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A Completely Customised Off-The-Plan Brunswick Studio

See how a stylish custom fit-out has maximised space in this tiny 55 square metre apartment.
Home of the Month

A Fairytale New Family Home In The Byron Hinterland

The French and Moroccan-inspired farmhouse of photographer Jamie and Lisa Green is like stepping into a dream.
Homes

A Fashion Designer’s Stylish + Warm Melbourne Home

The newly renovated home of Emma Cutri is just like fashion label, Sister Studios: cool, dreamy, and a little bit unexpected!
Homes

A 1950s A-Frame Stunner In Northern Sydney

This mid-century A-frame house was originally designed and built in 1959, and continues to impress 65 years later.
Homes

A Loving Restoration Of A Significant, Modernist Melbourne Home

How interior stylist Holly Miskimmin restored this 1962 Melbourne home, designed by modernist architect Charles Duncan, and made it her beloved family home.
Homes

A Shared South Yarra Apartment With An Eclectic, Parisian Feel

How housemates Nicole Williams and Ethan Wairau styled a 1920s South Yarra apartment with a mix of French, Scandi and Japanese influences.
Homes

A Sydney Family Terrace For ‘Minimalists On The Go’

Brie Leon founder Janine Zafra and James Tesoriero live in a renovated Marrickville terrace that's full of surprises.
Homes

An Off-The-Plan Townhouse Turned Dream Home

See how Zach Anthony and Tayla Price styled their off-the-plan townhouse with stylish investment pieces to make it their long-term, dream home.
Homes

Inside A Surprising Reinvention Of A Northcote Heritage Home

A major renovation inspired by a former local quarry has reimagined this heritage home hidden behind its 1890s facade.
Homes

A Stately Victorian Home Revived With Pastel Interiors

Angie Rehak bought a rundown 1890s home in Clifton Hill and brought it back to life through thoughtful updates, colour, and art.
Homes

An Off-The-Plan Studio Apartment With Colour + Character!

How Kelly Cloake made a newly-built Brunswick apartment her own with vintage furniture, art, and plenty of colour.
Homes

Courtney Adamo’s ‘Modern Mid-Century’ Beachfront Holiday Home

The beachside holiday house of Courtney Adamo and her family is the opposite of their Bangalow home, in the best way possible!
Homes

A Surfside Sydney Home Among The Clouds

Creative director Karina Dias Pires shares her Clovelly family home that captures iconic Sydney views.
Homes

A Family Barn House In Bangalow’s Rolling Hills

The Bangalow home of Claudia Martin and family is both instantly familiar, and like nothing you've seen before!
Homes

A Sustainable Makeover Of A 1910s Sydney Home

How Vanessa Pilla and Jo Cooper made their long-term Hurlstone Park home function like a brand new house.
Homes

A Young Family’s Sophisticated Northcote Home

How interior decorator Alyssa Owens made her Northcote terrace a stylish yet highly liveable family home.
Homes

A Retro Revival Of A Mid-Century Melbourne Apartment

A retro revival of a 1940s apartment in Toorak's famously coral-coloured Caringal Flats building.
Homes

A Yarraville Family House That Says ‘The More The Merrier’

A hardworking renovation by Kate Vernon Architects for this ‘busy, active, noisy, inclusive family' !
Homes

A Warm + Minimal Family Home Filled With Sunshine

Penny Basset and Shane Cracknell’s Yarraville home renovated with Kate Vernon Architects is tailor-made for family living.
Homes

A Charming Australian Beach House Made For Year-Round Coastal Living

This cosy, cabin-like renovated Shoreham home champions earthy tones, comfy furnishings and lots of timber, both inside and out.
Homes

A Fashion Designer + Architect’s Fitzroy Family Terrace

The renovated Victorian terrace home of fashion designer Megan Park and architect Anthony Cox.
Homes

Photographer Tom Ross’ Peachy Melbourne Family Apartment

Tom Ross and Emily Shields valued quality over quantity in their 1960s Melbourne family apartment renovation, designed by Architecture Architecture.
Homes

Camelia Farhoodi + Ramsay Hosn’s New York-Style Fitzroy Townhouse

Inside the content creator and photographer's architecturally-designed Melbourne home in a converted heritage building.
Home of the Month

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Multigenerational Dream Family Home

Your first look at the gorgeous new family home of cook, best-selling author, and our very own food columnist — Julia Busuttil Nishimura!
Homes

A Sydney Family’s Mid-Century Rented Home With Colourful Danish Influences

Madeleine and Jake Bulgin have made their dream family home in this 1956 St Ives property.
Home of the Month

