Home & Garden

A home runs on the appliances and fittings behind it. This section covers everything for the Australian home and garden — kitchen appliances, furniture, cleaning, heating and cooling, laundry and outdoor living — compared on build quality, practicality and value.

We've already published in-depth kitchen, furniture, garden, vacuum and climate guides, with more bathroom and décor guides landing progressively. Browse by category below to find what you need.

How We Choose What to Recommend

Every product we cover is reviewed the same way: we research what's actually available in Australia, compare specifications and pricing, and dig into verified customer feedback before anything makes our list.

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The 8 Best Dish Drying Mats in Australia

A dish drying mat is a flat absorbent or draining surface that sits on the kitchen bench beside or under ...

A variety of best dishwashing tablets available in Australia, shown in a natural home kitchen setting.

The 8 Best Dishwashing Tablets in Australia

Dishwashing tablets are pre-measured, single-dose detergent blocks built for automatic dishwashers, combining a degreasing surfactant, a bleach-based stain remover, a ...

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The 6 Best Honey in Australia

Honey is the natural sweet substance bees produce from plant nectar, and manuka honey specifically comes from bees foraging the ...

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The 10 Best Reusable Water Bottles in Australia

Best reusable water bottle Australia: 10 insulated steel, Tritan and glass bottles compared on cold-retention hours, lid design and real buyer complaints.

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The 10 Best Advent Calendars in Australia

An advent calendar is a 24-door countdown to Christmas, with a small gift behind each door: chocolate, a toy, a ...

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The 9 Best Bread Bins in Australia

Keeping a loaf fresh on an Australian kitchen bench means solving two opposite problems with one container: sealing out air ...

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The 6 Best Bunk Beds for Kids in Australia

A bunk bed for kids is a bed frame that stacks two sleeping platforms on top of each other, or ...

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The 9 Best Oven Cleaners in Australia

Whether an oven cleaner is a spray, gel or paste changes how long it needs to sit and how safe ...

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The 6 Best Electric Fireplaces in Australia

An electric fireplace is a freestanding, wall-mounted or recessed heater that reproduces the look of a real fire with LED ...

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The 8 Best Hedge Trimmers in Australia

A hedge that creeps half a metre over the fence line is one of the most common neighbour disputes Australian ...