B&B owners Art van Dyke and Troy West build a three-level, one-bedroom, contemporary home bookended by an 1850s stone cottage, near Harcourt in Victoria, on land that comes with its own granite quarry.

While in the inner city suburb of East Melbourne in Victoria, a very small block is set to make way for a three story totally green home with geo-thermal heating and cooling and a rooftop garden and spa. Photographer Ralph Alfonso has a very strong sense of how precious our environment is and how little space we really need to live in. His downsized style of living focuses on being as frugal as possible, using a ground-breaking and innovative environmental design. The thing is… the house footprint measures just 5 x 4 metres, making it grand in design, although miniature in size.