Once home to antique collector Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, ‘Heckfield Place’ has been stunningly re-crafted into a stylish countryside hotel. Spratley & Partners completed the dramatic interior design and architecture transformation into a luxury hotel in 2018. From the clam of the bedrooms to the opulence of the bars at every turn there is...Read More

Located within a suburban neighbourhood, Constance Springs Austin, Texas, this home is designed to take maximum advantage of the escarpment, creek and natural views offered at the rear of the property. Designed by Alterstudio Architecture, the roof defines the precinct for living and creates continuity throughout the property while a delicate custom-glazed window wall, accentuated...Read More

Inspired by architecture with respect for the past, the added structures at Gibbon Street, New Farm – Brisbane, were imagined as a series of relic-like garden walls repurposed to accommodate a living spaces. The philosophy in this concept designed by Cavill Architects is the suspension of time and a wild experience. Beginning at the front,...Read More

There is so much to love about this new house located in the built-up, beach-side suburb of Coogee, NSW, which required clever management of privacy and views. Designed by Madeleine Blanchfield Architects, the house, for a young family, was to be robust, livable and light filled but with a layering of spaces that provided flexibility, separation...Read More

The Stylesmiths Project: Matlock Residence is all about loving colour, featured  in the March 2018 Real Living Magazine. Known as The Matlock House, the clients are a young family that felt their furnishings, surfaces and fixtures were outdated – wanting to create a fresh look with more personality, colour, elegance and style. “We’ve seen white....Read More

When we think of the capital city of Queensland, Australia you might imagine a tropical beach side getaway, but the most traditional standing piece of design are the Queenslanders - a traditional style of wooden stilted house complete with a veranda. In Hamilton, Brisbane is where this tall home is constructed against the landscape by duo Tato...Read More

After 4 years of renovating the 1936 queen anne mount hawthorn federation house with scraping, layering, peeling and piecing together this home, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects & Caroline Di Costa Architects have created something evocative of rich spatial experience that’s both familiar yet not. Located in Perth Australia, both architects preserve and reinterpret the past, layering history that...Read More

The Tower House is an award winning home receiving accolades in 2015 for its impressive extension and renovation aspects – and it’s still now in 2018 a home to admire. The original weatherboard house has been restored to accomodate a growing family in Alphington, Victoria. Along the parklands of the Yarra Valley, the house is...Read More

Perched on an 85 kilometre island of land, this architectural, multi-disciplinary, creation by Paul Wakelam is perfectly misunderstood, the name even suggests so, known as the “Toodyay Shack.” The shack stands and reflects an intriguing personality of vast influences, similar to Wakelam’s career as sculptor, graphic and landscape designer, and admirer of Japanese architecture. Inside is anything...Read More

What was once reminiscent of a tea factory in the 1920s has since been removed, to reinvigorate a new breath of life into this now private residence. Perched up on level six, this 300-square-metre space has become much more, it’s now a true place of comfort. You might recognise the building from the images, the iconic...Read More