Bluestone Sanctuary Reimagines a Richmond Miners' Cottage

This 170-year-old bluestone cottage gets a luxe and layered upgrade—without losing its old-world soul.

A Moroccan-Turkish Daydream in Sydney’s Suburbs

Inspired by Moroccan and Turkish design, this Sydney home is a bold, curved, character-filled celebration of individuality.

From Deceased Estate to Dream Home: A Glamorous Art Deco Revival

This 1930s P&O-style home had stunning bones but needed a major rethink. See how it became a light-filled, modern family haven!

A Home Where Every Day Feels Like a Holiday

A thoughtfully designed coastal retreat that blends timeless elegance with a relaxed, holiday-like atmosphere every single day.

Industrial Past Meets Contemporary Cool in Loft Apartment

A masterful blend of functionality and bold design in a compact space allows the owner to live large with less.

From Chaos to Calm: The Transformation of a Disjointed Home

Thoughtful redesign turns a chaotic Melbourne home into a modern sanctuary.

When History and Modern Design Collide

Clever light design and curves transform a cramped terrace into a haven.

From Worst to First: How This Home Became the Street Star

Curved walls, clever design, and connection to the park—Fringe Dweller strikes the perfect balance between privacy and openness.

Coastal Elegance Meets Family Living in Avalon Beach

A modern beach house that blends timeless elegance with the dynamic needs of a young family…

A curvy idea turns a challenging block into a sunlit sanctuary

A surprising solution was the key to unlocking natural light and a sense of space on this dark, narrow site…

Embracing the Coastal Lifestyle: River of Life, Curl Curl

Soak in the fluid lines and light and airy interiors of this modern coastal home in Sydney's Northern Beaches...

Stunning Art Deco home renovation blends classic with modern

This Art Deco home renovation references the original to create a home that is full of character and perfect for modern living.

This home proves there's nothing pokey about small footprint living

Good design means you can live larger with less, meaning this compact home feels bright, spacious and surrounded by greenery.

This Stunning Modular Home is Also a High-performance Passive House!

Built to Passive House standards, this home has exceptional energy-efficiency performance for comfortable living year-round.

A Stunning Self-contained Studio Perched Among the Trees

Sitting on top of the garage with leafy views, the new self-contained living space is perfect for adult children or visiting family.

Enter the Light: A New Home Designed to Maximise Winter Sun

Access to natural light is so important, yet often overlooked. With thoughtful design, your home can be light and bright year-round.

The Most Important Part of This House Is the Space That Is Not Built

A generous north-facing courtyard becomes the best part of this house, bringing light, breezes and the outdoors into every space.

Love Art Deco? Here's a Take on It That's Perfect for Modern Living

If you love the curved lines and detailing of the Art Deco period, but crave open spaces and natural light, this home is for you...

Renovating a House That Has Been in the Family for Almost 70 Years…

Imagine having a classic modernist house in the family for three generations? How would you sensitively renovate it?

A Staged Reno Over 10 Years Helps This Home Change With Its Family

Staging the renovation of this home into two phases made budgetary sense and allows the home to adapt to the family's changing needs.

Feng Shui Helps This Reno Achieve Harmony and Happiness

In many ways, Feng Shui aligns with the principles of good design. Here, Feng Shui achieves a light, harmonious and delightful home.

Multi-generational Family Pool Their Resources to Create Perfect Home

Pooling for a pool: would you join forces with your parents to create the ultimate inner-city pad complete with a rooftop pool?

Amazing What an Average Post-war Brick House Can Become...

This post-war brick house has been transformed into a stylish modern home with a thoughtful addition and creative reworking.

Inspired by the Original Home a New Pergola Improves Outdoor Living

This new pergola uses the original home's roofline as inspiration to provide additional shade without blocking light and views.

A Revamp Turns Tired '90s Townhouse Into Bright and Welcoming Home

It's hard to believe 1994 was nearly 30 years ago, but this home was sure showing its age. No more thanks to a fun and bright revamp.

Good Architecture Has the Potential to Create a Better Lifestyle

Architecture isn't about the bells and whistles. It's about creating spaces which help to improve your lifestyle. Like this home!

A Curve in the Boundary Is Turned Into an Asset at This Playful Home

Unusually-shaped boundaries can be a challenge, particularly on sites as tight as this; you've got to turn a challenge into an asset!

Quirky Home Hides Plenty of Surprises Behind its Shingled Exterior

The neighbours are shifting uncomfortably in their seats as this new kid on the block shows them what modern living should look like...

Narrow Block? This Home Design Offers a Clever Solution...

How do you get sun, light and a sense of space when your block is only 6 metres wide? This home has some solutions for narrow blocks.

It Might Look Like a Single Home, But Looks Can Be Deceiving

A home for a couple and a separate home for their adult children. Plus it's on a very public, very tricky triangular site!

New Additions Transform This Terrace Into a Multi-generational Home

New living areas and a backyard studio centred around a landscaped courtyard make this home perfect for current and future generations.

Designed Around a Central Courtyard, This Home Maximises Light

With numerous facets to bounce light around the home, Cloud House feels like living in a cloud surrounded by beautiful, diffused light.

This Studio Shows Us What's Possible in Our Own Backyard...

With housing (un)affordability growing and our city limits bursting, this project shows us there's still space in the inner city.

Splice House Fuses Old and New With Sneaky Precision

In an area with challenging heritage overlays, Splice House fits an impressive modern addition within the allowable setbacks...

