New Homes

This family home was designed with best-practice sustainability and Passive House standards to be a comfortable home for years to come.

A modern farmhouse for a couple with overseas relatives needs to adapt from a comfortable home for two to a home for many more.

Using the slope to its advantage, this beach house cascades down the hill and focuses your attention on the stunning coastline views.

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

The practicality of a classic hat proves the perfect design inspiration for an off-grid home in Australia's outback.

This granny (and gramps) flat is the perfect place for a retired couple to call home: close to family, yet private and comfortable.

This retired couple wanted an intimate home for themselves, but what happens when extended family visit? Enter the 'connected plan'...

If you focus on the basics first in sustainable house design, everything else becomes a bonus and your reduce greenwashing overwhelm.

It's difficult to imagine how this tight block in a laneway could become a functional and spacious home and office, but they did it!

These retirees packed up their life in Western Victoria to move to Barwon Heads. What lifestyle would you want out of a seachange?

Imagine if all our inner-city homes were eco-friendly urban farms: what a difference we could make! Here's what that might look like...

Sitting on an exposed hilltop, this off-grid retreat deals with a hostile landscape, but it's worth the effort for that view...

Looking for a simpler lifestyle and to indulge their passion for horses, this modern home for their acreage is perfection.

When you're building or renovating, you spend a lot of time picking the perfect tiles and paint colours, but don't forget about this...

When installing a security system, the question is: professional installation or do it yourself?

When you think of an off-grid house you typically imagine a remote cabin in the bush, but these eco-townhouses tell a different story.

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

This stunning modern Australian beach house has a whole wall of glass, taking in spectacular views of the beach and headland beyond.

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

A new asymmetrical frame encloses the original shack, wrapping new living areas all around to take advantage of the views.

Running the two homes perpendicular to the street allows this dual occupancy design to maximise views and maintain privacy.

Trying to fit a home on a tight, triangular block with a busy street on one side and an easement on the other: crazy or brilliant?

An incredible home for a much-loved grandmother allows her to live independently (but close by). It's better than a retirement village!

This laid back holiday home is tough enough to cope with the kids yet luxurious: the perfect escape to create lifetime memories.

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

A private, yet light-filled coastal home is the perfect fit for a retired couple, with plenty of room for visitors.

A samurai's armour inspires the form and materials of this unique townhouse development, bringing a bit of Japan to the suburbs.

The dramatic timber ceiling sails over new living spaces and outside, shading the home but retaining the best views.

Having lived in the area for 45 years, this downsizer was reluctant to leave. Instead, she built the perfect home in her backyard!

These townhouses challenge the norm and prove you can develop suburban sites without ignoring the character of the neighbourhood.

Inspired by a nearby converted factory, this home brings its own spin to the saw-tooth roofline and the inspiration doesn't stop there.

This environmentally-considerate home is carefully planned to ensure it's compact yet spacious: the least house necessary.

This tropical home locks down when it's not being used, but when it's open, it embraces the natural landscape in every direction...

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

Celebrating an incredible rural site, this eco-friendly home opens up to the views, basks in the sun and collects all its own water.

The clever design for this challenging site allows the home to deal with the threat of bushfire, while still taking in the views.

A creative design for two new townhouses defies many of the qualities of these types of developments to create bright and breezy homes.

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

A modern beach house design replaces the ageing cottage on a property that has been in the family for over 50 years.

A relatively modest-sized home feels more spacious and comfortable thanks to its connection to and interaction with five garden spaces.

Increasingly, multi-generational families are choosing to live together. In this case, how do we design homes which cater for everyone?

So many decision when building or renovating. Architect Wesley Spencer tells us what not to do so we don't make a design faux pas...

The careful siting of this new home helps it take full advantage of the sun and embrace a beautiful, bushy site.

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.

Living near the beach has its pros and cons. A great beach house needs to embrace the sunshine while protecting from cold ocean winds.

From the street, this looks like a house with no windows, but once inside you realise it's the exact opposite...

When the inhabitants of your suburban fringe block include a number of old native trees, mimic their style and go timber all over.

Just because this tiny house is affordable, sustainable and socially responsible doesn't mean it's not stylish to boot...

Oikos, ancient Greek for 'home', is a short-term rental demonstrating luxury is achievable if we down-size our ambitions.

