, Whether you’re ready or not the festive season is nigh and we’ve gone all-out in the December issue, on sale today. Our homeowners have taken the Christmas spirit to heart to show us how they dress their homes and make merry. For the Duffy family in Ōmokoroa in the Bay of Plenty, Christmas can’t come soon enough. When parents Haley and John returned home some years back from working overseas, they arrived with three tea chests of Christmas decorations, so the annual traditions for the now family of six were fixed early. The three Christmas trees appear in November and family sessions icing Christmas cookies on the deck and making gingerbread houses are all part of it. Celebrations also start early for Wellington’s Andrea and David McGuire with a road trip to the same Wairarapa farm to buy their tree each year. Then Andrea goes to town with lots of fairy lights and vintage glass baubles she bought at auction a decade ago. For the interior designer homeowner of our Home of the Month, Catherine Evans, flowers and floral wreaths from Curated Botanics stylishly set the scene. You can visit this beautifully renovated Auckland villa as part of the NZ House & Garden Tours early next year. Book your tickets at [nzhouseandgardentours.co.nz](. We wanted our upfront styled feature to provide ideas for a carefree Kiwi Christmas outdoors. Wellington stylist Amanda Holland captured the concept perfectly with fresh flowers, colour and the promise of a relaxing day. The December issue also includes the ultimate Gift Guide with loads of gifting ideas, many of which are New Zealand made, along with recipes for a modern take on festive food and decadent desserts for the Big Day. However you choose to celebrate the festive season it’s been a hard year and so I’m hoping it involves a holiday, delicious food and fun times all shared with friends and family. Naomi Larkin Editor In our December issue Stylish reno ticks the family box too An Auckland designer shares her Christmas style and her recently renovated villa, with its oak herringbone floor that can easily withstand a rugby team of seven-year-olds running through the house. It’s the Home of the Month in our December issue. 'Tis always the seasonChristmas can never come around soon enough for this dedicated family who beautifully decorate not one, but three trees every festive season. Their Bay of Plenty home is awash with colourful touches because "colour is a personality injection", the owner says. Love thy neighbour's home This Wellington family snapped up the house next door when it became available which made for a much easier renovation. See the results — and how the family gets festive — in our December issue, on sale now. Where the wild things grow Oamaru's cooler climate has proven ideal for a passionate gardener who has, once again, turned a plain patch of land into a wild and romantic sea of soft blooms. A carefree ChristmasFresh flowers, colour, good food and the promise of a relaxing day — that's a Kiwi Christmas. Our latest issue has plenty of festive decorating inspiration. A treasure trove in TaurangaThe owner of this Bay of Plenty bungalow shares the unexpected journey of how her interiors showroom eventually became her home. [( Giveaway Win our collectors editionNZ House & Garden: Interiors to Love is a room-by-room journey through inspirational homes from all around New Zealand. We have 10 copies to give away, valued at $15.90 each. Interiors to Love is on sale from 7 December, or get yours at the earlybird price of $11.90 [here]( until 29 November. Competition closes 11.59pm on 30 November. 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