This Home Sits Comfortably on an Expansive Rural Property

Oriented for passive heating and cooling and taking in stunning views of the landscape, Paddock House feels right at home in the bush.

A Light-filled Beach House Just Two Kilometres from the City?

With an incredible site just one street from the beach and close to the city, these architects built their ideal family home.

What Role Do Our Homes Play in Helping Us Recover and Reset?

Settling into regular life takes some adjustment for a fly-in-fly-out worker who spends a month away from home. This new home helps.

A House with a Guest Room is Created with Three Simple Pavilions

At this minimal home, the space in between the living area and bedrooms is just as crucial as the spaces themselves.

How Would You Design a House for a Scuba Diver?

If you're noticing a bit of an underwater theme in this home, it's no accident. This is a home for a keen scuba diver!

This Old Victorian-era 'Lady' Gets a Modern Bustle Dress Makeover

The history and beauty of this old home are respected and celebrated by a bustle dress-inspired addition.

Tent House Challenges the Expectations of What a Weekend House Can Be

A retreat built by the architect and a group of architecture students is a hands-on, experimental process from design to construction.

This Sydney Home Turns the Traditional Aussie House on its Side

A typical Australian home uses the full width of the block and puts a garden in front and out the back; this home is far from typical.

The Newest House on the Street Looks Like It Could Be the Oldest

Thanks to recycled brick, this new studio looks like it could be the oldest building in this Richmond laneway.

Turns Out Hemp Is Useful for More Than Rope and Yoga Pants

Built from rammed earth, timber and hempcrete, this home is a healthy and environmentally sensitive space for three generations.

This Renovation Turns the Traditional Terrace Layout on its Head

Where a traditional terrace is dark and cellular this renovation finds light and open space, creating an addition of contrasts.

This is How You Deal With an Unusual Triangular Site...

What do you do with a triangular site? Perhaps the best solution is to think outside of the box. Or triangle, as the case may be...

Curving and Perching Overhead, This Addition is Playful and Light

Perched House is a renovation that defies perceptions - feeling much larger than it actually is thanks to some clever tricks.

Footscray Apartment Renovated for More Flexibility and Light

An unorthodox, but clever, renovation creates a series of light-filled flexible living spaces and creates the illusion of space.

A Modern Home Designed With Deference to Heritage Suburb

This double storey home is designed to look like a single storey home so it fits into its heritage neighbourhood.

A House Where the Journey is More Interesting than the Destination

Old and new are connected by a black tunnel with no end immediately in sight. But there is a light-filled end to this tunnel.

A Bold, Curvaceous Joinery Unit Completely Transforms this Apartment

Both architecture and furniture, the joinery unit designed to fit in the middle of this studio apartment allows for numerous functions.

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.

Ingenious 'Sun Shells' Grab Light and Reflect It Deep Into This Home

Watch the clouds float by in this home which has an unexpected sense of space and light in spite of its narrow, overshadowed site.

A New Two-Storey Living Space Unfurls From Original Federation Home

In contrast the cellular plan of the existing Federation-era home, this light extension is open-plan where spaces overlap and interact.

Coastal Holiday House Gets an Upgrade Fit for a Permanent Sea-change

A 1970s-era weatherboard holiday house gets a serious revamp to make it perfect for Grandparents' retired living.

A Rabbit Warren is Transformed into an Elegant and Spacious Apartment

A rabbit warren-like early '90s apartment is transformed by C+M Studio into a chic coastal residence focusing on warm natural materials.

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.

A Fun, Kid-Friendly Home for a Family with Four Children Under Four

A sculptural timber pod conceals the bathroom and laundry, allowing the living area to flow seamlessly into the garden on two sides.

Craftsmanship and Modern Interventions Update this Heritage Home

A balance of privacy and the celebration of communal spaces allows two generations to comfortably live together in this renovated home.

Cocoon: A Home? Or a Zeppelin That Crash-Landed in the Australian Bush?

You don't get homes much more unusual than Cocoon -- a zeppelin-shaped home lofts above its steep site, nestled in the canopy of Australian native treetops.

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.

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.

Butter Factory Loft: Walls So Curvaceous They Could Be Cut From Butter

This luxurious loft apartment is full of organic curves that could be carved from butter - appropriate because it occupies space in a former butter factory.

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.

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!

Abbotsford Residence: Behind the Curved Facade is a Very Rational Home

Don't be deceived by the curved exterior. Abbotsford Residence is rational -- inside and out -- to deal with a heavily constrained site.

Bow House Twists and Contorts to Let the Sun In

Everyone needs a bit of sunshine in their lives. That's why Bow House goes out of its way to let the sunshine in.

A Finely Crafted Ski Lodge at Lake Crackenback

When there's snow on the slopes, there's no better place to head after a long day than this finely crafted ski lodge. There's even a Japanese style bath to soak your aching bones.

Think Your House is Small? Think Again. Look What Just 33m2 Gets You

Japanese Architects are used to dealing with tiny sites. Love House has enough space for a couple (and a bunny) in just 33 square meters.

Bondi Apartment: Relaxed Beach Retreat in the Heart of Bustling Bondi

This apartment renovation in the middle of one of Sydney's busiest suburbs still manages to capture the relaxed nature of a beach house…

At Merton House a Curving Dark Timber Wall Creates the New Home's Edge

Merton House reinterprets the bay windows, scale and arrangement of internal spaces to create a contemporary kitchen and living spaces.

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