A Victorian home in Carlton's North transforms to a high-performing family home built around the way its occupants live.

Liliwah Stonehouse is a new one-bedroom home in the Rees Valley, Glenorchy, New Zealand — a compact, high-performance retreat set at the foot of the Richardson Mountains, on four hectares.

We are very proud to announce that Brave New Eco is now a certified B Corp, joining a global community of businesses that have committed to using their business for the power of good.

Brave New Eco was engaged to bring warmth to the space through design and furnishing, as well as increase storage and functionality.

Tucked down a leafy street close to the botanic gardens in South Yarra is ‘Park Towers’, a 1938 art deco apartment designed by renowned inter-war architect Arthur Plaisted.

The reality of the Australian housing market is that over 80% of new homes are designed and built by large volume builders and companies that offer a range of ‘off the shelf’ plans for their customers to choose from and then customise if desired. 

This Brunswick East project was an exercise in how transforming the existing space of a home can radically improve the way its occupants live, work and play.

Brave New Eco transformed a former pie shop transformed in six weeks through adaptive re-use, second-hand materials, and considered colour into a carbon-free workspace.

In 2022 we began the process of working towards B-Corp Certification. This is our first annual impact report outlining the areas in which we are creating and measuring our impact as a business.

When Maggie and Pete bought their West Brunswick home it looked and functioned like two mirror image single fronted Victorian homes squeezed into the house, with two kitchens, two dining rooms, two laundries, two everything!

Lovely Laura ‘the second’, is the second Victorian cottage we have designed a renovation for on this very same Brunswick street.

This project was a dream collaboration where the Architect, Interior Designer, Client and builder all worked together to carve out a form and, together slowly honed each detail to create a whole.

Our clients came to us with renovation concept plans for an extension, looking for some detailed designs and specifications for the interior components. The brief was to create a contemporary space full of high-quality functional details, using sustainable design strategies and converting the home to all electric energy.

West Bend House occupies an extraordinary leafy Westgarth site, meandering down into Merri Creek parklands. At its highest points the home looks out across the green wildlife belt to Rushall station and the city beyond.

'Enduring House' is a grand old double-fronted Edwardian Dame on a large north-facing side of a leafy street in Brunswick West. Her original features included a high-pitched gable roof, lead-lighting, pressed metals and twin pairs of clay chimney pots, typical of the era.