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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.

Millie Savage’s Outrageous, Colour-Filled Farmhouse

Check out the farmhouse turned party house of jeweller Millie Savage and Reigner Clothing owner James Noble!

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!

An Artist’s 1970s Log Cabin, Passed Down From Grandma

Artist Adam Lee purchased this 1970s log cabin in the Macedon Ranges from his grandma and made it his heartwarming family home.

A Fashion Designer’s Romantic 1860s Family Farmhouse

FME Apparel owner Maddy Maeve Dawe and Brodie Doyle Jones made a tree change to Castlemaine for this rambling country farmhouse.

A Converted Shed-Turned-Home On A Beloved Family Property

Sahara and Myah Trebilcock love their family house in Red Hill, so they decided to build a converted shed home next to their parents!

A Calming 1980s Fasham Johnson Home In The Hills

Designer Louise Jones shares her delightfully renovated 1980s Fasham Jonhson family home, located in Mount Dandenong.

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!

Home of the Month

Jumbled Founder Pip Brett’s Breathtaking Family Villa in Orange

The savvy style-setter has built her dream family home in country NSW, but it looks straight out of the Mediterranean.

The Idyllic Country Family Home Of The Design Files’ Partnerships Manager, Alice Ziebell!

Alice and Marlon Ziebell moved to South Gippsland during Covid lockdowns, and never looked back. See inside their newly renovated home!

A Vintage Farmhouse On Sydney’s Upper North Shore

It looks like an authentic country farmhouse, but Alexandra Nea Graham’s family home is an almost entirely new-build!

A Handcrafted Hurstbridge Home With History + Heart

The mud brick home of Susie Silverii and Laurence Parisi, designed by Alistair Knox’s right hand man John Pizzey.

This Family Home Is A Slice Of Europe In The Perth Hills

Classical Greek, French and English influences all come together in this dreamy home just outside of Perth.

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.

Poppy Garbin + Scott Gibson Of Pop And Scott’s Dromana Dream Home

The renovated '80s home of Scott Gibson and Poppy Garbin, founders of Pop and Scott.

A Stylist’s Charming Country Home

The Willunga family home of stylist and Read&Hall co-owner Emma Read.

A Restored 1930s Cottage In The Southern Highlands

The gorgeous Southern Highlands home of treechangers James Watts and Tony Chapman.

A Spectacular Northern Rivers Home Built By The Whole Family!

A very special NSW Northern Rivers property spanning four houses, 20 acres, and three generations!

A Local Post Office Transformed Into A Meaningful Family Home

How photographer Alexandrena Parker, and carpenter Michael Riseley, turned a rundown post office into their family home.

A Photographer’s Rustic Country Home (With Its Own Private Bar!)

The charming Macedon Ranges home of photographer Marnie Hawson.

An Early ‘80s Home With Good Vibes

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

A Former Pub Turned Handmade Country Home

A former 1870s pub in Victoria's Hepburn Shire is now a sophisticated, contemporary Victorian home.

Living The Regional Dream In Strzelecki, South Gippsland!

Shelley and Tom Banders share their charming home in regional Victoria.

A Dream Tree Change Home In Daylesford

Jenni and Jennie share their much-loved country home, combining English Cottage charm with Scandinavian light.

A Home That Bridges Past And Present

A sprawling, eclectic home in regional Victoria, with its own mini pub!

Top Ten Most Loved Homes Of 2018

The best-of-the-best, here are our most popular home tours of 2018!

A House With A Heart Of Gold

The hand-crafted home and garden of Luke Mortimer and Steve Burley in Chewton, Victoria.

A Self-Built Weekender Cabin

Lucy and Nathan Hersey's tiny off-the-grid retreat, in regional Victoria.

A Handcrafted Cabin In Gippsland

Interior designer Andrea Moore’s contemporary country cabin.

Top Ten Homes of 2017 · Delatite Station

Signing off our TOP TEN homes of 2017 with the remarkable restoration of one of Mansfield's oldest properties.

Hardwood House

A uniquely contemporary country home, designed by architect Adam Kane for his parents.

Delatite Station

A remarkable restoration and renovation for one of Mansfield's oldest properties, by Templeton Architecture.

Little Hill Farm

Blazing a bumpy trail, Simon Carroll and Kelly Eaton are rejecting industrial scale agriculture in favour of small, personalised farming practices.

Elizabeth Barnett, Blake Byron-Smith and Family

An inspired tree change for artist Elizabeth Barnett and her family.

Miranda Skoczek and Family

A tree change for Melbourne artist Miranda Skoczek.

Interior Design

Natasha Morgan and Family

A look inside the landscape architect's renovated, Gold Rush-era home near Daylesford.

Jess Wootten and Krystina Menegazzo

A simple though idyllic country home in Gordon, about an hour west of Melbourne.

Aldona Kmiec

A much loved fixer upper, in the heart of Ballarat.

Elise Pioch Balzac and Pablo Chappell

Joost and Jennie Bakker and Family

Paula Kilpatrick and Antony Elliott

Tara Pearce and Family

Vanessa Partridge of Prunella

Melly Beilby

Luke Mortimer (+ accommodation giveaway!)

Merricks Home - Crystal Leahy and family

Lisa Madigan

Susan Buret and Faye Sampson