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Here are seven easy - and super cute - ways to update to your home.

With shorter days and chillier evenings setting in, it's the perfect time to cosy into a new armchair.

Kim Dotcom has recently downsized to a harbourside apartment that he says he likes a lot more and is "like a tenth of what we had at the mansion".

Craig Hall and his wife, actor Sara Wiseman, star in A Place to Call Home, on TV1, 8.30pm, From this Thursday.

Skye Duncan is a Kiwi living in New York as a Global Cities Designer.

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The 1950s heralded in a new era in homeware.

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For many Kiwis, summer's greatest draw card is a camping spot to get away from it all.

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