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 • Fusing fine craftsmanship with irresistible textures, this collection of objects for the home is anything but ordinary.

DOUBLE NORTH HOUSE BY FURMINGER • Fusing utility and craft, this home adopts and adapts the qualities of the Queenslander, resulting in a tactile and participatory design that facilitates easy living in a subtropical climate.

KIDMAN LANE BY PLUS MINUS DESIGN • On a complex corner site in Sydney’s Paddington, a confident new home is at once rich and economical: a small project that attains big change in its laneway locale.

DRAPED HOUSE BY TRIAS • Resisting a culture of excess, this economical and enlightening home is humble in scale but spirited in its ambitions for the future of suburban housing.

Licht Architecture • The early work of this Tasmanian practice reveals spatial and experiential richness derived from the complementary skills of its directors.

More than skin deep • Add soothing softness, inviting texture and evocative colour to your home with this collection of finishes for floors and walls.

HOUSE LUPE BY LINTEL STUDIO • A once overshadowed and poorly ventilated terrace is joyfully recast, affording its owners much-needed privacy and plentiful opportunities to tune the house to suit different moods and seasons.

ARU HOUSE BY CURIOUS PRACTICE • A quietly radical approach threads delicate new layers into the familiar weatherboard cottage, amplifying perceptions of seasonal change and the specifics of place.

MALVERN HOUSE 02 BY ROB KENNON ARCHITECTS • Elegantly understated, this adaptation to an Edwardian home employs a muted material palette and insightful planning to provide a robust and ordered backdrop to busy family life.

ZIGGY’S VILLAS BY HARLEY GRAHAM ARCHITECTS • Near Byron Bay, where the population is booming, the design of two townhouses inventively responds to the need for infill density and the realities of labour and material shortages.

Piero Lissoni • Even after four decades of masterful interdisciplinary design work, Piero Lissoni assures us that his best is yet to come.

Fairfield Hacienda by MRTN Architects • Antony Martin’s first house flipped the conventions of the suburban home, orienting living spaces to the street. Antony reflects on the lessons learnt from this formative project.

TALLOWWOOD CABIN BY FOUCHÉ ARCHITECTS • Free from excess, this cabin in the Gold Coast hinterland minimizes disruption to the site’s ecology while meeting the stringent conditions of the highest bushfire construction code.

ALBA – CLOVELLY BEACH HOUSE BY STUDIO PLUS THREE • A robust but smooth brick shell, inspired by the sandblasted coastline, envelops this calm and composed beachside home for a family of surfers.

A RENOVATION FOR THREE BY OFFICE MI–JI • Six years after designing a compact residence for one, Office Mi–Ji returned to augment the house to accommodate three more. The result resourcefully and eloquently responds to the changing needs of family life.

Breathe Architecture • From humble beginnings more than 20 years ago, this Melbourne studio has grown into a thriving practice, driven by a restless determination to challenge the status quo and chart a course for sustainable, purposeful...