Houses

For the architect, designer, home owner, home builder or anyone simply interested in the best residential design, every issue of Houses tells the story of inspirational homes, their surrounds and the products that complete them. Through generous pictorial coverage from leading photographers, floor plans and lists of selected products, you share the delight of each home presented. You’ll also meet some of the creative people who designed them and keep up with the latest design trends and issues. Be inspired!

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Fresh finds • Add material warmth, delicate texture and expressive personality to your home with this round-up of new design pieces.

THE REDOUTABLE BY VIRGINIA KERRIDGE ARCHITECT • This meticulous adaptation of a Georgian terrace in a tightly protected heritage precinct has seen layers removed, revealed and revived in a fine composition of old and new.

BALMAIN HOUSE BY SAHA • An elegant pavilion addition to a Sydney cottage resolves a sloping site and incites its occupants to find delight in inhabiting the building’s edges.

RIVER HEARTH HOUSE BY ARCKE • Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.

Joshua Duncan Architect • Joshua Duncan's refreshingly simple architecture deploys utilitarian materials and direct construction logic to produce uncomplicated, hard-wearing and flexible homes that inspire informal living.

Here comes the sun • Make the most of your outdoor space with earthy bricks, concrete pools and elegant furniture.

THE OUTDOOR ROOM • Amplifying the opportunities for living outside, this collection of three outdoor rooms celebrates the garden as a place for rest, play and revelry.

TANOA BY VITTINO ASHE • Delicate and inventive accretions to a Perth duplex encourage flexible occupuation and sustain a multigenerational family that seeks both refuge and connection.

MONTY SIBBEL BY NUUD STUDIO • A deft revival of a 1970s project home respects the scale and materiality of the original house, impelled by Sibbel Builders’ underlying ethos of sensitive homes that do more with less.

BUNGALOW BY OTHER ARCHITECTS • A “make-do and mend” approach renews a bungalow in the Southern Highlands, fine-tuning the home to provide greater independence for a family of four.

Mater • Fusing consumer waste and classic design, this Danish brand is using ocean plastic and discarded beer kegs to reimagine celebrated furniture pieces.

Honeydew by Sparks Architects • In the design of their own home on the Sunshine Coast, Dan and Margo Sparks relished the chance to investigate sustainable design and construction. Dan looks back on the lessons they learnt about efficient, small-scale living.

QUARRY BOX BY MCK ARCHITECTS • Changing constraint to opportunity, the design of this new home turns a Sydney site edged with a jagged sandstone face into a private setting well suited to family life.

ARMADALE HOUSE BY NEESON MURCUTT NEILLE • This resourceful alteration forgoes the temptation to build anew, instead recalibrating a Victorian home and its 1990s addition to suit contemporary family life.

THAT OLD CHESTNUT BY FIGR • Taking complex site conditions in its stride, this compact worker’s cottage addition channels the suburb’s industrial character while crafting a surprisingly secluded urban sanctuary.

March Studio • This multidisciplinary studio’s material ingenuity and love for making crystallizes in residential designs that are sometimes subversive, often joyful and always individual.

Beach House, Wye River by Col Bandy • Reminiscent of a treehouse, this private and lightweight beach house – designed in 1992 by Col Bandy –...