Country Homes

Toodyay Shack by A Workshop

Featured Project This Country Shack Feels More Like a Tent or a Boat in the Landscape Metaphors of sailing a yacht or camping out in a tent are conjured in this home on the banks of the Avon River.

Arrow Studio by Nervegna Reed Architecture

Featured Project Has a Piece of Space Junk Landed in This Backyard? Clad in shiny galvanised steel with arrow-like ends, this budget studio looks almost otherworldly in its country Victorian backyard.

Mindalong House by A Workshop

Featured Project 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.

Blackwood Studio by Adam Kane Architects

Featured Project Modern Barn Outside, Minimal Studio and Gallery Space Inside A new studio space and garage are positioned on this rural property to create a sheltered entry for the exisiting home.

Trentham House by Adam Kane Architects

Featured Project Living and Alfresco Pavilion Captures the Sun and Connects the Garden A new living pavilion built from concrete blocks and with large windows facing the sun contrasts with the original weatherboard home.

Tent House by Sparks Architects

Featured Project A Unique Family Home Covered Entirely By a Tent Structure Tucked away in Noosa's bushy hinterland is a tent house - a place that gives the sense of permanent camping without sacrifice...

Sampson House by Source Architects

Featured Project North Facing Living Spaces Provide Space and Light to This Home This 1920s home was transformed by an extension that refocusses living areas and a master retreat on a new north-facing courtyard.

Shadow Cottage Daylesford by MRTN Architects

Featured Project Daylesford Cottage Updated with Sensitive, Japanese-Inspired Addition With the option to demolish and start from scratch, MRTN Architects instead create a sensitive addition to this Victorian cottage.

Mudjimba by Chris Klar Architects

Featured Project A Tropical Home for a Couple to Sit Back and Enjoy the Bush Setting A home near Noosa is designed for the area's sub-tropical climate and to maximise the owner's enjoyment of the bush setting.

Samford Valley Small House by

Featured Project This Modern Tropical Home is a Granny Flat for a Hip Elderly Couple A modern retreat for an elderly couple built on the family property - the perfect spot to enjoy retirement close to family.

White Shack by mishack

Featured Project A Rural Retreat Fit for an '80s Pop Star and His Creative Family Built for a family bursting with creative souls, this shack needed to be as stylish and as interesting as the people living in it.

Mt Duneed House by Lachlan Shepherd Architects

Featured Project Rusty and Weathered, This Home Looks Like It Has Been Here Forever Built from recycled timber and rusting steel, this Mt Duneed home already looks old, yet is built to last with little maintenance.

Mt Macedon House by Field Office Architecture

Featured Project A Home On a Challenging Site is Designed to Resist Bushfire Built on a challenging site with significant bushfire risk, this home enjoys amazing views over bushland in the Macedon Ranges.

#thebarnTAS by workbylizandalex

Featured Project Barn Conversion Does "As Much As Necessary, As Little As Possible" This incredible barn conversion retains much of the original stone and timber work highlighted against new insertions where necessary.

Prefab Staff Accommodation by Modscape

Featured Project 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.

Prefab Staff Accommodation by Modscape

New Farmhouse French Island by Lai Cheong Brown

Featured Project This Off-Grid Prefab House Is Perfect for Beautiful but Isolated Site To construct this off-grid home on Victoria's French Island, prefabricated modules had to be transported by barge to the isolated site.

New Farmhouse French Island by Lai Cheong Brown

Archer Family Residence by Kuhnellco Architecture

Featured Project Simple Details and Honest Materials Reflect Harsh Beauty of this Site After the 2003 Canberra bushfires, this site was rereleased. The new home explores the idea of new beginnings for a young family.

Green West House by Source Architects

Featured Project Dark 1980s Home in Rural Australia Gets a Modern Reboot Like all good '80s movies, this dated home has been given a modern reboot. The home was transformed within the existing footprint.

Yallingup Eco House by Threadgold Architecture

Featured Project A Modern Off-Grid Eco-House Surrounded by a Permaculture Farm Supporting the clients' desire for a sustainable lifestyle, this off-grid home uses passive solar design to reduce energy consumption.

The Whittaker Cube by Dravitzki Brown

Featured Project A Smaller Home Allows for Immaculate Details and Rich Materials If you want the look and feel of luxury at your home, it pays to think a bit smaller and pay attention to the details.

Box Lite Corrondella by BOX Living

Featured Project 'Your House Is Like a Box' Can No Longer Be Considered an Insult... A young Wellington couple with a modest budget and small and challenging block chose a Box™ design-build for their first home.

Daylesford Prefab House by Prebuilt

Featured Project 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.

Daylesford Prefab House by Prebuilt

Melaleuca House by Sabi Design

Featured Project When You Live in the Tropics, You Need a Home for Outdoor Living Melaleuca House was designed to embrace an outdoor lifestyle for a family relocating from Darwin to more rural Howard Springs.

Waitpinga Retreat by Mountford Williamson Architecture

Featured Project 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.

Foxground by Nettleton Architects

Featured Project A Thoughtful Home for an Elderly Widower and His Visiting Family Built on a site with huge sentimental value, this home built for an elderly WWII veteran is low-maintenance, accessible and secure.

Gogo Bach by Herbst Architects

Featured Project Two Uninspiring Cabins Bought for a Steal Become a Stylish Retreat These two cabins have become something much grander than the typical granny flat or affordable beach shack they're usually used for...

Armidale House by Those Architects

The Crossing by Studio2 Architects

Featured Project Sculptural Hilltop Home and Writer's Studio the Perfect Entertainer New Zealand home and writer's studio fuses the look of rural farm buildings and the dramatic local landscape into one sculptural form.

The Crossing by Studio2 Architects

Garden House by Baracco and Wright Architects

Featured Project With Translucent Walls This Minimal Home Melts into the Landscape The most minimal house you could imagine - a platform for living within a translucent shell, set in a beautiful natural landscape.

Garden House by Baracco and Wright Architects

K Valley House by Herbst Architects

Featured Project Rusting Corrugated Iron on this Stunning Home is Like Rural Camouflage The perfect retreat for a director and camera operator in the film industry, this home has no shortage of cinematic drama.

K Valley House by Herbst Architects

Country Homes

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