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A gilded mirror above the custom lacquered, dresser-look vanity adds another touch of refinement to this upmarket bathroom

For this bathroom, mirror backlighting provides quality task lighting and includes dimmers, for a soft relaxing feel and double use as a night light

Pool design has come a long way in recent years – and build versatility is a key part of that. Is your site, small, tricky, unusable? Cascade Pools has a solution

Sculleries don't come much more blinged up and storage rich than this – brass cabinetry keylines and handles are matched with a splashback mosaic called Oro (that's gold in Italian)

Just grabbing a bottle from this wine cellar would likely intoxicate the senses – note: when the lines all look parallel you know you've had enough

This award-winning home has not one but two outdoor entertaining spaces. The lower alfresco dining area is underlit to dramatic effect.

The ornate fireplaces in this renovated home looks great while its fuss, mess and labour is circumvented thanks to underfloor hydronic heating

An introduced dividing wall brings opportunity to give this marble-look bathroom open shelf storage, while a large wall mirror doubles the sense of space

Passive heating and cooling are features of this home which is designed to sit well with its neighbours – through sightlines pick up on mature trees 

A beautiful Queenslander home was ill-served by a modern but style-free kitchen – enter a new design in keeping with the home's classic appeal

In harmony with its industrial setting, this one-off kitchen and connected living spaces with relaxed furniture show how bespoke design can beautifully reflect any kind of interior

Floating the vanity in this contemporary master bathroom adds to the room's sense of spaciousness – wood graining meets marble-look veining