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How An Unconventional Triangular Site Becomes a Sustainable, Playful Family Home
There is a reason most residential blocks are rectangular, so imagine coming across a triangular site that is wedged between a train line and a laneway.
How This Sustainable and Contemporary Extension Was Designed for Pizza Nights
When your architect centres the design of your home renovation around pizza, nothing can go wrong.
How This Minimalist House Uses Muted Tones to Bring Tranquility to the Family
Wanting a calm, private sanctuary, Merrylees Architecture and Interiors incorporated minimalist design principles for the family of four and their dog.
How a Simple Courtyard Brought Light and Garden Into This Small Home Extension
Claire and her family started their journey of extending a Victorian terrace shortly before moving to Denmark; however, time spent in a small apartment showed that they didn't need that much space.
How You Can Design Your Home to be More Sustainable
How do you achieve a sustainable home? Is it the orientation, materials, and all the technology, such as solar panels, or is it simply doing less?
How These Apartments Become Highly Sustainable Through Simplicity
Nightingale Anstey is the latest apartment development in a low-carbon, high-quality residential precinct built around Anstey Station in Brunswick.
How This Biophilic Home Connects with the Treetops Seamlessly
We as humans have an almost instinctual desire for a connection to nature, but sometimes we focus too much on our homes to shelter us from the environment that we forget to connect.
How An Eco-Friendly House Extension Provides This Family With a Calming Sanctuary
Sometimes a small and simple intervention is all that is needed to allow a family to live more comfortably and sustainably.
How This Pre-fab Tiny Home Shows That Less Can Be More
There is a misconception when it comes to housing, that bigger is better, where too often, floor area is favoured over quality.
How DIY Enthusiasts Transformed Their Small Apartment with CNC and Sustainability
David Chapman, an industrial designer, and Jess Grunow, a graphic designer, purchased their two-bedroom apartment in Thornbury, being attracted to the area for its affordability and lifestyle aspects.
How This Architect Designed Their Own Home to be Calming and Minimal
Wedged in around converted warehouses, new apartment buildings and car parks is the home of architect Lisa Breeze, of Lisa Breeze Architect.
How This Narrow Site Turned Into a Spacious Family Home
Situated on a typical Victorian block of land, only 5m wide, was a home that forced Ben and Lauren to cook dinner in a jacket and beanie.
Your 10-Step Guide to a Minimalist Home Interior
Do you find yourself 'liking' and 'loving' the minimalist interiors you come across on Pinterest and Instagram, but not sure where to begin to achieve something similar for your own home?
How This Minimalist Off-Grid Home Uses Steel, Concrete and Glass
Sitting atop a rocky hill in Victoria's High Country is an off-grid family home designed and built to withstand extreme weather conditions.
How This Architect Designed Their Own Cabin to Connect With Nature
Overlooking the D'Entrecasteaux Channel on Bruny Island sits a family holiday home designed to respect the natural environment in which it sits.
How This Minimalist Tiny Home Allows You to Escape to Nature
Drawing inspiration from livestock sheds that scatter farmlands, MGAO designed a tiny home to sit in any landscape and not detract from the picturesque view.
Is Less Really More? The Criticisms of Minimalist Design
Minimalist architecture and interior design receive a lot of criticism, with homes often referred to as hospital rooms, soulless, unhomely, cold, depressing... But is it possible to make minimalism more inviting?
How This Australian Cottage Extension Was Inspired by Japanese Architecture
Inbetween Architecture looked to add a small chapter to a 100-year cottage in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe.
How This Minimalist "Basement" Apartment Captures City Views
Below street level on a busy Potts Point road sits an apartment that is not what you would expect, with a minimalist light-filled interior and views over Sydney's CBD.
How These Nightingale Apartments Build Less to Give More
In 2014, Breathe looked around Melbourne and saw a broken housing system and sought to build a new model that focused on people, not profits.