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 • From beach-inspired bed frames to festival-snack side tables, these colourful finds bring joyful destinations home.

MERRICKS FARMHOUSE BY MICHAEL LUMBY WITH NIELSEN JENKINS • A design collaboration across international borders has given birth to “an abstraction of the typical Australian farmhouse”: a cinematic building that thoughtfully responds to its bucolic setting on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

GARDEN TOWER HOUSE BY STUDIO BRIGHT • Private yet permeable, defensive yet decorative, this lively new addition on a constrained Melbourne site both enriches family life and animates the neighbourhood.

NORTH PERTH HOUSE BY SIMON PENDAL ARCHITECT • A celebration of family life infuses this gently refreshed Federation house in North Perth, where a new addition unfolds in a series of dramatic yet intimate gestures to embrace the beauty of domestic life.

Saha • Spurred by the challenges of housing affordability and social and environmental sustainability, this young Sydney practice has been adapting existing housing with composure, sensitivity and restraint.

Do Ho Suh • South Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s artworks employ intricate and meditative processes of making, weaving and stitching to explore how familiar domestic spaces shape memory and identity.

On the surface • From beautiful, durable timber floor boards to brutalist-inspired wallpaper, this selection of wall, floor and paint products adds a finishing touch to the home.

SUNDAY BY ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE • “Better not bigger” was the tenet for the reimagining of this Melbourne home, with a design that subverts the typical terrace plan and prompts a recalibration of what one needs to live well.

172 SPRING STREET BY MARCH STUDIO • A singular house in the sky, this apartment pays tribute to the gilded optimism of the building’s 1970s architecture and its broader urban context, asserting a sophisticated vision of domestic life in the city.

HAWTHORNE SIBLINGS BY REFRESH DESIGN • Two micro-lot houses in Brisbane are the companions to an existing Queenslander in this considered solution to suburban densification, which pairs the best qualities of traditional detached housing with the convenience of inner-city living.

Tom Fereday • Sydney-based industrial designer Tom Fereday continues to add to an award-winning body of work that reflects his focus on aesthetic and functional longevity.

Bellevue Terrace Alterations and Additionsby Philip Stejskal Architecture • Completed in 2013, this diminutive yet delightful addition to a Fremantle cottage launched Philip Stejskal Architecture from “relative obscurity” to the national stage, and continues today as the practice’s quiet ambassador.

CELILO SPRINGS BY WESTERN ARCHITECTURE STUDIO • A challenging site on a natural spring has inspired a deeply personal and intensely local new home custom-built by the occupants, their friends and their family.

BURNLEY BY SONELO ARCHITECTS WITH AMPLE ARCHITECTURE • Devoted to their neighbourhood even after the demolition of their aging house, two inner-city Melburnians chose to rebuild – and their elegantly composed new home is a place for both revelry and repose.

NURRANGI BY POTTER AND WILSON • A move into town from a...