24/08/2026
We’re back with another Read the Room, and this time we couldn’t wait to share these three Australian projects with you.
Different locations, different personalities, but each one has that something, the kind of design that makes you pause, zoom in, and quietly add another thing to the moodboard.
Consider this your latest design rabbit hole.
Temple House has us thinking about the choreography of coming home. The architecture gives art, material and daily rituals equal weight, creating interiors that feel highly composed without becoming precious. Verde Alpi stone, silver travertine, oak and timber form a rich material language, while the artwork punctuates the home with moments of colour and expression. It’s a sophisticated approach to family living, where every material and spatial decision feels deliberate.
Interior Design: GOLDEN
Architecture: J. Kidman Architecture
Interior Decoration: Studio Tali Roth
Builder: Overend Constructions
Photographer: Sean Fennessy
Shoot Styling: Marsha Golemac
Field House is the kind of renovation that makes you reconsider what “old meets new” can actually look like. The 1930s Malvern mansion keeps its architectural soul while making room for contemporary art, custom joinery and a wonderfully tactile material palette. We’re especially into the way the details keep revealing themselves from a custom stone sink tucked into a compact powder room, marble meeting bronzed steel in the ensuite, and a kitchen opened up for family life and entertaining. A heritage home with a distinctly contemporary point of view.
Interiors: cjh____________studio
Build: KABSAV Projects
Joinery: grangejoinery
Photography: Timothy Kaye
Tiling: trowel.co
Pavilion House has us questioning why the holiday feeling should ever end when you get home. Set in Avalon, the renovation leans into a softer kind of luxury the restrained interiors, tactile micro-cement, custom furniture and art, all opening effortlessly towards the garden. What really stayed with us is the attention to ritual: an infrared sauna, steam room, heated pool and outdoor spa bathroom turn ordinary routines into something worth lingering over. It’s coastal living with the volume tur