Renowned for his clever apartment designs, architect Brad Swartz has transformed his own two-bedroom apartment into a light and spacious family home.

A series of high-impact design interventions have transformed this terrace, making use of every millimetre.

A long, skinny, single-storey Edwardian weatherboard disconnected from light and garden has shape-shifted with a 10-fold butterfly roof.

A once dark and disconnected Sydney California bungalow has been turned into a joyous, convivial place with the problem solving of architect, Downie North.

A simple and thoughtful extension to a 1950s weatherboard cottage in Perth is mindful of the surrounding garden.

A sensitive update to a home by seminal modernist architects McGlashan and Everist keeps the spirit of the original design alive.

When a staged alteration and addition became a knock-down rebuild, the homeowners reduced the size of their house – allowing for greater indoor-outdoor connections and landscaped areas.

A sensitive retrofit by PHOOEY Architects retains the best of a 90s house in Malvern and boosts its thermal and acoustic performance.

An Art Deco cottage is given a revamp by Mihaly Slocombe that’s equal parts respectful and risk-taking.

New Zealand’s Spacecraft Architects has served up an ingenious courtyard house for a family on a windswept site where no single metre is wasted.