New Homes

Ballarat House by Eldridge Anderson Architects

Featured Project This Home Demonstrates Benefits of an Architect Versus Off-the-Plan A refined and considered home in a new estate shows the power of using an architect versus buying off-the-plan from a bulk builder.

Olinda House by Bent Architecture

Featured Project A Home That Celebrates Its Site by Bringing the Outdoors In... For tree-changers Matt and Leanne, an important part of their ideal home was making the most of their spectacular site.

Nola Avenue House by Philip Stejskal Architects

Featured Project A Carefree Family Home Takes Its Cues From the Classic Beach House With hints of those classic beach houses, but all the modern needs of a family home, living here would feel like an endless holiday.

A House for All Seasons by POLYstudio

Featured Project A House for All Seasons Designed and Built to Passive House Standards This family home was designed with best-practice sustainability and Passive House standards to be a comfortable home for years to come.

Ramsar Fields by John McAuley Architecture

Featured Project This Modern Farmhouse Is Adaptable and Celebrates a Stunning Location A modern farmhouse for a couple with overseas relatives needs to adapt from a comfortable home for two to a home for many more.

Dorman Beach House by Studio101 Architects

Featured Project Beach House Uses Its Steeply Sloping Site to Focus and Frame Views Using the slope to its advantage, this beach house cascades down the hill and focuses your attention on the stunning coastline views.

One MANI House by Mani Architecture

Featured Project 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...

Upside Down Akubra House by Alexander Symes Architect

Featured Project An Akubra Was the Inspiration for This Incredible Off-grid Home The practicality of a classic hat proves the perfect design inspiration for an off-grid home in Australia's outback.

Fundamental House by Sandbox Studio Architecture & Design

Featured Project A Granny Flat Doesn't Need to Be a Caravan-Sized Blob in the Backyard This granny (and gramps) flat is the perfect place for a retired couple to call home: close to family, yet private and comfortable.

House MT by Kart Projects

Featured Project Rather Than Open Plan, Why Not Go for Connected Plan Instead? This retired couple wanted an intimate home for themselves, but what happens when extended family visit? Enter the 'connected plan'...

Sustainable House Annandale by Day Bukh Architects

Featured Project Get the Basics Right to Make Your Home As Sustainable As Possible If you focus on the basics first in sustainable house design, everything else becomes a bonus and your reduce greenwashing overwhelm.

Fitzroy Lane House by Kennedy Nolan Architects

Featured Project You Won't Believe the Home They Created in This Narrow Laneway 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!

Seachange House by Solomon Troup Architects

Featured Project Real-life Seachange Gives Retirees a Chance to Create a New Lifestyle These retirees packed up their life in Western Victoria to move to Barwon Heads. What lifestyle would you want out of a seachange?

Aquas Perma Solar Firma House by CplusC Architectural Workshop

Featured Project Urban Farming is Just the Beginning at the Sustainable Inner-city Home 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...

Elemental House by Ben Callery Architects

Featured Project Off-grid Retreat Takes in Views of a Stunning But Hostile Landscape Sitting on an exposed hilltop, this off-grid retreat deals with a hostile landscape, but it's worth the effort for that view...

Wistow House by Mountford Williamson Architecture

Featured Project The Simple Life: House Designed for an Acreage; Robust, yet Elegant Looking for a simpler lifestyle and to indulge their passion for horses, this modern home for their acreage is perfection.

30 August 2019

Article The Thing You Might Forget When Planning Your New Home or Reno 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...

29 August 2019

Article DIY Security System Versus Professional When installing a security system, the question is: professional installation or do it yourself?

Clifton Hill Terraces by Field Office Architecture

Featured Project Eco-townhouses Are Effectively Off-grid in the Middle of the City 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.

Rose House 2 by Baracco and Wright Architects

Featured Project 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!

Hart House by Casey Brown Architecture

Featured Project This Modern Australian Beach House Feels Like It's Floating on Water This stunning modern Australian beach house has a whole wall of glass, taking in spectacular views of the beach and headland beyond.

Cloud House by Akin Atelier

Featured Project 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.

Apollo Bay House by Dock4 Architecture

Featured Project New Spaces Draped Around an Original Cedar-lined Shack Like a Tent A new asymmetrical frame encloses the original shack, wrapping new living areas all around to take advantage of the views.

Stradbroke Dual Occupancy by Graham Anderson Architects

Featured Project Clever Siting of Two Beach Houses Allows Both Homes the Best View Running the two homes perpendicular to the street allows this dual occupancy design to maximise views and maintain privacy.

