diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 15b4a853c2..b8a063f1cd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Changelog
  * The `edit bird` on the frontend has been redesigned, and no longer depends on an iframe (Thomas Winter, Gareth Price).
  * New translations for Hungarian, Swedish (Sweden) and Turkish
  * Upgraded jQuery to 2.2.1 (Charlie Choiniere)
+ * Multiple homepage summary items (`construct_homepage_summary_items` hook) now better vertically spaced (Nicolas Kuttler)
  * Fix: Custom page managers no longer raise an error when used on an abstract model
  * Fix: Wagtail's migrations are now all reversible (benjaoming)
  * Fix: Deleting a page content type now preserves existing pages as basic Page instances, to prevent tree corruption
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index ec88761f27..da24637426 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ Contributors
 * Thomas Winter
 * Gareth Price
 * Liam Brenner
+* Nicolas Kuttler
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.rst b/docs/releases/1.4.rst
index b4feb4f990..4d96a4f33d 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.4.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.4.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Minor features
  * The ``Page`` model now has two new methods ``get_site()`` and ``get_url_parts()`` to aid with customising the page URL generation logic
  * New translations for Hungarian, Swedish (Sweden) and Turkish
  * Upgraded jQuery to 2.2.1 (Charlie Choiniere)
+ * Multiple homepage summary items (`construct_homepage_summary_items` hook) now better vertically spaced (Nicolas Kuttler)
 
 
 Bug fixes
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailadmin/static_src/wagtailadmin/scss/layouts/home.scss b/wagtail/wagtailadmin/static_src/wagtailadmin/scss/layouts/home.scss
index e72911e0cf..01e074cb4f 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailadmin/static_src/wagtailadmin/scss/layouts/home.scss
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailadmin/static_src/wagtailadmin/scss/layouts/home.scss
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ header {
     background-color: $color-grey-5;
     margin-bottom: 2em;
     padding-top: 2em;
-    padding-bottom: 2em;
 
     ul.stats {
         @include clearfix();
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@ header {
 
         li {
             @include column(4);
+            margin-bottom: 2em;
 
             &:before {
                 opacity: 0.2;