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Renovations and additions to existing houses are the most common architecturally designed homes. The challenge with renovations is to incorporate the style and layout of the existing building with the modern needs of the family. When down well, renovations combine the charm of traditional buildings with the conveniences of modern living.

Here are just a few incredible architecturally designed renovations:

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Split House by FMD Architects

Featured Project Original Home Inspires a Respectful But Radically Different Addition The roof and layout of the original home serve as the inspiration for a new addition, but a modern twist creates perfect family home.

North Bondi House by Josephine Hurley Architecture

Featured Project Location, Location, Location. And, Now, the Other Three Ls... 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...

Paddington House by Supercontext

Featured Project Traces of the Original Are Left to Tell the Story of Paddington Reno The substantial renovation of this terrace transforms the home, but reminders of the past are woven in to create a rich tapestry.

Feng Shui House by Steffen Welsch Architects

Featured Project Feng Shui Helps This Reno Achieve Harmony and Happiness In many ways, Feng Shui aligns with the principles of good design. Here, Feng Shui achieves a light, harmonious and delightful home.

Oye Mi Canto House by CplusC Architectural Workshop

Featured Project The Secret to Ensuring Light and Breezes for this Long Narrow Home... Three distinct pavilions create the breathing room needed for maximum light and breezes on this narrow inner-city block.

Northcote Residence by Melanie Beynon AD

Featured Project A Timber-rich Addition Creates a Warm, Character-filled Home A beautiful new living space wrapping around a courtyard deck plus main bedroom suite creates the perfect home for a family of six.

Pool House by Zen Architects

Featured Project Multi-generational Family Pool Their Resources to Create Perfect Home Pooling for a pool: would you join forces with your parents to create the ultimate inner-city pad complete with a rooftop pool?

Maison de Famille by Sandbox Studio Architecture & Design

Featured Project Why Move When Renovating Means You Can Achieve Everything You Want? The only way was up at this home, but renovating meant this family were able to achieve everything they wanted without having to move.

Puzzle Box by Amrish Maharaj Architect

Featured Project This Home Addition Was More Like Solving a Complex 3D Puzzle With the option of renovating or selling, this family chose to renovate to stay in the area they, but that was easier said than done!

Cooks River House by studioplusthree

Featured Project It's Hard to Believe This Home is Tucked in Sydney's Inner-west. With its lush, wild setting, this home could be worlds away from the city and that's exactly what the owners wanted to achieve.

Garnet Street by Kirsten Johnstone Architecture

Featured Project New Layout of this Inter-war Home Makes it Perfect for Modern Living By rethinking the layout of this home, a more efficient plan that's perfect for modern living was found within the existing footprint.

Oxford Cottage by Bones Studio

Featured Project Queenslander Renovation Transforms One-bedroom into Family Home Stunning Queenslander renovation retains the character of the original home while creating a modern addition for a growing family.

House B by Whispering Smith

Featured Project Amazing What an Average Post-war Brick House Can Become... This post-war brick house has been transformed into a stylish modern home with a thoughtful addition and creative reworking.

Shadow Play by Inbetween Architecture

Featured Project Inspired by the Original Home a New Pergola Improves Outdoor Living This new pergola uses the original home's roofline as inspiration to provide additional shade without blocking light and views.

Über Shed 2 by Jost Architects

Featured Project Far From Your Average Shed, This is an Über Shed... An avid collector needed a place to display and enjoy his assortment of quirky objects. Enter Über Shed 2, a shed/rumpus room/gallery.

Apartment on Ballarat by Circle Studio Architects

Featured Project A Revamp Turns Tired '90s Townhouse Into Bright and Welcoming Home It's hard to believe 1994 was nearly 30 years ago, but this home was sure showing its age. No more thanks to a fun and bright revamp.

Palm House by Kirsten Johnstone Architecture

Featured Project A Series of Courtyards Turn This Dark Victorian Into a Lush Oasis Internal courtyards are the answer to finding natural daylight and preventing overlooking issues in this inner-city renovation.

Brunswick East House by Studio Esteta

Featured Project Get the Ensuite and Kitchen You've Always Wanted Without Extending A more efficient floor plan could unlock the space for an ensuite, open-plan kitchen and plenty of storage without extending...

Daylesford 1863 by Moloney Architects

Featured Project This New Addition Creates a Sunny Courtyard Shared by Old and New Originally a parsonage for the neighbouring church, this historic home has been transformed with a contemporary addition.

McNamara House by Tom Robertson Architects

Featured Project A Timeless New Addition is Quietly Hidden Behind the Original Home This new addition is unquestionably modern, but it has an enduring, timeless quality which makes old and new perfect companions.

Beaumont Apartment by Anna O'Gorman Architect

Featured Project Tired Apartment is Updated to Better Suit Queensland Living Despite facing north-east, this apartment felt small and dark not at all appropriate for the capital of the sunshine state!

Frankston Mid Century Modern by MRTN Architects

Featured Project A Recent Polish Leaves This Mid-century Modern Gem Sparkling With only minor changes over its 50-year life, this mid-century home retained its original charm but desperately needed a little TLC.

LVL/ by PLY Architecture

Featured Project A Modern Pavilion Is the Perfect Complement to This Heritage Home Full of light and opening onto the pool and outdoor area, this modern pavilion is the perfect addition to this heritage home.

Art House and Studio by Zen Architects

Featured Project A Home and Studio Created with Restoration, Re-use and Recycling A renovation to a Victorian-era home and detached studio shines thanks to the three Rs plus local manufacturing and craftsmanship.

