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Check out all the top bathrooms in the Trends International Design Awards for Bathrooms for New Zealand and Australia

This contemporary, light bringing ageing-in-place renovation picks up on a curved feature in the original heritage home and runs with it

A tired London Georgian Villa and corresponding Mews House are reinvented celebrate the past and also modern living – the two interiors, divided by garden, share similar yet subtly differing sensibilities

This kitchen is to the side of an expansive, open-plan living space – an American white oak frame underpins the cuboid island's leading surfaces

Almost every room in this coastal home connects with the scenery – this bedroom has glass sliders trained on the living spaces with the blue of the ocean beyond

Indoor-outdoor flow to this large entertaining area provides the opportunity for flexible living with the outdoor fireplace and teppanyaki proving a hit

BT Bamboo Eco Flooring features in this reinvented, now sustainable home which is light on energy use – the bamboo floor provides warmth and texture

This new bathroom in a character cottage bridges the time divide with character tiles, copper shower fittings and concealed niche lighting in the shower zone

You can have it all – stairs to upstairs and long views downstairs – just choose riserless stairs, as seen in this individualistic Manhattan townhouse 

Fisher + Paykel fridge drawers optimise both cold storage and accessibility in this well considered kitchen, part of the designer's own home

Opened up for fun, swimming and sunshine by a modernising renovation at the back, at the front this home retains a demure red brick face

Here, the pool and pool house spaces are in proportion with the sizeable home – just one aspect of marrying a new pool to an 1880s residence