Queensland Homes

The Sunshine Coast hasn’t seen a full-service internationally branded hotel open in more than four decades. Avani Mooloolaba Beach Hotel, which recently opened on the Mooloolaba Esplanade, is that long-awaited arrival, and the interiors are very much worth talking about.

The 180-room, 12-storey property was designed by Queensland interior designer Taryn Raso of Stud...

Walk through any open home and you’ll notice where buyers linger longest: the kitchen and bathroom. They’re the emotional anchors of a home, where daily rituals unfold and design aspirations take shape. They’re also the spaces that, when planned well, pay dividends every single day and, when planned poorly, create friction that quietly compounds over the years.

Not every Queenslander renovation starts with a blank slate. Sometimes it starts with someone else’s mistakes.

‘Daphne’, completed in 2023 by Brisbane practice Bones Studio, began with a Queenslander that had been significantly compromised by a well-intentioned but damaging 2000s renovation. The earlier works raised the house, enclosed the ground floor, and added tw...

Bicheno on Tasmania’s East Coast was recently named Australia’s number one town to visit in Australian Traveller’s 100 Best Towns list for 2026, also taking out the Best Emerging Town category. And if you’re looking for the perfect base from which to experience it, we’ve found it.

There’s a particular kind of renovation that begins not with ambition but with necessity. A home that isn’t working, a layout that frustrates daily life, a flooding problem that refuses to be ignored. The Hanging Garden House in New Farm is one of those projects, except that what started as a practical problem to solve ended as something far more extraordinary than a fix....