This is Kelly: An Interwar Gem Gets Her Groove Back

Kelly’s rebirth proves that timeless design and sun-drenched spaces can transform even the most forgotten homes.

Why This Home is Shaking Up a Heritage Street (In a Good Way!)

Not your average front yard – this one is part garden, part community hub, and a functional extension of the home...

Sculptural Roofs and Rammed Earth Walls Define this Bold Design

Rammed earth, solar power, and handcrafted details create a unique retreat where the design feels at home in the landscape.

Resilient and Refined: Meet Blairgowrie’s Sustainable Beachside Beauty

Get a peek inside Blairgowrie’s chic retirement retreat that defies coastal elements and inspires with timeless style.

A modern farmhouse embracing its rural surroundings…

Inspired by old farm sheds, this contemporary farmhouse respects its rural roots while embracing sustainability and modern living.

Imagine if more suburban homes looked and functioned like this…

A suburban home designed for the Australian landscape and climate. If our suburbs looked like this, imagine what we could create.

At his home in the country, every room opens up to the nature...

A unique design means that living in this home keeps you constantly in touch with the stunning natural environment.

Reimagining Tradition: An Off-Grid Farmhouse in Carrickalinga

This modern farmhouse combines tradition with sustainability, offering stunning views and off-grid living in Carrickalinga.

A unique Dependent Persons Unit (DPU) perfectly fits owners' needs

Explore how this Dependent Persons Unit (DPU; AKA Granny Flat) transforms a small space into the ideal retreat that's also demountable.

A Modern Australian Home Nestles Into Stunning Natural Landscape

A combination of bricks, timber, corrugated iron and translucent sheeting help this home complement its semi-rural landscape.

Prefab-ulous Digs for a Couple of Jackaroos on This Malmsbury Farm

Staff quarters never looked so good. This prefab house is a modern and comfortable place to wind down after a long day on the farm.

Modern Family Home Designed with Flexibility and Adaptability in Mind

Designing a family home is challenging because the family's needs change as they grow, that's why you have to plan for change.

Designing a Cost and Environmentally Effective Addition to a Home

Unlike many of the ubiquitous lean-to-style additions in the area, this modern lean-to transforms the original home.

A Black Modular Home Peeks Over the Fence in This Brunswick Backyard

A strikingly contemporary 'black-box' modular addition has popped up in this neighbourhood, adding to the eclectic mix of housing.

Home Among the Gum Trees Makes the Most of a Sloped Site

This family home is nestled amongst the gums, cantilevering over the sloped site so it feels more like a treehouse than a regular home.

Pokey 1960s Home Gets a Much-Needed 21st Century Reboot

This considered addition capitalises on good qualities of the home and fixes the less than ideal. What can be saved in your addition?

This Modular Home Was Built in 12 Weeks and Installed in One Day!

Want a new home for Christmas? With this beautiful modular prefab you could wake up in your finished home on Christmas morning...

Striking Prefabricated Home Settles Into This Stunning Rural Site

Clad in COLORBOND® steel with a contemporary take on the traditional pitched roof, this prefab house looks right at home in the bush.

Australian Retreat Designed to Encourage a Laid-back Lifestyle

Waitpinga Retreat designed as a casual getaway immersed in the natural beauty of nature looks and feels very Australian.

Like a Periscope, This House Curves to Capture the Best Views

With the sun and a majestic tree in one direction and views of a distant nature reserve in the other, this home manages to have it all.

Compact Japanese-Inspired House Lives Large Thanks to a Wall of Glass

Thanks to a double-height space and an expansive openable wall of glass to capture the view, this home feels positively spacious.

Industrial Home/Studio Compliments Illustrator's Punchy Aesthetic

A compact weatherboard cottage explodes from the sides of a prefabricated shed to provide space for an illustrator to live and work.

Almost Watertank-Like, Curved Corrugated Iron Feels Very Australian

Sweeping views of hills, beach, rocks and ocean inspired the fan shaped plan of Fleurieu Beach House - a model for coastal living.

Fine Detailing Takes Rustic, Shed-Like Materials to the Next Level...

This modern farmhouse combines a manager's residence, stable and self contained two-bedroom apartment in finely detailed modern sheds.

A Home Inspired by the Feelings of Camping Under a Simple Tarpaulin

In a natural clearing of bushland, this home with simple detailing and an earthy palette captures the spirit and joy of camping.

A Galvanised Nugget for a Gold Prospector and His Family

On a windy and exposed site, nestled behind a hill, sits a metal clad nugget; a home for a gold prospector and his family...

Seal Rocks House is About the Simple Pleasures of Surf, Sea and Trees

Seal Rocks House takes the qualities of a family home and distills them down to the basics to suit leisure and the serene seaside site.

A Perfectly Proportioned Prefab Cabin Secluded in a Forest Clearing

Musk is a stylish modern prefab cabin designed as a secluded retreat to relax and enjoy 360 degree views of natural bushland.

Architect Turns this Old Two-Car Garage Into Beautiful Family Home

Built on top of an existing brick double garage, Stradwick House feels more spacious thanks to double height spaces and large windows.

