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This beachside apartment had the makings of a beautiful home. It just needed some assistance…
With a national park as its backyard, the location is stunning, but there were some challenges to overcome with this country home...
Spooked by the rising cost of building? Perhaps you don't need to be...
A beautiful studio on Tasmania's coastline offers the perfect place to relax and soak in the views.
Two pavilions offset to capture light and views and create a sheltered courtyard help this home look and feel much larger than it is.
By thinking differently about the floor plan, this modular beach hosue is able to take advantage of stunning ocean views.
Bathroom renovations are popular. They're also expensive and risky. Here are the tips and trends you need to know before you start...
This triangular beach house nestled among the gums and grasses is the perfect slice of beach house living only an hour from Melbourne.
Creating a modern home that takes advantage of its semi-rural setting with plenty of mid-century flair is no simple task...
Courtyard design using robust materials for a low-maintenance home that will age gracefully - perfect for a couple looking to retire.
A new family home to complete this farm complex takes advantage of views over rolling hills and complements the existing buildings.
With stunning bush and ocean views, this home is perched to soak it all in and create a space for relaxation and rejuvenation.
Constructed from two shipping containers, this tiny house embraces the landscape and can even be relocated to a new site.
Not much larger than the original shack but makes better use of the site and views; the perfect place to host friends and family.
The owners of this coastal block enjoyed years of beach holidays before deciding to build. Here's how it shaped their home...
Damp-ridden, cold and leaking, this 1960s home needed a revamp. Luckily, a sensitive approach retains the home's unique character.
A pigeon pair of townhouses allow two brothers and their young families to live side-by-side; the perfect place to raise their kids.
By removing poorly constructed add-ons and creating an open-plan living area as the new heart, this quaint cottage is transformed...
A complex, compact site on a slope and facing a busy road calls for a creative solution: switching the front and back!
A double garage has the perfect amount of space for a new multi-functional studio the owners will get far more use out of.
A house can become dysfunctional as poorly planned renovations alter the layout and strip away original details. But it can be fixed!
Surrounded by bushland, this home is off-grid and bushfire resilient to deal with its beautiful but challenging location.
Built to Passive House standards, this home has exceptional energy-efficiency performance for comfortable living year-round.
An addition sitting high and dry (literally) above the flood level, creates a refuge from the main family home and potential floods.
Half greenhouse, half barn; despite being in a dense inner suburb, this home means it feels like it could be in the country!
A clever design captures bush views and sunlight and turns away from the neighbours so you feel like you're in a world of your own...
Getting light into living areas with a south-facing backyard is tricky. Here it's handled elegantly for an efficient and bright home.
Wanting a place to entertain friends and family, this new addition creates a grand living area overlooking the garden
This heritage warehouse has been sensitively transformed into a home with the careful insertion of joinery units to divide the space.
Far from the classic box-like addition, a series of unique spaces unfurl from the rear of the cottage, opening up to light and garden.
A series of expert moves brings in more light, improves livability and connects this terrace to its courtyard all without extending.
Bungalows are charming homes, but they tend to be dark. This addition finds a way to bring light into the depths of this bungalow.
When thinking about how to create a sustainable and affordable home, the 1960s-era fibro beach shack was the perfect inspiration...
The front verandah of this Californian Bungalow is reinterpreted at the rear of the home to create a shady outdoor living space.
Not that you'd know it now, but this sleek, modern-Japanese-inspired home was once a tired '70s brick pad and what a transformation!
To create space for the kids as they grow, this new bedroom wing sits beautifully in the landscape and meets BAL requirements.
Wesley Spencer from RARA Architecture was shocked at a recent auction. Find out why...
The owners would have ripped this out-of-place fireplace out if they'd had their way, but it's become the centrepiece of this reno...
Creating a light-filled addition where the garden and outdoor spaces feel like an extension of the living areas for year-round use.
On a tricky, but naturally beautiful battle-axe site, this home celebrates its assets and minimises its drawbacks.
Designed with sustainability, low maintenance and natural ventilation in mind, this is a low-budget family home with a difference...
Creative ways to bring more light into the home, even when the backyard doesn't get much sun, makes this home light-filled and airy.
The charred timber addition float in front of the home, complementing the original cream brick and transforming the street appeal.
This Carlton terrace renovation updates ageing interiors to create the perfect home for a collector of colourful art and furniture.
