Category: House Design

Oystercatchers | MCK Architecture & Interiors

From the architect:


For several years a Sydney based family had enjoyed their holidays in a tiny pre-fabricated house on the beachfront lot, but had finally outgrown it. They wanted to improve the accommodation and take better advantage of the opportunities of the location and aspect, while maintaining a relaxed, simple pattern of inhabiting the site.



The design response was to retain the open, exposed and windswept nature of the site, and to allow the envelope of the house to provide privacy, security and protection from the elements, literally the house as a

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Tiny homes are alleviating big problems – architecture and design news

With high property prices throughout the country, Australians are looking for innovative ways to access affordable housing options.

So-called tiny homes have been touted as everything from a lifestyle and environmental revolution to a panacea for social housing issues.

While there’s no universal definition of what constitutes a tiny home, it’s usually regarded as a relocatable dwelling unit with a maximum of 37 square meters of floor area.

Alphaline Tiny Home

Source: Alphaline Tiny Homes

The tiny house movement as an industry is growing slowly in Australia.

While challenging traditional brick and mortar houses, most states in Australia have been embracing the movement

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Rule of three: Why 3 is a magic number according to interior designers

To make an impact with a decorative display, the magic number is definitely three. Grouping three objects is a technique that top interior designers employ frequently to make the items they collect together a feature worth attention.

Why does this odd number have the winning edge over the classical, symmetrical pairing? While this can look fabulous, the power of a group of three is that it’s visually appealing – in other words it’s an eye-catcher.

Read on to see how the best designers employ this strategy to brilliant effect (and why other odd numbers can do a great job, too.)

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This Craftsman-Style Beauty May Just Be Our Dream ‘Forever Home’

When Ashley Lavonne Walker started her own interior design firm in 2021 in Los Angeles, she quickly hooked a dream project: the top-to-bottom redo of a historic home in the city’s Hancock Park neighborhood. After almost a decade working for some of the city’s top designers—including ELLE DECOR A-List talents Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Michael S. Smith, and Reath Design—the Ohio native was more than ready for the challenge. But there was a catch. Her clients, Kaeli Deane and Chris Beals, were living across the country throughout the renovation. “We had to do almost everything over email and Zoom,” Lavonne Walker

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