Cranky Corner House: A Comfortable and Sustainable Place to Retire

Cranky Corner doesn't sound like the ideal retirement home, but this farmhouse in the Hunter Valley is a comfortable and sustainable place to retire.

Lightbox House: Perforated Floor Not as Terrifying as It Sounds

Lightbox House by Edwards Moore Architects transforms a cramped and dark terrace into a light, bright wonder. Perforated floor, translucent ceiling and all.

Pump House: A Compact Off-Grid Home for Simple Living

Pump House is a compact, off-grid home for simple living. Owners and guests can enjoy a quiet night, a cup of tea and quality time with their horse, George.

Victoria Road House: Colorful Addition Offers a Taste of India

Victoria Road House is a long way from India, but saturated color, radiating patterns and gold metalwork bring an Indian flavor to this surprising addition.

Casa 31_4 Room House: Australia's Most Livable Coolgardie Safe

Casa 31_4 Room House is a Coolgardie Safe for living. But it also uses the layering of history to transition a traditional house into a vibrant modern home.

Tamarama Semi Detached: A Bit of Low Cost Glamor in Tamarama

You wouldn't expect a modest, low-budget renovation in Sydney's luxe suburb Tamarama. Despite the budget, this house has some Tamarama glamor -- Glamarama.

Snowy Mountains House: Living Off The Grid Never Looked This Good

Snowy Mountains House is designed for living off the grid in style. The home works with nature to resist extreme winds, collect rainwater and shed snow.

Kurreki: Glamping Looks Good in this Back to Basics Beach Retreat

In true glamping style Kurreki Beach Retreat has real beds but opens completely onto a courtyard and uses mosquito nets and shower curtains where necessary.

Fremantle Addition: Cottage Renovation Reinterprets Limestone Original

The difficulty of a cottage renovation is connecting old and new. Fremantle Addition reinterprets the original limestone cottage to connect with restraint.

Yarra Street House: Pavilion for Living and Entertaining in Style

Yarra Street House is a pavilion-style extension designed to fit perfectly with a family who loves cooking, outdoor living and entertaining in style.

Southern Highlands House: A Tiny Piece of Art For Working

Southern Highlands House's new tiny work space, feels more like an art piece than an office - well proportioned, beautifully curved and effortlessly simple.

Westbury Crescent Residence: Periscope Lets Light Into This Home

A huge periscope is one way to get light into Westbury Crescent Residence without sacrificing privacy. The clever manipulation of light doesn't stop there!

Islington House Speaks Volumes About Its Proud New Owners

Islington House brings sunlight deep into the home and shows off the personality of its owners. A unique home for a unique couple.

Redhead Alterations: 1970s Home Transformed for Energy Efficiency

A project home from the 1970s with poor solar orientation is reconfigured and realigned. Now it catches the sun for energy efficiency.

Cloud House: Conservative in Front, But a Radical Surprise Out Back

The Cloud House is a recent home extension by architects, McBride Charles Ryan. From the front it's a typical home. From the back, it's a whole other story.

Tinbeerwah House Sits Lightly on a Challenging Site

On a magnificent, but challenging site, Tinbeerwah House is a beautiful, economical home that sits lightly on the land.

Tinshed: Modern Reuse of an Iconic Australian Structure

A quintessential tin shed is reworked into a modern living/working space in Syndey's gritty inner city.

Blackpool House at Home in the Tree Canopy

Tackling difficult topography, a heavily treed site and a modest budget, Blackpool House defiantly lofts amongst the treetops - a modest, modern treehouse.

Gloomy Worker's Cottage Enjoys a Small But Transformative Extension

Modest extension creates an infinitely more liveable home compared to a previously gloomy and confused hodgepodge of poor additions.

XYZ House Extends on Every Axis to Make a Vibrant Family Home

An original modernist home is extended out and up to create more flexible space for the modern family.

This Sustainable Beach House Appears to Hover Above the Ground

Designed in a flood-prone area, this modest, sustainable beach house touches the earth so lightly it appears to float!

Five Courts House's Introverted Design Overcomes Its Gritty Site

The brick exterior of Five Courts House belies its light-filled interior which surrounds five courtyards arranged around the perimeter.

Matai House Updates a Poorly Planned Home from the 1900s

The owners of Matai House lived in this early 1900s home for several years before the alterations, so they knew what needed to change!

Jones House is What a Home Designed for Australia Looks Like

Jones House is a home designed for Australian conditions proving architectural ideas can be achieved without big budgets and costly construction methods.

S_House is a Home Between Two Gardens, But Not in the Traditional Way

S_House divides a long thin lot into two gardens. Unlike a conventional home, S_House embraces both front and rear gardens.

From a Humble Brief, North Fitzroy House Makes Dramatic Transformation

A brief that might have disheartened some architects inspires a humble renovation that dramatically improves 'dog's breakfast' house.

Private Spaces Hover Above the Public Spaces at House Shmukler

Shmukler House by Tribe Studio is conceived as a series of boxes suspended in a large shed-like space.

The Dalmeny's Origami-like Extension is Tech Meets Arts and Crafts

Using the latest laser-cutting technology, The Dalmeny is a shack meets tech-science hybrid solution to the generic suburban environment.

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