The best interiors now begin with the stone. Architects and designers are increasingly letting a single slab’s character set the tone for everything that follows, a vein of marble deciding the kitchen island, a quartzite’s shift in colour setting the mood of a bathroom. The material has stopped being a detail. It has become the […]
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Designed to embrace its challenging hillside setting while blending Australian sensibility with subtle American influences, this new-build family home brings together expert craftsmanship, thoughtful design, considered materials, and a strong connection to place. Every home tells a story, but few begin like this one. One of the owners of Blackpool spent their childhood on this
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There is a particular kind of confidence that comes from starting small on purpose. For Manny and Vanessa Pedro, the design duo behind Quorum Studios, that confidence has become the foundation of everything they build. Founded in 2023, the Brisbane architecture practice has set out to offer clients architects who stay in the picture for
There is no missing this Palm Springs-style home from the street. A facade of linear stacked brickwork, breeze blocks and a crisp parapet roofline announces something a little different for a Queensland display home, and then there is the front door, a custom aluminium statement powder coated in a Barbie-inspired pink. It is playful, confident
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There is a particular kind of house that stops you mid-scroll: the one that looks as though the landscape grew up around it, or perhaps made room for it. Not a home imposed on a view, but one folded into it, shaped by the trees, the slope, the light and the weather of the place
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A character Queenslander home with beautiful bones and a patchwork past, waiting on a leafy Brisbane street for someone to see its potential. For this couple returning to the city, it was exactly what they had been searching for, and renovating it would take a builder with patience, precision and a real love of the
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On fifty acres at Carbrook, Queensland, a warm, mid-century-style family home rises from an open grass paddock, where an equestrian lifestyle and precise, considered craft meet beneath the native gums. This is Ellody Farm, a custom-built property by Adam Smith Homes and the cover home of Queensland Homes’ Spring 2026 issue. The story of Ellody
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Walk into Ceramica Senio in Noosaville, and it’s immediately clear this isn’t a typical tile and stone showroom. There are no towering aisles of stacked samples, no overwhelming walls of product. Instead, materials are grouped the way a stylist might arrange a room: by feeling, by tone, by the story they tell together. That’s precisely
Some homes earn their names. This one, elevated among 250-year-old gum trees in the leafy Brisbane suburb of Bardon, wears the title Treehouse with complete conviction. Completed in 2025, the Bardon Treehouse is a three-level, 390-square-metre home designed by Christopher Gyzemyter and Adria Santaella of CG Design Studio. It draws on three distinct references —
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Walk through any open home and you’ll notice where buyers linger longest: the kitchen and bathroom. They’re the emotional anchors of a home, where daily rituals unfold and design aspirations take shape. They’re also the spaces that, when planned well, pay dividends every single day and, when planned poorly, create friction that quietly compounds over
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Not every Queenslander renovation starts with a blank slate. Sometimes it starts with someone else’s mistakes. ‘Daphne’, completed in 2023 by Brisbane practice Bones Studio, began with a Queenslander that had been significantly compromised by a well-intentioned but damaging 2000s renovation. The earlier works raised the house, enclosed the ground floor, and added two faux
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There’s a particular kind of renovation that begins not with ambition but with necessity. A home that isn’t working, a layout that frustrates daily life, a flooding problem that refuses to be ignored. The Hanging Garden House in New Farm is one of those projects, except that what started as a practical problem to solve
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