Expansive paddocks behind the home evoke memories of Hampstead Heath...
Rammed earth, solar power, and handcrafted details create a unique retreat where the design feels at home in the landscape.
Texture takes centre stage, with dark finishes and tactile materials blending the home into its surroundings.
Sheltered from wild winds, this off-grid hilltop home opens up to breathtaking lakeside views. Explore its design secrets!
This 1960s bungalow didn’t belong in the countryside… until it did. See the transformation!
Inspired by old farm sheds, this contemporary farmhouse respects its rural roots while embracing sustainability and modern living.
A unique design means that living in this home keeps you constantly in touch with the stunning natural environment.
Combining energy-efficient design and a connection to the outdoors allows this modern farmhouse to offer the best of both worlds…
This off-grid sustainable house balances modern comforts with off-grid sustainable living on a 37-hectare property in Birregurra.
Explore how this family built a sustainable, energy-efficient home using innovative hempcrete construction in a stunning location.
Responding to its unique landscape and climate, this home is the kind we should be building in Australia, not more McMansions.
With a national park as its backyard, the location is stunning, but there were some challenges to overcome with this country home...
Creating a modern home that takes advantage of its semi-rural setting with plenty of mid-century flair is no simple task...
A new family home to complete this farm complex takes advantage of views over rolling hills and complements the existing buildings.
Constructed from two shipping containers, this tiny house embraces the landscape and can even be relocated to a new site.
With COVID-19, remote working and a beautiful new home in the country, the time seemed perfect for this family's tree change.
Designed for simple living to enjoy the surrounds, this home uses naturally beautiful materials to create a relaxing bush retreat.
This modular home was designed and built off-site and then transported to its remote location where it now takes in stunning views.
A modern farmhouse for a couple with overseas relatives needs to adapt from a comfortable home for two to a home for many more.
The practicality of a classic hat proves the perfect design inspiration for an off-grid home in Australia's outback.
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.
This addition to a historic bluestone farmhouse doesn't match the original building, but it pays its respects in its own way...
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.
This warm, textural home creates a connection to place, captures views and creates a humble retreat from the elements (and the city).
Could you live in a tiny house? CABN, an Australian tiny house tucked away in the Adelaide Hills, gives you a test drive (stay).
It's surprising how many everyday items can't be recycled. Being fully recyclable, this home is surprising for the opposite reason!
Inspired by shearing sheds in the area and rhyming with the original home, a clever addition transforms this weekender.
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.
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 shared love of music inspired this accessible, environmental and acoustically-conscious home for a retired couple.
Sitting sympathetically in an open paddock, this off-grid house captures views without compromising on environmental performance.
The architectural equivalent of a lamington made with Swiss cheese and dusted with paprika sounds like a recipe for disaster, but is it?
Clad in shiny galvanised steel with arrow-like ends, this budget studio looks almost otherworldly in its country Victorian backyard.
A combination of bricks, timber, corrugated iron and translucent sheeting help this home complement its semi-rural landscape.
A new studio space and garage are positioned on this rural property to create a sheltered entry for the exisiting home.
A home near Noosa is designed for the area's sub-tropical climate and to maximise the owner's enjoyment of the bush setting.
Built for a family bursting with creative souls, this shack needed to be as stylish and as interesting as the people living in it.
Built from recycled timber and rusting steel, this Mt Duneed home already looks old, yet is built to last with little maintenance.
This incredible barn conversion retains much of the original stone and timber work highlighted against new insertions where necessary.
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.
A home set in an expansive garden is divided and sheltered into quadrants by cross-shaped Gabion baskets, creating a variety of spaces.
To construct this off-grid home on Victoria's French Island, prefabricated modules had to be transported by barge to the isolated site.
Supporting the clients' desire for a sustainable lifestyle, this off-grid home uses passive solar design to reduce energy consumption.
Clad in COLORBOND® steel with a contemporary take on the traditional pitched roof, this prefab house looks right at home in the bush.
Melaleuca House was designed to embrace an outdoor lifestyle for a family relocating from Darwin to more rural Howard Springs.
These two cabins have become something much grander than the typical granny flat or affordable beach shack they're usually used for...
New Zealand home and writer's studio fuses the look of rural farm buildings and the dramatic local landscape into one sculptural form.
The perfect retreat for a director and camera operator in the film industry, this home has no shortage of cinematic drama.
In the Californian desert temperatures can soar to over 40 degrees. This family built a home without air-conditioning - are they mad?
While this modern farm house feels shiny and new, traditional elements like the generous verandah gives it the best of both worlds.
Completely off-grid and raised up to avoid occasional flooding, Platypus Bend House cantilevers spectacularly over a bushland clearing.