Triangle House by Robeson Architects

Featured Project Triangle House Proves Odd-shaped Blocks Deserve Love, Too 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?

(Gr)ancillary Dwelling by Crump Architects

Featured Project (Gr)ancillary Dwelling is Far From Your Average Granny Flat... An incredible home for a much-loved grandmother allows her to live independently (but close by). It's better than a retirement village!

Avoca Weekender by Architecture Saville Isaacs

Featured Project Home Robust Enough for the Kids With Luxurious Touches For the Adults This laid back holiday home is tough enough to cope with the kids yet luxurious: the perfect escape to create lifetime memories.

Canterbury Studio by McGann Architects

Featured Project 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.

Hidden House by Andrew Child Architecture

Featured Project Hidden House: This Home Gives Little Away From the Street A private, yet light-filled coastal home is the perfect fit for a retired couple, with plenty of room for visitors.

Samurai Duplex by SG2 Design

Featured Project This Duplex is Inspired By a Samurai and Japanese Architecture A samurai's armour inspires the form and materials of this unique townhouse development, bringing a bit of Japan to the suburbs.

Barton House by Julie Firkin Architects

Featured Project Dramatic Timber Ceiling Soars Over This New Addition The dramatic timber ceiling sails over new living spaces and outside, shading the home but retaining the best views.

Brodecky House by Atlas Architects

Featured Project Downsizer Creates New Home in the Backyard of Her Corner Block Having lived in the area for 45 years, this downsizer was reluctant to leave. Instead, she built the perfect home in her backyard!

Box Hill North Townhouse by Inbetween Architecture

Featured Project Are New Townhouses Ruining Your Neighbourhood? Here's One Solution... These townhouses challenge the norm and prove you can develop suburban sites without ignoring the character of the neighbourhood.

Folding Floor House by

Featured Project Neighbourhood Inspiration Helps This New Kid on the Block Fit In Inspired by a nearby converted factory, this home brings its own spin to the saw-tooth roofline and the inspiration doesn't stop there.

Gavin Street Residence by POD (People Oriented Design)

Featured Project How Much House Do You Need? How About the Least House Necessary? This environmentally-considerate home is carefully planned to ensure it's compact yet spacious: the least house necessary.

Tropical Beach House by Renato D'Ettorre Architects

Featured Project Lock and Leave Tropical Hideaway Is a Perfect Escape for This Family This tropical home locks down when it's not being used, but when it's open, it embraces the natural landscape in every direction...

Paddock House by Archterra Architects

Featured Project 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.

Little at Large by Khab Architects

Featured Project This Compact Home Makes the Most of its Dramatic Rural Site Celebrating an incredible rural site, this eco-friendly home opens up to the views, basks in the sun and collects all its own water.

Skyline House by Lachlan Shepherd Architects

Featured Project A Home in a Bushfire-prone Area That Doesn't Feel Like a Bunker The clever design for this challenging site allows the home to deal with the threat of bushfire, while still taking in the views.

Bluebird Duplex by

Featured Project Two New Townhouses for an Adventurous Architectural Photographer A creative design for two new townhouses defies many of the qualities of these types of developments to create bright and breezy homes.

South Melbourne Beach House by Topology Studio

Featured Project 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.

Macmasters Beach House by buck&simple

Featured Project This Modern Beach House Design Celebrates its Spectacular Location A modern beach house design replaces the ageing cottage on a property that has been in the family for over 50 years.

Five Yards House by Archier

Featured Project A New Home Defined and Enlarged By Its Connection to the Garden A relatively modest-sized home feels more spacious and comfortable thanks to its connection to and interaction with five garden spaces.

House for Three Generations by po-co Architecture

Featured Project How to Design a House for Three Generations Under the One Roof Increasingly, multi-generational families are choosing to live together. In this case, how do we design homes which cater for everyone?

29 November 2018

Article Don't Do It! 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...

First Lessons House by Ray Dinh Architecture

Featured Project Getting the Basics Right Helps Architect Nail His First Solo Project The careful siting of this new home helps it take full advantage of the sun and embrace a beautiful, bushy site.

First Lessons House by Ray Dinh Architecture

Blinco Street House by Philip Stejskal Architects

Featured Project 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.

Aireys Ramp House by Irons McDuff Architecture

Featured Project This Beach House Wraps Around Itself to Protect from the Elements Living near the beach has its pros and cons. A great beach house needs to embrace the sunshine while protecting from cold ocean winds.

Aireys Ramp House by Irons McDuff Architecture

New Homes

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