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An insertion of a modest new room to this home provides a light filled cooking and dining space, complete with a relocatable island on castors

Sited on a ridge which sweeps gently to a pristine native reserve, this design is an exemplar of how to settle a large home into a bush-clad section

On the odd sad day that the surf waves don't rise to the occasion, this seaside home includes purpose built board storage

A large gleaming scullery standing ready for behind the scenes duty is a loose material echo of this front-of-house entertainer's kitchen

Curving vanity unit meets soft cornered mirror – and there's a skylight of similar profile overhead – in this tranquil, light-filled master suite

New materials have meant benchtops can now be super slim, such as this one in a kitchen by designer Annika Rowson. Will you go thick or thin in your new kitchen?

A home that opens its arms to the elements yet has an internal focus that makes it homely in an instant – this is the owners' forever home, created by David Reid Homes

A custom sculptural skylight looks down unblinkingly on the users of this otherwise windowless but now light-filled bathroom

With the heritage home built in the 1920s, bridging the divide between a classic and eye-catchingly new look was always on the cards for this bathroom

One key move can influence a bathroom design and its ambience – here it was locating the vanity basin and mirror in front of the windows

By following the natural contours of the site, the architects maximised the plan, pulled the building down into the site, and stepped the massing to follow the topography

The setting is perfect, the existing in-ground pool nestles into its sandy location – but the pool itself is tired – enter Pool Co for an award-winning make over