A Melbourne home designed by Alexandra Buchanan Architecture creates a cascade of contemporary family living spaces in a bushfire area.
This modern farmhouse combines a manager's residence, stable and self contained two-bedroom apartment in finely detailed modern sheds.
Perched on top of a hill overlooking the stunning ocean along the Victoria's Great Ocean Road is a home that balances heavy and light.
Brick Bay House's L-shaped plan has a number of benefits - sheltering from winds, blocking road noise and embracing the ocean view.
Set in stunning surrounds Wakatipu Guest House is a two bedroom home that provides comfortable accommodation for up to eight people.
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.
The Plinth House proves bigger is not always better. The extension provides a more comfortable living space and kitchen in a minimal footprint.
A modest, energy efficient home in New Zealand's spectacular wine country makes the most of sweeping views…
A rundown stone cottage on a sustainable timber plantation undergoes a massive transformation to become a simply stunning family home.
Nestled on the banks of the Murray River in Victoria, Australia, this tiny self-sufficient cabin retreat becomes part of the wider landscape.
A series of spaces at this small weekender create numerous places sit and enjoy the inspiring surrounds which are comfortable year round.
A local shed company prefabricated this home, saving both time and cost. But Whyatt House doesn't look like a typical shed…
The Delta Cabin uses local materials which contrast with the natural surroundings, while still feeling warm and human.
Über Shed is not *just* a shed. It's also a rural retreat that reinterprets the rustic charm of traditional agricultural sheds for modern living.
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.
Dogtrot House is a permanent campsite. Like early one room cabins built by farmers, it has everything you need and nothing you don't.
From the outside Hill Plain House has an Australian agricultural feel. Inside, it's another story; dark moody and richly detailed.
The 8.2-Star Energy Rated Leura Lane House is an impressive 2-bedroom prototype for energy efficient housing perfect for rural sites.
Southern Highlands House's new tiny work space, feels more like an art piece than an office - well proportioned, beautifully curved and effortlessly simple.
Tucked into a particularly wild and isolated part of Victoria's Central Highlands you'll find this small bush house built with trees found on the site.
Bridge House takes full advantage of a naturally stunning site, straddling a creek bed and touching the earth lightly environmentally and physically.
Salt Creek Rural Retreat is a one bedroom, one bathroom sustainable accommodation. The tiny prefab building enjoys beautiful views over 20 acres.
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.
Permanent Camping brings you in touch with nature in a way only camping can. And because it's permanent, you can forget wrestling with poles and pegs...
This superb Mountain Retreat utilises local stone to minimise impact to the external environment, but maximise the internal environment.
A home for an engineer and an author combines a rational, simple plan with a ton of texture and 'slight chaos' to satisfy both personalities.
Rammed Limestone is the perfect material for Wall and Wall House — locally sourced, beautiful texture and natural colour and high thermal mass.
This modern farmhouse in Tonimbuk allows the owner to 'live in the environment' thanks to large glass sliding doors.
Incorporating the qualities of a traditional farmhouse ensures this modern farmhouse will feel like a home from the get-go.
A home on the family property for a retiring couple, Storrs Road House aims to reflect in miniature the site and its history.
A contemporary interpretation of traditional rural Australian architecture, Hinterland House epitomises modern Australian style.
Holly Tree Farm replaces a home which was sadly lost in a fire in style — by reusing salvaged materials and mimicking surrounding buildings.
Kids Pod is just for the little ones, connected to the house proper by a glazed bridge. And it couldn't be more fun…
In Wallaby Lane House, a family seeking a tree change find a new, more self-sufficient way of living. The home makes the most of their rural site.
Somers Courtyard House is a low maintenance home to accommodate an expanding family with regular guests. The best part? It's completely off-grid!
A series of shed-esque structures lap the coast in this simple, but thoughtful addition to a rural surf town in New Zealand.
A Miesian inspired glass pavilion in a rural landscape setting not dissimilar to that portrayed in a Claude Monet painting…
A stunning, but rugged landscape influenced the design of Lake Hawea Courtyard House, giving the owners a space protected from the elements.
Sandhills Road House draws on the most basic and humble rural sights to create a stunning contemporary beach bach.
Shoal Bay Bach is an unpretentious home where you can kick off your shoes and not worry about walking sand through the house.
McKenzie House uses the same 4x3 metre grid of the surrounding Apple Orchard to ensure it feels harmonious and connected to its surrounds.
At Humbug Studio the striped canvas However, these canvas stripes are in fact deck chairs from which to view paintings hanging in the studio.
Sean Godsell Architects explore the traditional verandah to create a stunning beach home sheltered from the extremes of coastal life.
