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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 emphasizes the spatial release provided by the living space and the outdoor garden. On a constrained site, the verticality of this volume brings light, air and a sense of spaciousness into the home, without restricting floor space or introducing unnecessary walls. Located in the Netherlands’ hub of technology and design, the family home of a notable fashion designer embraces its mid-century roots.
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Foomann Architects places a surprisingly spacious and airy two-level residence at the rear of a narrow suburban lot. Jost Architects used a blend of washed brick, concrete, and hardwoods to take the midcentury plan to its full potential. The facade facing the slope is radically open with floor-to-ceiling glass sliders, porous walls, and patio with a net for lounging among leafy branches.
While some folks seek to make their homes as large as possible, others are more into the minimalist, tiny living. Over in Australia, we found the "shack in the rocks," a home that's tinier than most and an inspiration to many of us. BAAHOUSE + BAASTUDIO PTY LTD hold Copyright over the designs, drawings, models and documentation produced and published on this website.
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BAASTUDIO’s contemporary designs are centred on building custom homes that enhance our client’s living environment through connection. We assess the site before conceptualising design solutions so the home is orientated for views, slope, airflow, surrounding landscape and privacy. We invite you to explore one of our 39 beautiful showrooms to inspire your unique design. Come in and see our contemporary furniture selection – we update our offerings regularly to keep up with modern styles, and our interior designers are always ready to provide a fresh perspective. If you are planning a new home build and are looking for more design ideas, give Carmel Homes a call. We are one of the leading custom home builders in Melbourne, and we are across all of the latest architectural trends.
Five years of do-it-yourself renovations have created a light-filled haven for this Sydney family. Kirsten Thompson of GlobeWest shares with us, her major renovation that turned her mid-1940s, Melbourne family home into a thoroughly modern haven. A hassle-free building experience gave Kayla and Darius Boyd this dreamy home amongst the leafy streets of Brisbane’s north. Tile Cloud co-founder Drew Mansur worked closely with an architect to transform a dated property in Redfern into a contemporary family home.
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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.
Part services directory, part industry news source, Melbourne Home Design + Living provides an interesting mix of information. Specifically targeted at those who are building in Melbourne and the surrounding coastal areas, this online magazine is primarily designed to help connect homeowners with leading building companies. As such, it features promotional pages for each listed business and showcases their previous projects. We have assembled a variety of furniture styles and design tips in our annual magazine to help motivate you and bring out the interior designer that lies inside all of us.
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.
Calling on the bright colours of postmodern design from the late 1970s and early 1980s, contemporary architecture is visually fun and playful with the injection of pops of colour. Deconstructivism is very much at play behind these characteristics as architects distort shapes and fragment elements of the house to create extra space, interesting aesthetics and functional living. Explore the rooms that define the way we live and how they’ve been designed to maximise the potential for a modern lifestyle.
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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