Australian Homes

In a mashup of desert midcentury and industrial chic, Mim Design creates a perfectly balanced home for a design-savvy family.

Nature, midcentury design, and a less-is-more mentality informed this family’s residence in Suffolk Park.

In their renovation of a dilapidated midcentury home on the Tweed Coast, DFJ Architects showcases a monumental stone chimney.

Stafford Architecture sculpts the interior of a Darling Point home to provide soaring ceilings and views of Rushcutters Bay.

Architect Rebecca Naughtin carves out a curvaceous kitchen in her foodie clients’ heritage home.

Heritage details cascade into a minimalist composition of glass and blackened timber in this renovation by Studio Prineas.

A new second floor and a striking sawtooth roof transform the agricultural home into something chic and modern.

An affordable two-unit home provides a beautiful solution to the city’s housing shortage.

Secret passageways and surprise design elements abound in this playful home renovation for an active family of five.

Bourne Road Residence’s fresh white palette merges indoor calm with outdoor greenery.

Heritage in the front, modern in the back—this renovation by FMD Architects is a family home with character.

A smart renovation makes room for a creative couple, their two dalmatians, and a carefully curated collection of goods.

Working together with InForm Design, an interior designer and her husband build a comfortable, contemporary home flooded with natural light.

A designer couple convert three shipping containers into a 530-square-foot, solar-powered dwelling on their family’s farm.

Plaster and tile play nicely with brick and steel in this Bondi beach home defined by sharp contrast.

Perched on Melbourne’s bayside beachfront, this family home by Rachcoff Vella Architecture celebrates a robust and raw material palette.

Andrew Child Architect raises the ceiling—and the bar—for a couple’s South Yarra residence and detached guesthouse.

An architect flips the script on her “upside-down” home with a light-filled revamp.

A first-time owner-builder masterfully crafts a home for a family of six in Melbourne, Australia.

Kirsten Johnstone Architecture creates a sustainable home that blends into the landscape with a palette of rammed earth, concrete, and timber.

Sibling Architecture transforms a Federation-style home in Sydney into a sunny space for reading.

With seamless transitions to the outside and a spacious open floor plan, this renovated house gets some airy upgrades.

Surrounded by verdant trees and shrubs, a family home settles gently into its natural environment.

Perched on Mount Martha in Victoria, Three Angle House captures impressive vistas.

The self-sufficient Courtyard House embraces the bush landscape in all directions.

Chenchow Little architects devise a wondrous and efficient home for a family of five in Sydney.

When a family in Queensland, Australia, suffered the loss of a loved one, a tiny home became their ticket to financial freedom.

Jeffrey Bokey-Grant gives his family’s traditional cottage an award-winning remodel that adheres to the original footprint.

Timmins + Whyte carves out a sun-soaked haven in a heritage-listed Melbourne home.

COX Architecture’s Joe Agius reconfigures a terrace house around a verdant courtyard, drawing inspiration from Moroccan riads.