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 • A few of our favourite new things, from outdoor furniture by British designer Tom Dixon to mid-century classics by design icon Clement Meadmore reimagined for modern living.

MESS HALL BY ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE • A versatile space designed for connection and creativity loosens up the order of a Victorian terrace, creating an adaptable home that morphs with the ebb and flow of family life.

BROOME STREET HOUSE BY PHILIP STEJSKAL ARCHITECTURE • Turning constraint into opportunity, the architects for this new house embraced its sloped site and drew on beach house nostalgia to create a robust and unpretentious home.

A HOUSE TO GATHER BY SIBLING ARCHITECTURE • Small but mighty and made for entertaining, this update to a narrow Melbourne terrace is a lively backdrop to the shared joy of time spent together.

A HOUSE TO GATHER MEET THE OWNERS • Homeowners Rob and Alex worked with Sibling Architecture to transform their compact and run-down worker’s cottage in inner-suburban Melbourne into a joyful entertainers’ home. Here, they reflect on their experience of the design-and-build process.

KKAP • The early work of this emerging studio reveals director Kerry Kounnapis’s keen interest in observing and interrogating built history and human behaviour.

Calm and cosy • A considered collection of floor and wall coverings for the home.

CARLTON COTTAGE BY LOVELL BURTON ARCHITECTURE • Calm, ordered and prepared for change, this architects’ home in inner Melbourne supports the unpredictable chaos and joy of family life.

WEST END HOUSE BY ZUZANA AND NICHOLAS • Clever and contained, this adaptation to a Queenslander cottage takes a reductive approach to the build-under, valuing light and spatial richness over number of rooms.

HOUSE AT TAMARAMA BY BILLY MAYNARD ARCHITECTS • Light-touch interventions to a home in beachside Sydney underpin a “better, not bigger” philosophy that values both comfort for the owners and care for the environment.

Studio Tops • The creative studio of artist and maker Simone Tops tests the limits of materials and the processes of making.

Toorak House by MA and Co ( formerly Neometro Architects) • After ten years of working in practice, a commission to design a new house for a downsizing couple gave Karen Alcock an opportunity to test ideas independently, and the impetus to start her own practice.

CORONATION HOUSE BY BRUNSDON STUDIO • Geometric and chromatic play drive this addition to a Perth cottage, acknowledging the home’s past while meeting the varied demands of contemporary domestic space.

NEWLYN HOUSE BY DOWNIE NORTH • A confident and considered approach repairs and revives a Victorian terrace, adding a subtle twist that better orients the house for light, air and garden outlook.

BRYANT STREET RESIDENCE BY FREADMAN WHITE • In this respectful evolution of a Victorian-era residence, an elegant living pavilion engages in a finely choreographed dance between old and new.

DFJ Architects • Community, climate and a willingness to sidestep convention drive the inventive work of this studio, based in northern New South Wales.

Neighbour House by Keith Neighbour • This late 1950s...