April 2026

When the Brisbane River flooded a beloved 1954 home beyond repair, the question became: what do you do next? In Chelmer, a mid-century home designed by Kenneth Drewe in 1954, holds decades of architectural history. Lovingly renovated by celebrated Brisbane practice Hayes and Scott, it was a property that mattered to its owners, to the

A 10-metre by 40-metre block in Brisbane’s Grange is the kind of site that often invites compromise. Too narrow for grand gestures, too constrained for conventional thinking. Happy Haus, the Brisbane design-build practice that integrates architecture, interiors, and construction under one roof, looked at it and saw something else entirely. The result is Haus Grange,

Some homes announce themselves loudly. Others draw you in with a quieter kind of confidence. This newly completed modern farmhouse in Brisbane’s Bayside belongs firmly to the latter category, a study in Scandinavian minimalism and farmhouse generosity that feels both deeply considered and wonderfully effortless. Completed in March 2025 after a ten-and-a-half-month build, the home

When the builder builds for himself, the result tends to be revealing. There are no client compromises, no budget conversations to moderate around someone else’s priorities. Just the unfiltered expression of everything he knows about how a home should sit in its landscape, and how a material should perform over a lifetime. Aaron Fertjowski of

There’s a question that gets lost surprisingly often in the rush to maximise every square metre of a new home or renovation: will this actually bring joy to the people living in it? For Brisbane architect and interior designer Laura Stevens of Laura Stevens Architecture & Interior Design, that question sits at the centre of