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 • The designers of these new pieces for the home delight in the craft of making, with products that offer lean and elegant forms, quiet drama or effortless versatility.

CASCADE HOUSE BY JOHN ELLWAY ARCHITECT • In Brisbane’s Paddington, a new addition grafted onto the side of an elevated Queenslander steps down the site, orchestrating new living spaces around an uninterrupted connection to the garden.

ALWAYS BY KENNEDY NOLAN • Perched above the beach on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, this refined new house delivers an immersion in the immediate and sometimes wild coastal setting, offering its owners a calming refuge from city life.

HOOD HOUSE BY MIHALY SLOCOMBE ARCHITECTS • A terrace house that needed ‘serious attention’ has been transformed into a comfortable city home for a retired farming couple, who picked up the renovation where the previous owners left off.

HOOD HOUSE MEET THE OWNERS • Leaving behind a farming life in regional Victoria, empty nesters Glenda and Alistair purchased a Melbourne terrace that came with a planning permit for an extension designed by Mihaly Slocombe Architects. Brett Seakins spoke to them about picking up the project and refining it to suit their own requirements.

Lust for Lifestyle: Modern Adelaide Homes 1950–1965 • This Adelaide exhibition offers a spectacular insight into the emergence and evolution of modernism in South Australia, charting the architects who designed the state's legacy of modern houses, and the well-heeled clients who commissioned them.

Furminger • Builder-turned-architect Chris Furminger’s architectural sensibility is grounded in his knowledge of the making process and a fascination with material experimentation.

Finishing touches • Browse this hand-picked selection of furniture and homewares, from quirky melting mirrors to artisanal lights that cast shard-like reflections.

NOOSA HEADS HOUSE BY VOKES AND PETERS • In Noosa Heads, a tired suburban house is resourcefully remade into a robust but welcoming retreat that emphasizes the simple pleasures of a holiday home by the coast.

PALMETTE BY SUM • Ornate Victorian-era scroll motifs give way to folded planes of Victorian ash in this Carlton home, where the decision to have fewer bedrooms has contributed to a spacious, calm environment for living.

O HOUSE BY MARSTON ARCHITECTS • In beachside Manly, the dual challenges of a sloping site and an unsympathetic connection to the garden are unpicked and thoughtfully resolved in a now-unified home that elevates everyday domesticity.

Dean Norton • Pursuing a minimalist approach underpinned by strong graphic expression, Melbourne designer Dean Norton explores the creative tension between art and design.

Relatively Useful • Displayed at Heide Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition of furniture and objects designed by John Wardle and Simon Lloyd and made by 29 craftspeople explored the “gradients of collaboration” between designer and maker.

Sugar Gum House by Rob Kennon Architects • Tasked with replacing a tumbledown but treasured Otways beach shack where he had spent his own childhood summers, Rob Kennon aspired for an efficient and elemental home that framed the rugged landscape. Twelve years on, Rob reflects on how...