coastal

January 10, 2024

A bathroom that brings the outside in

Coolatai House by Cera Stribley is a coastal getaway for the owners who grew up in the bush and wanted a bathroom view with an “outdoor feel”.

October 4, 2023

Renewed coastal living at The Bach

Designed by Soul Home and GÜD Studios, ‘The Bach’ is set by the serene Illawarra coastline on the New South Wales South Coast. With a focus on this coastal character, the house has undergone a remarkable metamorphosis.

August 16, 2023

The coastal container home of an interior and set designer is full of theatricality

At home in the beautiful coastal village of Bundeena in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, interior designer Kelly Ross, her partner Jimmy Lister, their son Luka and dogs Billy and Ray (with plans for a grumpy ginger cat to call Cyrus) are shifting the paradigm on coastal living.

July 14, 2023

A future forever home gets pieced together on the Peninsula

A chance meeting led to a fruitful collaboration on this “transition-to-retirement” house in Sorrento, Victoria.

July 10, 2023

Aireys House uses nature as an architectural canvas

Seated amid dense bushland, Aireys House by Nicholas Burns harmoniously blends with the Australian landscape.

September 28, 2022

Creating a home for an Australian mid-century furniture design icon

Both beautiful and bespoke, this home in Mt Martha, Victoria, was created by Adam Markowitz for a special client who understands that design matters – Monica Lee, the daughter of Fred Lowen, of Tessa and Fler Furniture fame.

September 12, 2022

One cannot exist without the other

Davis Architects embraces three distinct architectural touchpoints to create a Northern Rivers sanctuary, where internal and external elements are entirely dependent on one another.

August 15, 2022

Sorrento Beach House proves beige is anything but boring

In layering natural textural materials for this beachside home, Fiona Lynch has created an environment of absolute calm.

July 25, 2022

A reimagined beach house embraces its coastal location

With its distinctive skillion roof, the design of this beach house on NSW’s south coast is inspired by the mid-century vernacular of not only the original building but nearby homes as well.

January 19, 2022

A holiday sanctuary

Corke Design Studio’s beachy getaway brings a distinctly Japanese aesthetic to The Great Ocean Road.

December 13, 2021

Designing La Dolce Vita Through Art

An art collection is deeply personal. Built gradually over time, it lends insights into what the collector finds appealing and the tone of life they want to lead. What better place for Decus Interiors to begin conceptualising Coastal Home than with the client's art?

February 11, 2021

Curvilinear Concrete And Sumptuous Shading

These two town homes by DKO are defined by a sophisticated material palette, rich with texture and tone.