A Stylist’s Under-The-Radar 1950s Modernist Family Home

The 1950s family home of stylist Gemma Keil designed by prominent mid-century designer, Douglas Snelling.
Homes

An Architect + Publicist’s Stunning Off-Grid Country Escape

Koos de Keijzer and Clemence Harvey de Keijzer ‘knew nothing’ about country living, but they bought a 100-acre property near Kyneton in 2020 and never looked back!
Homes

The Vine-Covered, Victorian Family Home Of Frank Body Co-Founder, Bree Johnson

The entrepreneur shares her 1880s Victorian family home that hides a calming extension behind the leafy, heritage facade.
Homes

Grace Dlabik’s Modernist + Accessible Family Home

After 20 years of searching Grace Dlabik has found an accessible home suitable for her son, Elijah, who lives with cerebral palsy. See inside the modernist paradise in Donvale, Melbourne.
Home of the Month

A Melbourne Architecture Power Couple’s Magic Family Home

Inside the playful Northcote home of Wowowa Architecture directors Monique and Scott Woodward.
Homes

A Serene Fitzroy North Family Home

How jeweller Jules Vleugel and builder Rhys Vleugel turned a cold Victorian terrace into the Melbourne family home of their dreams.
Home of the Month

Photographer Eve Wilson’s Palette-Perfect Inner City Family Home

Inside The Design Files' photographer Eve Wilson's incredible Melbourne home, designed by Studio Bright.
Homes

A Victorian Coastal Family Home Inspired By A Famous Alpine Village

The Jan Juc family home of artist Ingrid Daniell and designer Clifton Daniell.
Homes

A First Home Buyer’s Refined Brunswick ‘Terrace House’

Izzi McGrath has found her forever home in her beautifully styled, sustainably-designed Brunswick apartment.
Homes

A Quirky Redfern Terrace With A Hidden Green Roof

The unconventional family home of designer Sacha Coles, split over 4 levels!
Homes

An Owner-Designed Renovation Of A 1970s South Yarra Apartment

How designers Lola Digby-Diercks and Sebastian Owen completely transformed their South Yarra apartment in just six months.
Homes

A Lovingly Updated Mid-Century Beaumaris Home

A 1961 mid-century modern house in Melbourne’s bayside area, carefully restored by owners Natashia Ting and Peter Rosser, with Tecture architects.
Homes

A Glamorous Update For An Exemplary Ernest Fooks Mid-Century Home

Modernist architect Ernest Fooks designed some of Melbourne’s outstanding mid-century properties, including the 1960s home of Ilana Moses and family in Caulfield North.
Homes

A Tiny Slice Of Japan Inside A Pink Darlinghurst Terrace

Ceramicist Laura Butler shares her 1890s Darlinghurst pink terrace, renovated by Trias in accordance with Japanese design principles.
Homes

A Melbourne Family’s Ever Changing ‘Light House’

An innovative, sculptural screen invites dynamic shadows into the family home of Andrew Jaques, and Christina Chiodo, renovated by Layan.
Homes

A Sydney Family Home Inspired By Wes Anderson, Art Deco + English Country Gardens

Olli Ella founder Chloe Brookman reveals her newly-renovated South Coogee home, for her family of seven!
Homes

The Sophisticated Sydney Apartment Of Two Furniture Designers

Influences from their lives across the globe come together in the apartment of Koala furniture designers Alexandra Owen and James Whitta.
Homes

A Historic Melbourne Apartment With Artful, Lived-In Interiors

Interior designer Leigh Ellwood invites us inside her 1930s Beverley Hills apartment in South Yarra.
Homes

An Adults Only Terrace, Channelling Mid-Century Party Houses!

A 1960s-inspired party house, complete with velvet upholstery, lush indoor plants, and bold colour.
Homes

An Interior Designer’s Playful Family ‘Art House’

The playfully decorated Toorak home of interior designer and stylist, Zoe Murphy, and family.
Homes

'Cottagecore' Meets Modern Eclecticism In This Charming Renovated Heritage Home

Fiona Bateman's 1893 family home, originally designed by prominent architect Walter Liberty Vernon, in Neutral Bay, NSW.
Homes

A Happy, No-Fuss Beach House On The Mornington Peninsula

A renovated Mornington Peninsula brick beach house that celebrates its sunny backyard.
Homes

Alistair Knox’s Former Studio Turned Family Home

Tilly Barber has converted the former Eltham studio of prolific local architect Alistair Knox into her own family home.
Homes

A Mid-Century Renovation That Masterfully Blends Old And New

An incredible 1960s mid-century home restoration in Ivanhoe East.
Homes

A New Era For Melbourne’s Iconic Featherston House, Designed By Robin Boyd

A sensitive update to one of Melbourne’s most architecturally significant homes.
Homes

Poppy Lissiman + Harrison Kennedy’s Fashionably Rustic Fremantle Home

The Tuscan villa-style, Fremantle home of fashion designer Poppy Lissiman and Harrison Kennedy.
Homes

An Idyllic Family Home On The Mornington Peninsula

Interior designer Billy Innes joined forces with her father to design her family's dreamy coastal home.
Homes

An Artist’s Light + Bright Collingwood Apartment

The vibrant Collingwood apartment of artist and head of brand at Lucy Folk, Ben Mazey!
Homes

A Designer’s 1970s Bells Beach Dream Home!

