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House Design Photos is a HUGE Library Gallery and Directory of Home Design Photos

This Website Features a Massive Display of New House Design Ideas and Amazing Garden Landscape Design Photos.

Split-Level Modern Home Design with Recycled Brick, Vertical Cedar Screening and Zinc Roof Sheeting, Espaliered Trees, Box Hedging and Fine-Leaf. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Split-Level Modern Home Design with Recycled Brick and Spacious Rear Backyard and BBQ Grill

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Modern House Design with Rendered White Walls, Blackbutt Timber Cladding and Bronze Window Frames, Ornamental Grasses, Magnolias and Soft Perennial. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Modern House Design with Rendered White Walls and Shaded Deck, Long Dining Table

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Contemporary Family Home Design with Board-Formed Concrete, Spotted Gum Battens and Matte Black Steel Detailing, Mass-Planted Hedging, Feature Palms and. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Contemporary Family Home Design with Board-Formed Concrete and Wide Front Entry Court, Feature Water

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Tiny Homes The Solution for an Expensive Homes Market? feature article Twenty designs read as evidence rather than inspiration second. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com
Featured article · Tiny Homes

Tiny Homes — The Solution for an Expensive Homes Market?

Twenty designs read as evidence rather than inspiration — second dwellings, skinny infill, common-land villages, stacked micro buildings and laneway houses. Housing costs in most desirable cities have risen faster than incomes for a generation, and small homes are the most frequently proposed answer. This part of the series treats twenty designs as evidence and asks a harder question: which of them actually adds a home to a market that needs one, and which simply moves a small building onto land that was already owned? Backyard second dwellings are the clearest win. They use land that is already serviced, already close to transport and schools, and already inside the city. A well designed granny flat or laneway house adds a genuine dwelling without a metre of new road, and it does so at a scale that individual owners can finance. Where planning rules permit them generously, the supply arrives quickly. Skinny infill and stacked micro buildings do the same job on leftover urban land — corner offcuts, deep rear yards, former service lanes. These sites are difficult, which is why they remain vacant, and they reward designs that go narrow and tall, borrow light from above, and place the private...

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Beach House Designs

Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens and Wide Ocean-View Deck, Outdoor Shower

Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens, Pale Render and Black Framed Glazing, Clipped Hedging, Feature Palms and Pale. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com
Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens, Pale Render and Black Framed Glazing, Clipped Hedging, Feature Palms and Pale Pebble Borders, featuring a Wide Ocean-View Deck, Outdoor Shower and Relaxed Lounge Setting, balanced by Clean Sightlines, Shaded Retreats

Bh 25 is part of our Beach House Designs collection — one of 57 large-format widescreen concept visuals in this section. It is presented here at full size so you can study the layout, the planting, the surfaces and the way light falls across the design before you commit to building anything on your own block.

Classic and modern coastal homes, dune gardens, decks and ocean-front living. Use this concept as a starting point: note the proportions between built form and greenery, where shade and shelter sit, how paths and paved areas move people through the space, and which materials repeat to hold the whole scheme together.

Every visual on this site is a design idea created for Home Design Photos. Browse the rest of the Beach House Designs collection, or open the complete image catalogue to see every home, garden, pool, pergola, furniture, lighting and beach house concept in one place.

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Modern Ocean-Front Home Design with Limewashed Timber, Charcoal Roofing and Glass Balustrades, Frangipani, Agapanthus and Soft Silver Coastal Foliage, featuring. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Modern Ocean-Front Home Design with Limewashed Timber and Plunge Pool, Shaded Cabana and Boardwalk

Modern Ocean-Front Home Design with Limewashed Timber, Charcoal Roofing and Glass Balustrades, Frangipani, Agapanthus and Soft Silver Coastal Foliage, featuring a Plunge Pool, Shaded Cabana and Boardwalk Approach, with Considered Outdoor Zoning and Soft Layered Textures Throughout

Coastal Beach House Design with Shiplap Boarding, Sandy Stone Paving and Woven Cane Detailing, Sea Grasses, Pigface and Low Sculptural. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Coastal Beach House Design with Shiplap Boarding and Sheltered Alfresco Dining Terrace and Sun

Coastal Beach House Design with Shiplap Boarding, Sandy Stone Paving and Woven Cane Detailing, Sea Grasses, Pigface and Low Sculptural Shrubs, featuring a Sheltered Alfresco Dining Terrace and Sun Lounge Zone, complemented by Durable Weatherproof Finishes and Low-Maintenance Detailing

Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens, Off-White Render and Bronze Fittings, Coastal Banksias, Spinifex Grasses and Windswept Dune. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens and Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle

Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens, Off-White Render and Bronze Fittings, Coastal Banksias, Spinifex Grasses and Windswept Dune Planting, featuring a Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle and Evening Deck Lighting, finished with Sculptural Feature Planting and Inviting

Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens, Off-White Render and Bronze Fittings, Coastal Banksias, Spinifex Grasses and Windswept Dune. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens and Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle

Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens, Off-White Render and Bronze Fittings, Coastal Banksias, Spinifex Grasses and Windswept Dune Planting, featuring a Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle and Evening Deck Lighting, finished with Sculptural Feature Planting and Inviting

Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens, Pale Render and Black Framed Glazing, Clipped Hedging, Feature Palms and Pale. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens and Wide Ocean-View Deck, Outdoor Shower

Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens, Pale Render and Black Framed Glazing, Clipped Hedging, Feature Palms and Pale Pebble Borders, featuring a Wide Ocean-View Deck, Outdoor Shower and Relaxed Lounge Setting, balanced by Clean Sightlines, Shaded Retreats

Coastal Beach House Design with Shiplap Boarding, Sandy Stone Paving and Woven Cane Detailing, Sea Grasses, Pigface and Low Sculptural. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Coastal Beach House Design with Shiplap Boarding and Sheltered Alfresco Dining Terrace and Sun

Coastal Beach House Design with Shiplap Boarding, Sandy Stone Paving and Woven Cane Detailing, Sea Grasses, Pigface and Low Sculptural Shrubs, featuring a Sheltered Alfresco Dining Terrace and Sun Lounge Zone, complemented by Durable Weatherproof Finishes and Low-Maintenance Detailing

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Full feature article · Modern Coastal

Modern Beach House Designs and Coastal Gardens

Pale timber terraces, low profile furniture framing the horizon, salt tolerant planting, outdoor showers, plunge pool courtyards and sheltered evening entertaining.

Modern Beach House Designs and Coastal Gardens Modern Coastal home and garden design photo feature. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

The modern coastal house is an exercise in restraint. Where the classic beach cottage decorates, the modern version subtracts until only the view, the light and one or two beautiful materials remain. Long horizontal lines, pale timber, off white render or lime wash, and glass placed so that the horizon lands exactly where the eye rests when you are seated.

Terraces do the work of rooms. A deep pale timber deck on the seaward side, a sheltered courtyard on the other, and a covered dining terrace between them means there is always somewhere comfortable regardless of wind direction. Low profile furniture is essential — anything with a tall back cuts the horizon in half and makes the whole design feel cluttered.

Coastal gardens have to earn their place in salt, sand and wind. The reliable palette is silver and grey green: coastal rosemary, westringia, agave, dune grasses, pigface, olive and hardy succulents, mulched with gravel or coarse sand and edged with hardwood. Group them in drifts rather than dotting them about, and plant a dense windbreak layer on the exposed boundary so the softer species behind it survive.

Modern Coastal design ideas photo from the Modern Beach House Designs and Coastal Gardens feature. this image created by www.homedesign-photos.com

Water appears in two forms. A plunge pool courtyard for the days the surf is too rough, ideally sunk flush with the deck and finished dark so it reflects, and an outdoor shower by the door for the days it is not. The shower is the most used fixture in any beach house and deserves proper detailing: hardwood grate, mixer rather than cold only, hooks, a bench and enough screening to be usable.

Interiors continue the same short material list. Pale engineered or brushed timber floors, plaster walls, linen upholstery, teak and rattan, and one or two large pieces of ocean artwork rather than a gallery of small frames. Storage is planned for the reality of a coastal house — boards, towels, wetsuits, fishing gear, sandy shoes — because a modern interior only stays calm if everything has a place to disappear into.

Evenings are the part most designs forget. Once the sun has gone, the glass turns black and the garden vanishes unless it is lit. Graze light across a render wall, uplight the trunk of the one significant tree, run warm strip light under the deck edge and bench seating, and keep every fitting shielded so the view outward is preserved. Add a fire element in a sheltered corner and the coastal house gains an extra season.

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