Statement Piece Homes: Bold Architecture & Design Across Australia
A Statement Piece house picks one big idea and refuses to let it go. A circular house with a disco-ball column up the middle. A Paradise Point home that went gold in every room. Two rooms of dolls, floor to ceiling. Out Of The Ordinary is for the random stuff. These are the homes where someone had a vision and followed it all the way to the back fence. Bold architecture and design from across Australia, whether or not it was a good idea.
For SaleHow Long Can One House Be, Keiraville?
The pool room is so big it needs a sign to the toilets.
SoldFrom Doilies to Sex Panther in Croydon
Twenty years ago this house had doilies. Then something happened to it.
For SaleNo Corners to Hide In: The Minchinbury Round House
The agent wrote 700 words about this house. Not one of them was "round".
For SaleIpswich's Biggest Antique Has a Letterbox
It comes fully furnished. Please do not touch anything. Ever.
For SaleStirling's Lounge Room Is a Par Three
Is it a carpet, or a putting green that went a little too far?
For saleMount Macedon's Castle-Adjacent Party House
Not a castle. Castle adjacent. The stairs on the outside go to the roof.
For SaleWarners Bay Has a Cave and Nobody Will Say Why
IT'S GOT A CAVE.
Not for saleGreenwith's Red Heart Tub Has Seen Things
There's a red heart-shaped spa in the bedroom. No door. No wall.
For saleCharge Admission: Balwyn North's Art Deco Museum
One lawn ornament short of needing a ticket booth.
SoldHolland House: Middle Cove's Glass Menagerie
Some houses have a feature wall. This one skipped walls altogether.
For SaleThree Flights Up And Zero Regrets: Collingwood's Cardio Loft
Photographs like a Berlin gallery. Lives like a fire drill. No lift.
SoldHonestly, Who Hurt You?: Bruce Rock's Pyramid House
Someone built a pyramid in the wheatbelt. Then they built it a garage.
Not currently for saleFlintstones Meets The Jetsons: Newport's Clay House
A grade 2 student drew their dream house. Somebody built it.
Not currently for saleWho Did This?: Paradise Point's Full Gold Treatment
Who did this? We need a name.
SoldAnything But Greige: Faulconbridge's Retro Fever Dream
Takes greige as a personal insult. We lost count of the starburst clocks.
Not for saleThe 24,000-Square-Foot House With Its Own Old West Town Inside It
It has a Western town built inside it. The rest is a formality.
For SaleThe Trouse Of Sarsfield
A retired Frankston line train, now living its best life in the bush.
For SaleThe Theatre Royal, Lithgow
It's been a cinema, a boxing ring and a nightclub. Now it's a listing.
Not currently for saleMoon Base Karalee
You enter through a tunnel. It gets less normal from there.
SoldThe Round Disco House
Somebody built a house for roller skating. Mirror ball included.
For saleThe Long Way Home: Elevated Plains
110 metres long, and the indoor garden needs watering daily. Like it or not.
SoldThe Toilet's Right There: Glebe
Award-winning architecture. No door on the ensuite. None.
For SaleThe Chouse Of Greendale
An 1849 church with a pipe organ in the living room.
SoldAre These Homeowners Doomsday Preppers?
Floodlights, cameras, a battery bank and backup houses. Expecting something?
Not for saleThe Cannon-Ball Estate
An indoor rock pool with a waterfall. And wagon wheel furniture.
For SaleValley Of The Dolls
Two rooms of dolls, floor to ceiling. So many eyes.
SoldWA's Retro Wonder
A matador mural behind the bar. Half an acre of teal-and-gold carpet.
SoldSix Ensuites and a Climbing Wall
Six ensuites, and one bedroom has its own climbing wall.
For saleBaltimore: The Gold Coast's Only Home Casino
There's a casino in this house. A real one.
For SaleThis House Comes With A Bonus Western Town
Normal house out front. A whole Wild West town out back, brothel included.
Not currently for saleSydney's Pink Palace
A Harry Seidler tower, and a tin of pink paint that got loose.
SoldLiving In Freakin' Disney World
A Millennium Falcon cinema and a dragon pizza oven. Inside Disney World.
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