Queensland Homes

Bicheno on Tasmania’s East Coast was recently named Australia’s number one town to visit in Australian Traveller’s 100 Best Towns list for 2026, also taking out the Best Emerging Town category. And if you’re looking for the perfect base from which to experience it, we’ve found it.

There’s a particular kind of renovation that begins not with ambition but with necessity. A home that isn’t working, a layout that frustrates daily life, a flooding problem that refuses to be ignored. The Hanging Garden House in New Farm is one of those projects, except that what started as a practical problem to solve ended as something far more extraordinary than a fix....

Faux plants and flowers have had a reputation problem. A fair one. For decades, the category was defined by dusty silk leaves, suspiciously vivid plastic, and a general air of trying too hard and not quite getting there. Design-minded people filed them firmly in the never category and moved on. It might be time to look again.

Queensland summers don’t forgiv...

When you build luxury homes for a living, turning that craft on your own family home is a different proposition entirely. There are no clients to manage, no brief to interpret, no compromises to negotiate. Just the unfiltered pursuit of getting every single detail exactly right.

For Shane and Kim Boulter of BBH Projects, that pursuit produced Riverton, thei...

Not every renovation begins with a blank slate. Some of the most interesting interior projects start with a home that already has good bones, a life already lived in it, and a client who simply knows it’s time for something new.

This Ashgrove project by CG Design Studio is exactly that. A 1940s bungalow, partially renovated when its owner first moved in, wa...