The amount of space you have is one thing, but its functionality, light and flow is a whole other thing.
Sitting on top of the garage with leafy views, the new self-contained living space is perfect for adult children or visiting family.
An addition to this period home sits comfortably alongside the original, oriented to catch the light and open up the backyard.
Access to natural light is so important, yet often overlooked. With thoughtful design, your home can be light and bright year-round.
It's not what you expect when you think of a modular home, but this tricky house continues the surprises continue inside...
Despite a seemingly impossible set of constraints, this terrace has been transformed into a light-filled and sustainable family home.
You don't envisage a townhouse when you think of country town living, but this architect's own home is perfect for her family.
The renovation of this post-war house leans on mid-century details and views of the native landscape to create a special home.
A generous north-facing courtyard becomes the best part of this house, bringing light, breezes and the outdoors into every space.
Chimneys of the old brickworks immediately caught the architect's attention and she knew this renovation needed to capture that view!
Transforming a 1960s apricot-brick unit into the perfect bachelor pad meant rethinking the space and adapting what was already there...
Before the temperature really drops, now is a great time to start to transform your home with these reno ‘must-haves’ for winter entertaining.
Rather than relocate, this family decided on a Queenslander renovation to create the home of their dreams in the street they love.
This studio was designed to minimise costs by maximising efficiency, creating a flexible space that was largely prefabricated off-site.
Others overlooked this heritage-listed home because of its exposure on three sides, but a playful addition turns it into an asset.
This beach house is all about creating informal living spaces, decks and shelter from the sun and wind for optimum beachside living.
A new 60 square metre addition creates a bright and modern living space for this inner-city home.
Perfect for entertaining, this new living pavilion at the back of a 1910s home is light, airy and open to the backyard.
An addition which doesn't overshadow the original heritage house, but improves the home's spaciousness, access to light and the yard.
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...
Once home to the local milkman, this quaint cottage has been transformed into a light and bright home with a surprising sense of space.
A simple, rectangular, double-storey addition was a cost-effective way to gain the space this family needed. Plus some indulgences...
This home, inspired by a jewellery box, is perfect for your most treasured people and possessions: beautiful, safe and ordered.
Modern homes can be criticised for lacking character, but modern doesn't need to equal sterile.
From the street, all you can see is a sliver of the stunning new addition, designed to protect the heritage value of the original home.
At 52 square metres, this two-storey terrace was about the same size as a two-bedroom apartment, now there's space to entertain guests.
Rearranging this apartment opens it up to the views, builds in lots of storage space and finds room for a home office space to boot!
With COVID-19, remote working and a beautiful new home in the country, the time seemed perfect for this family's tree change.
Your builder is the most crucial component of any home renovation project. Here's how to choose a builder for your renovation...
Even a block in a typical housing estate can benefit from an architect's touch, creating a home that's a joy to live in year-round...
The owners of this whole floor apartment in Manly loved the location, but not the dark unfriendly spaces. Luckily, there was a solution!
Transforming a 1980s house into a warehouse loft-inspired home involved removing the roof but the results are more than worth it!
Every good architectural story needs a hero. In this renovation, it's a striking bookshelf which screens a work-from-home space...
This addition to a post-war brick home has a trick up its sleeve to guarantee access to sunlight despite the backyard facing south.
Defying its narrow site, challenging east-west orientation and heritage restrictions, this skinny home manages to feel spacious.
A west-facing backyard and poorly-designed additions left this family with dark mornings and overheated afternoons, but no longer...
Imagine having a classic modernist house in the family for three generations? How would you sensitively renovate it?
Staging the renovation of this home into two phases made budgetary sense and allows the home to adapt to the family's changing needs.
Clever planning allows this small apartment to feel grand and glamourous. Wait until you see how the dressing room transforms...
Passive solar principles, high-quality yet affordable materials and thoughtful design brings high-quality housing within reach.
The roof and layout of the original home serve as the inspiration for a new addition, but a modern twist creates perfect family home.
This 1980s-era home already had a stellar location. Thanks to an internal reno, it has everything else you'd want in a home, too...
The substantial renovation of this terrace transforms the home, but reminders of the past are woven in to create a rich tapestry.
In many ways, Feng Shui aligns with the principles of good design. Here, Feng Shui achieves a light, harmonious and delightful home.
