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With all before swept away, this new kitchen creates balance, flow, functionality, and improved entertaining connections – along with plenty of warmth and natural light

This grand home is in tune with its surroundings while the sprawling, open-plan upstairs living embraces the lakeside environment 

Highly sustainable, highly durable and low maintenance, Bamboo X-treme® presents a new, beautiful-look cladding option for people who care about our planet

Okay not if you're familiar with it, but the Gaggenau downdraft ventilation in this kitchen does pop up where you might not expect to see it

Besides its stunning shower tiles, this bathroom features the 'handy' idea of recessed lighting in the cantilevered vanity's niche handles

The owners wanted an affordable good design within a small footprint and sustainable material choices – Box™, The Architect Builder

As if it's not enough that this bathroom's glass walls give it an outdoor feel, the shower also has an outside vibe going on

This pared back cabinet block has motor drive for the drawers and pull-outs leaving only vertical handles for tall cupboards and integrated fridges

The calmness, the colours, the elegant lines – we're not sure how the pool designers connected with the home's Grecian feel, but connect they did

A Staron solid surface island with fluted surfaces and central pop-up holds court in this kitchen while splashback tiles echo the expansive sea outlooks

The fine art of playing up the relevant and downplaying the functional-but-mundane – here, a laundry/ powder/everything room accentuates the positive

Working with a standard plot, this home's interior is defined through organised spaces surrounding a central courtyard that opens to the outdoors via glass walls