Project Elsternwick Extension by

Featured Project Modern Addition Inspired by the Original Mid-century Modern Home The owners of a mid-century home loved the qualities of their home but needed a modern addition to bring it into this century.

The Balcony by Bastian Architecture

Featured Project Taking Advantage of a Corner Location to Reconnect With the Community On the corner of two main thoroughfares, a new room conceived as a large balcony gives this home a way to connect with the community.

Pattern Cottage by Kitty Lee Architecture

Featured Project Fun-filled Addition Transforms One-bedroom Cottage Into a Family Home An injection of pattern and brings plenty of personality to this cottage addition, perfect for a creative young family.

Balston House by

Featured Project Transforming This Single-fronted Edwardian Home for Modern Living While older homes have character baked in, they're not built for modern living. But, you can have the best of both worlds; old and new!

Nat and Gerry's Back Deck by Biscoe Wilson Architects

Featured Project A New Kitchen and Back Deck Become the Hub of This Home A back deck completely transforms the functionality of this home, creating a hub connecting living areas with the backyard.

Second Avenue Alterations and Additions by Philip Stejskal Architects

Featured Project The Challenge of Creating a Home for an Introvert and an Extrovert Creating a home for an introvert and an extrovert means balancing openness with a need for privacy; prospect and refuge.

Atop a Shop by Tsai Design

Featured Project Ever Looked at a Shopfront and Wondered What’s Going on Upstairs? Shop tops in Victorian-era buildings are often dark and often empty these days, talk about a wasted opportunity!

Mount Hawthorn House by RYANarc

Featured Project Hugging the Southern Boundary Creates an Outdoor Room At This Reno... A long, thin addition on the southern boundary allows this home to maximise the amount of natural light and create an outdoor room.

Dearie Residence by OMG Architects

Featured Project Mid-century Modern House Senstively Updated for 21st Century Living An addition to this mid-century gem keeps the essence of the original while ensuring it's fit for family life in this century.

Moor House by Kuzman Architecture

Featured Project By Thinking Creatively, 'More House' Wasn't Necessary at Moor House Oftentimes when you feel like you need 'more house', the answer is actually to rethink the way your existing house functions...

Melrose Terrace by Dan Gayfer Design

Featured Project For This Retired Couple, Downsizing Is Far From a Downgrade Downsizing from a large family home to an inner-city pad, this couple were prepared to compromise on space, but not on function!

Courtyard House by Youssofzay + Hart

Featured Project Leave Some Breathing Room Between the Existing Home and Addition... A thin addition to this home creates new living spaces, but the bonus is a courtyard created by leaving space between existing and new.

Perfect-Imperfect House by Megowan Architectural

Featured Project For These Perfectionists, Renovating Meant Embracing the Imperfect Renovating is a messy art full of compromise but, if you roll with it, the result can be the perfect-imperfect home for your family.

South Yarra House by de.arch

Featured Project A Tight Inner-City Block Required Some Big Ideas for Small Spaces With a block of just 117 square metres, this inner-city reno required some creative thinking to make the most of all available space...

St Kilda Cottage House by Jost Architects

Featured Project This Addition Overcomes the Challenges of a Tricky Tapering Block Making the complex seem effortless in this addition on a tapering block was not easy, but the results are phenomenal.

Coleman Residence by Atlas Architects

Featured Project Good Architecture Has the Potential to Create a Better Lifestyle Architecture isn't about the bells and whistles. It's about creating spaces which help to improve your lifestyle. Like this home!

Tie House by Jos Tan Architects

Featured Project This Modern Addition Is Designed to Tie Into the Original Home A modern addition reorients this home towards the sun as well as complementing and tucking under the roofline of the original home.

Anna's House by Gardiner Architects

Featured Project Transforming a Run-down Weatherboard Into a Bright, Sustainable Home Want a sustainable home, but don't know where to start? An architect can help you create a comfortable, sustainable home...

SON/ by PLY Architecture

Featured Project This Addition Nestles In Comfortably Next to the Existing Bungalow By using similar colours, materials and proportions as the original home without copying it, this addition fits in effortlessly.

Turn House by Rebecca Naughtin Architect

Featured Project A Curve in the Boundary Is Turned Into an Asset at This Playful Home Unusually-shaped boundaries can be a challenge, particularly on sites as tight as this; you've got to turn a challenge into an asset!

South Melbourne Terrace by Eliza Blair Architecture

Featured Project Terrace Sheds Previous Life As Store Without Losing Its Uniqueness Previously a general store, this South Melbourne terrace is now a light-filled family home while retaining its character and quirks.

Open House by MODO Architecture

Featured Project You've Heard of a Home Addition, But What About a Subtraction? Would you be game to renovate and reduce the size of your home? This design proves it's not always more space you need, after all.

MLY/ by PLY Architecture

Featured Project Addition Compressed Into a Tight Backyard Proves What's Possible This space-defying addition proves just because you don't have a lot of space to extend doesn't mean you can't make a big impact.

Sustainable House Marrickville by Day Bukh Architects

Featured Project An Inner City Sustainable Addition Opens Up to the Garden Using passive design techniques, this new living space embraces the outdoors and will be comfortable year-round without relying on AC.

Sandringham Residence by Minett Studio Architecture & Design

Featured Project Architect Transforms a '90s Apricot Brick House Into a Modern Home With dated bricks and dutch-gabled eaves, this home was definitely a child of the '90s, but now it's been given a contemporary twist.