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

So how much does it cost to build a house? Unfortunately, there's no easy answer, but here are a few tricks to get a good estimate...

Instead of sacrificing their productive garden, plants are encouraged to grow up the walls of this clever backyard studio.

This warm, textural home creates a connection to place, captures views and creates a humble retreat from the elements (and the city).

Opening onto a huge deck, with incredible views from every room, you'll never guess what makes this country home so unique.

Could you live in a tiny house? CABN, an Australian tiny house tucked away in the Adelaide Hills, gives you a test drive (stay).

Beachside towns were once dotted with simple fibro beach shacks. This modern home reinterprets that classic style.

It's surprising how many everyday items can't be recycled. Being fully recyclable, this home is surprising for the opposite reason!

It's rare that we feature a dual-occupancy project on Lunchbox Architect, but the attention to quality makes this one stand out...

Architecture as a political statement. What should our suburbs look like as we attempt to squeeze millions more into our cities?

Rather than dedicate space to rooms that will rarely be used, create versatile spaces and spend your remaining budget on luxuries...

It's not often you get to build a new house in the inner city. What would you do if you had a clean slate?

'Does my lounge look big in this [double-height space]' you ask your partner, but for once you hope they reply, 'kinda, yeah'...

A new house, in an old area, on a tight site, with space for a family of four that won't upset the neighbours? Are they dreaming?

Living large in a small house is what we're all about. Here are 18 house plans under 100 square metres to give you some ideas.

With views over the golf course, the architect achieved a mid-century-inspired design, while adhering to local design guidelines.

Perched on a hill in rural New South Wales, JR's Hut has all you need for the relaxing opportunity to switch off and reset.

Perched dramatically on a steep slope overlooking the ocean, this separate studio is the perfect retreat for work, rest or play.

This modern home captures the spirit of mid-century design, with a taste of American diner-style breakfast booths for good measure.

Houses Awards 2018 shortlist was announced recently, will you pick a winner? Also a story about what a sad child I was...

Two Halves House steps down the landscape, separated into a sociable living space and a private sleeping zone.

Built in an area that sometimes encounters snow, this home in the hills has a small footprint, but large volumes make it feel spacious.

Old churches can be a challenge to transform into a home. There's the need to balance history and practicality. This is how you do it.

We're all a little bit obsessed with shipping container houses. You'll understand why once you take a look at this home...

At the top of the hill overlooking Peka Peka Beach, this location could be hostile, but this home has a few tricks up its sleeve...

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

A shared love of music inspired this accessible, environmental and acoustically-conscious home for a retired couple.

With open-plan living and shared sleeping areas all opening onto the outdoors, this is a home to connect with nature and each other.

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.

After the bushfire of 2015, Wye River slowly rebuilds. Let's hope all the new homes are as beautiful and sympathetic as this one...

Blessed with a large block in a good area, this family decided to downsize in the backyard, in spite of the constraints.

This flexible new home built behind the existing is accessible by rear laneway; it could be used as a garage, studio or living space.

By designing a separate, self-contained studio, this family have gained the extra space they need now and flexibility into the future.

Clever thinking achieves a simple timber beach house the client desired while still meeting bushfire and energy efficiency regulations.

In a street of single-storey timber houses, this playful new home reinterprets its neighbours so it feels at home in the street.

Sitting sympathetically in an open paddock, this off-grid house captures views without compromising on environmental performance.

By dividing a complicated inner-city block into a patchwork, a new home sits comfortably between heritage buildings and gritty laneway.

Experimenting with ideas of affordability without sacrificing liveability, North Street House is the perfect home for a young couple.

Bucking the trend of bigger houses on smaller blocks, this compact home borrows outdoor light and views to feel more spacious.

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

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

Precast concrete and timber combine to create a low-maintenance home that will get better with age.

Metaphors of sailing a yacht or camping out in a tent are conjured in this home on the banks of the Avon River.

Datum House uses the scale and proportions of its neighbours as the starting point for a modern and light-filled home.

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

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...

As Torquay becomes increasingly cosmopolitan with more permanent residents architects are rethinking the traditional Aussie beach house.

Just a short walk from the beach and surrounded by Moona trees, a central courtyard is the link between this home and the landscape.

Tucked away in Noosa's bushy hinterland is a tent house - a place that gives the sense of permanent camping without sacrifice...