The incredible Bells Beach home of interior designer Léo Terrando and Jessica Watts.
Homes

The Gorgeous Family Home Of The Design Files' Advertising Manager, Chelsea Hall!

This dreamy renovation in Melbourne's suburbs is the ultimate family home!
Homes

An Architect’s Breathtaking Mid-Century Home On The Great Ocean Road!

This mid-century Lorne home has been sympathetically updated by owner-architect Josh Crosbie, and the results are MAJOR!
Homes

Jenna and Josh Densten’s Dreamy New Family Home

The new family home of serial renovators Jenna and Josh Densten!
Homes

The 'Stuff'-Filled, Off-The-Plan Fitzroy Apartment Of Two Architects!

The personality-filled, off-the-plan Fitzroy apartment of architects Kim Lai and Tom Orton.
Homes

A Sydney Warehouse Apartment With NYC Vibes

The stylish Surry Hills warehouse apartment of Ines English and Caleb Harrower, located in the 1915 Griffiths Building.
Homes

An Owner-Built, Architect-Designed Renovation Of A Charming 1920s Melbourne Home

Lauren Egan and Glenn Hester have spent the last nine years slowly updating their 1920s Preston home.
Homes

A Blissful Art Deco Apartment Up In The Trees

The art deco, East Melbourne apartment of friends Lauren Everett and Frances Normoyle.
Homes

The Ultimate Melbourne Penthouse Of Bruce + Chyka Keebaugh

The maximalist inner city apartment of power couple Bruce + Chyka Keebaugh – co-founders of The Big Group!
Homes

A Creative Family's Eclectic Apartment in Melbourne’s CBD

This creative couple have made a new Melbourne CBD apartment their character-filled family home.
Homes

THIS Is How You Renovate An Architect-Designed, Mid-Century Home

Amelia and Oliver Hesketh and share their sympathetic renovation of their 1969 Upper North Shore home.
Homes

An Art-Filled Melbourne Family Home, With Santorini Vibes!

Artist and interior decorator Phoebe Rolleston shares her relaxed and elegant family home in Glen Iris.
Homes

A European-Style, Beachside Melbourne Apartment!

The beautifully renovated, 1920s, St Kilda apartment of John Wares and Peter Papadopoulos.
Architectural

An Expertly Renovated Edwardian Family Home In Northcote

An Edwardian home in Northcote gets a fresh overhaul by Clare Cousins Architects.
Homes

A Waterfront Home In Sydney That Defines 'Approachable Luxury'

The faithfully extended home of interior designer Linda Habak and family, on Sydney's Lower North Shore.
Homes

Revisiting A Magical Inner City Treehouse

Inside Fleur Glenn's Clifton Hill sanctuary, designed by architect Murray Barker.
Homes

A Landscape Designer’s Serene Bondi Oasis

William and Julia Dangar share their extended post-war home in Bondi, designed by Andrew Burges Architects.
Homes

Life In One Of Melbourne’s Best Mid-Century Homes!

Property stylist Anna Byrnes shares her family's North Warrandyte home.
Homes

An Early ‘80s Home With Good Vibes

Jessica Tremp and Michael Madden share with us their family's late modernist home.
Homes

An Interior Designer's Family Forever Home

Therese Carrodus of Full Of Grace transforms her 1880s South Yarra home from 'daggy' to designer!
Homes

Rammed Earth Meets California Bungalow

Ruth and Raja share their home of unlikely combinations, with beautiful results in Brunswick East.
Homes

Just Don’t Call This Home ‘Eclectic’

The vibrant and vivacious home of Yvonne Shafir in St Kilda East.
Homes

An Incredible Adventure In Renovating An Iconic Piece Of Architectural History

Mary and Marc Parlange take on the challenge of bringing Walter Burley Griffin's Salter House back to life.
Homes

A Cosy Urban Cabin Surrounded By Lush Greenery

The fuss-free North Fitzroy renovation of Cyndi Dawes
Architectural

From Un-rentable To Unbelievable!

An interior stylist and a builder's luxe family home in Bentleigh East.
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