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20 times more efficient than your home, the haus.me Autonomous Off-the-Grid Smart House makes the most of its window walls on two sides

Clean-lined, modular and highly versatile – the Smile collection of toilets and bidets, from Casa Italiana, offers a chic, sculptural look

Immersive – hard to believe this lush environment is a few minutes' drive from Auckland's Queen Street. The glasshouse provides an area to entertain as well as to grow tropical plants. 

This majestic home has been lovingly restored and renovated, with interiors expanded and reworked for modern living – close attention to design detail and symmetry make it difficult to see where the changes lie

Not an errant fish, but rather a beautiful herringbone patterned tile feature wall that contrasts the bathroom's fluid, freestanding tub 

Don't need the daily hassle that comes with that open roaring fire? There is another way to utilise your redundant fire box to the good

If you can take your eyes off the view, check out the minimalist and elegant Inlite black pendant kitchen lighting solution for this lakeside home

Well, to be clear, a coffee table with an exotic finish – one wild piece among many in this super high rise apartment interior by Drake/Anderson

Have a spectacular view that you don’t want to obscure? Choose low-lying furniture such as the Minotti Leslie low lounge chair in this penthouse interior

Whilst the garage is constructed of industrial concrete block work, the remainder of this home has light weight framing – allowing for an open plan ground floor free of ...

Two wings on different axes comprise this home – together providing wind shelter, capturing the sun and creating fluid indoor-outdoor living

A bold, black, faceted island echoes the home's cladding, with kitchen and bar functionality tucked behind closed doors