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 • Foster harmony and embrace contrast with a curated selection of understated classics and vibrant, off-beat pieces for the home.

EA HOUSE BY BOKEY GRANT • A monolithic dwelling that seemingly grows from a rocky escarpment in the Southern Highlands contains a calming family home that works in concert with place.

A COURTYARD HOUSE BY OFFICE MI–JI • Adventurous and artful, this new home weaves together house and garden to provide varied settings for congregation and independence.

OK HOUSE BY STEPHEN COLLIER ARCHITECT • In a coastal town where houses typically revere the view, this joyful dwelling instead looks inwards and upwards, creating a private haven that unfolds around a courtyard.

Bare Architects • This young studio based in south-west Western Australia is propelled by an ethos of stepping lightly, designing elemental homes that engage with the landscape.

HAKEA HOUSE BY BLIGH GRAHAM ARCHITECTS • An initial commission for a treehouse-like addition to a Brisbane home led to a complete rebuild following a fire, resulting in an unusual design process spurred by repair, change and renewal.

DENJ LANE BY CARTER WILLIAMSON ARCHITECTS • A sprightly Sydney studio turns the often-overlooked laneway into a stage for domestic life, demonstrating how small-scale dwellings can diversify housing stock in the inner suburbs.

BRUCE STREET BY MUIR • Responding sensitively to its streetscape, this house tests the boundaries of play and order to achieve a surprising variety of spatial qualities within a constrained external form.

Dutoit • Fusing heritage with innovation, this Melbourne design studio experiments with materials and processes to produce locally made pieces designed to last.

LA GROTTA BY VOKES AND PETERS • A 15-year-long labour of love, this architect’s home has evolved concurrently with a career dedicated to the sensitive evolution of Queensland houses.

HOME CALLING BY BLAIR SMITH ARCHITECTURE • A Victorian home in Melbourne’s inner suburbs is reimagined with surprise and sensory delight, answering a family’s yearning to return home after years living abroad.

LANEWAY HOUSE BY JASON GIBNEY DESIGN WORKSHOP • Drawing on Japanese architectural principles, this addition in Sydney’s east favours restraint, natural materials and a quiet dialogue between house, garden and street.

Alexander Symes Architect • Fusing a commitment to sustainable design with lessons learnt in construction and engineering, this Sydney studio produces well-crafted houses that benefit people and planet.

Grimwade House by McGlashan and Everist • Grimwade House on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is well-known as a precursor to McGlashan and Everist’s ambitious design for Heide II. But this remarkable residence, designed in 1960–62 by a young David McGlashan for his father-in-law, deserves to be understood on its own terms.

This is Lumeah • A modest brief for a bathroom renovation evolved into a bold and respectful intervention to a house with palpable architectural pedigree.