Perth Western Australia, Australia

No, it's not a Clive Palmer/Gina Rinehart franken-baby. It's a suburban beach house with a view.

Casa 31_4 Room House is a Coolgardie Safe for living. But it also uses the layering of history to transition a traditional house into a vibrant modern home.

An original modernist home is extended out and up to create more flexible space for the modern family.

North Perth House sets out to prove an affordable yet generous family home can be constructed on a small inner city block.

Floreat Additons modernises a modernist building with colour and light without detracting or destroying the qualities of the original.

Maylands Additions is a highly crafted addition that builds on the materials and detailed richness of the existing heritage-listed house.

A compact weatherboard cottage explodes from the sides of a prefabricated shed to provide space for an illustrator to live and work.

A home for entertainers who also travel a lot. Claremont Residence expands for parties or locks down when the owners are away.

An alteration and addition to the home this couple have lived in for three decades blends in with the surrounding sheds and garages...

A deceptively simple and elegant addition which could be considered a prototype for sustainable, affordable homes.

Within this alteration and addition a ribbon of cabinetry touches every room and brings functionality and cohesion to old and new.

A building at the bottom of this Perth garden contains a music studio and sleeping loft while connecting to semi-outdoor living areas.

In this woman's retirement plan? A desire to downsize and determination to age in graceful style in a city central apartment.

House_B is essentially a C-shape, wrapping around a central courtyard to maximise light and breezes to the home. That gets an A+ from us.

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

A new addition slides under the eaves of this home, complementing the 1950s original, but reflecting the changing needs of Australians.

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

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

Breaking out of the old, brown-brick home, this new glass box for living is surrounded by birdlife and the sounds of insects at dusk.

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.

A home on a corner block maximises light without sacrificing privacy by reorienting to the north and some strategic clerestory windows.

Friends said they were brave to buy their home. But who's laughing now after a breezy makeover transforms this 1970s hot mess.

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?

A long, thin addition on the southern boundary allows this home to maximise the amount of natural light and create an outdoor room.

Creating a home for an introvert and an extrovert means balancing openness with a need for privacy; prospect and refuge.

The difficulty of a cottage renovation is connecting old and new. Fremantle Addition reinterprets the original limestone cottage to connect with restraint.

A versatile multi-functional extension can become completely open to the outdoors, or close down for protection from the elements.

There's not much diversity (or sustainability) in your average project home. With a bit of luck, Erpingham House will change all that.

Orientation is the best way to make your home feel light and bright. So what can you do when your home faces the wrong way?

A breakout area and new master bedroom within a self-contained white box give this Fremantle home more flexibility and room to breathe.

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

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.

How do you extend an old cottage which used to belong to the client's mother? By reinterpreting the original cottage, that's how...

Renovating a heritage house the right way means you can enjoy the benefits of a modern home while respecting the house's history.

A huge periscope is one way to get light into Westbury Crescent Residence without sacrificing privacy. The clever manipulation of light doesn't stop there!

The craftsmanship of the Arts and Crafts period has been skillfully reinterpreted to create a modern extension which feels right at home next to the original home.

With hints of those classic beach houses, but all the modern needs of a family home, living here would feel like an endless holiday.

This post-war brick house has been transformed into a stylish modern home with a thoughtful addition and creative reworking.

A generous north-facing courtyard becomes the best part of this house, bringing light, breezes and the outdoors into every space.

By restoring the original cottage and separating the addition from the original home, The Paperbark sensitively blends old and new...