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For those looking for a little more luxury, Custom Homes covers the highest end of the market. This publication, featuring a mix of project showcases and design advice, has everything the custom home builder could need. It also has specific sections for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth, allowing you to check out the latest developments locally and across the country. Home Design is not a lifestyle publication, but rather a pre-purchase research tool, packed with guidelines, stylish imagery and ideas. Hailing from the foundations of modernist architecture in the early 20th century, contemporary architecture is similarly designed for modern living.
It also offers practical advice on popular DIY projects and insight into managing renovation activities. We use the architectural principles of light, form, function to design spaces that promote connection with people and the surrounding landscape. We design and specify construction materials that are aesthetic and suited to the Australian climate for comfort all year round.
CONTEMPORARY DESIGNED HOMES & RENOVATIONS
A “hidden treasure” in the 16th arrondissement of Paris becomes a local family’s inner-city sanctum thanks to designer Emmanuelle Simon. Published quarterly, Sanctuary covers everything from fundamental design principles to fittings and furnishings. It also regularly features project showcases, industry updates, and even research findings.
For the latest building and design product updates, applications and industry news. Project 12 Architecture uses a sumptuous palette to craft a rear extension with private and shared spaces for a family of five. A renovation and two-story rear extension by Austin Maynard Architects gives its client a warm, welcoming space to host friends and neighbors in the years to come.
Outdoor Living | Alexander House Outdoor Shower by Alexander & CO
Traditionally, regardless of orientation, the Australian suburban block is longer than it is wide. Typically, dwellings are built to the side boundary setback in order to maximise the floor plate along its length. Nestled in the Upper North Shore of Sydney, this home fuses modernist influences with a signature sense of ease and adaptability.
This renovated Sydney home combines traditional features with refined modern sensibilities, playing with scale and basking in natural light. Flexible work has allowed Sydneysider Millie Cooper and her partner Izzy Walsh to embrace rural living in an elegant homestead a stone’s throw from the sea. Interior inspiration blogger Simone Duckworth shows how a love of decorating, family and even household mishaps can create a home to adore. With the goal of creating a beach house to escape reality, Simone Mathews transformed her farmhouse into the ‘Soul of Gerringong’. Interior designer Kate Cooper’s savvy renovation has reimagined this ’70s Sunshine Beach home as a contemporary Airbnb haven.
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Smart renovation choices and a stellar eye for interior style have transformed this tired, Melbourne home into a crisp, cool oasis. An extensive restoration, alteration and addition to this existing Victorian heritage house has produced a contemporary house for environmentally-aware living. The effect is a balanced composition of positive and negative space; solid and transparent form; strength and lightness; polish and texture. Interior designer Nina Maya’s family holiday house in Avalon, Northern Sydney, is a captivating display of light and materiality. An industrial-building-turned-apartment conveys the essence of a gallery or artist’s studio, designed to encourage ‘wandering’ and interaction. March Studio’s Rodney Eggleston shares insight on designing in large cities, exploring new materials and the impact of art on their practice.
The Casita House in Phoenix, United States stands out thanks to its modern design and attention to detail. It's a beautiful home that's not massive, yet plenty spacious, created by the architects at The Ranch Mine. Over in San Pedro Cajones, in Mexico, this architectural gem is keeping things interesting. The Silkworm Sanctuary is like nothing else you've seen, with the rooms spreading on different levels, the buildings connected by outdoor stairs and pathways. “Design Devotee” Jenni Farr teamed with Spacecrush designer Jane Ledger to turn her family home into a celebration of Scandi-Aussie style.
The living areas open to the north at the rear, and the south-east at the front to catch seasonal sun and beautiful views. Mid-Century Home is an online magazine focused on sharing our passion for mid-century design and architecture. We also cover modernist architecture to show how it influenced mid-century as well as contemporary architecture and design. Covering both indoor and outdoor spaces, we think Home Beautiful is one of the best general home design and décor magazines. It is particularly good for those who love entertaining, as it also features loads of recipes and party planning ideas.
With minimal intervention, she conceived a space that accommodates four to five team members, and has the potential to adapt into a granny flat in the future. Athina House is a modern and minimal, splendid-yet-serene, 3800 SF single-family residence in San Diego, CA’s North County. Showcasing the best of Danish and Scandinavian design, The 3 Days of Design Festival in Copenhagen (June 15-17) was a recent highlight of this year’s calendar. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Fogia maintain a strong connection to their Nordic roots but aren’t afraid to push the needle and explore progressive approaches to furniture design. They tapped local firm Bent Architecture for a plan with first-floor amenities and outdoor areas planted with tranquil gardens.
We invite you to take a look at our showrooms to find the one nearest you, or read our tips and tricks to help get you started. It can also be found in houses displaying the influence of Deconstructivism, in which architects combine disparate and unpredictable forms, lines and colours to create a unique architectural composition. Grand Designs Australia magazine, put out every two months, also features the practical details of each build. This can provide plenty of inspiration for material choices, colour palettes, and even floor plans. There is even information on the architects, designers, and tradespeople involved in each project. Houses, Australia’s leading residential architecture and interiors magazine, presents the homes, surroundings and products that designers and the design-savvy choose for themselves and their clients.
We take a tour of interior designer Sally Rhys-Jones' sophisticated apartment in Sydney. This apartment might be small in size, but it's big on style - and storage solutions thanks to interior designer Petrina Turner. Expanded for a young family, this heritage-listed home has been steered into the 21st century with elegant design choices that remain sensitive to the building’s history. Massive sliding glass doors further contribute to the airy atmosphere of the pavilion home. Instead of building walls to separate one area to the next, the architects utilized objects , lines , and planes to create flexible boundaries.
From modern countryside homes to inner city warehouses and exceptional open houses, we explore creative interior ideas and uncover the beauty of contemporary interior architecture across the world. Available online and as a printed yearbook, Custom Homes is both aspirational and practical. It is the perfect source of inspiration for your own design and provides insight into getting the most from your custom build. It also has a luxury living section, covering everything from the latest in luxury getaways to art and high-end homewares. For us, one of the greatest sources of information and ideas continues to be the humble home building magazine.
The two-level contemporary addition is in tones of charcoal and the open, flowing space is for easy, interconnected living. This fun and well-proportioned house features diagonal protrusions which jut out from the foundation of the house, orientating interior spaces to the local environment and superb views. In different colours and different materials, the projections are eye-catching on their own, and harmonious in unison. Built in the place of an older home on a challenging diagonally-sloped site, Adam Dettrick A rchitects has used clever split-level design to most effectively utilise the property. Disparate volumes split the house into distinct areas – sleeping and living zones – linked by a central hallway.
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