When architects design for themselves, the brief becomes a kind of manifesto. For Sarah Neale and Sam Butler of Loupe Architecture, that masterplan began with a cottage that had already lived several lives. “We were looking for a character cottage with good bones and a sense of history, something that already had a story to […]
Tighty Whitey, the affectionately named home by Maytree Studios, wears its compact, whited-out character with a wink, and behind that modest street front sits a design so clever it has earned a Houses Awards shortlisting, an Australian Institute of Architects commendation, and a place among the Grand Designs House of the Year contenders. Impressive for
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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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The Dulux Colour Forecast 2027 is here, and with it the colour trends set to shape our homes over the year ahead. Every year, the Dulux Colour Forecast arrives as a kind of weather report for the homes we are about to live in, a considered read on where colour is heading and why. The
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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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Behind a limoncello-yellow door in Hawthorne sits one of Brisbane’s best interior design studios, a space as bold and layered as the interiors it produces, and a designer who believes the best rooms come from leaning all the way in. Some spaces announce themselves before you’ve stepped through the door. For Connors & Co., that
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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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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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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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When you build luxury homes for a living, turning that craft on your own family home is a different proposition entirely. There are no clients to manage, no brief to interpret, no compromises to negotiate. Just the unfiltered pursuit of getting every single detail exactly right. For Shane and Kim Boulter of BBH Projects, that
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Not every renovation begins with a blank slate. Some of the most interesting interior projects start with a home that already has good bones, a life already lived in it, and a client who simply knows it’s time for something new. This Ashgrove project by CG Design Studio is exactly that. A 1940s bungalow, partially
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