Michelle Bailey

Contributor Profile

Michelle Bailey is a Brisbane-based freelance writer and a graduate of architecture from the University of Queensland. She writes regularly for local and national publications about architecture and design including Houses and Artichoke magazines.

Occupation: Writing

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Wondrous curves: Wahroonga House

Projects | An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.

Lessons in scale, proportion and materiality: Albert Villa

Projects | This addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.

Trademark lyricism: Stradbroke House

Projects | Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.

Painterly yet practical: B&B Residence

Projects | This precisely curated extension to a Queensland home responds to the intensity of the sun and evokes a sense of calm.

Ruin in the landscape: Gibbon Street

Projects | Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage in Brisbane has been transformed into an imaginary “ruin”.

Historic four-sight: Paddington Residence

Projects | This addition to a four-room cottage in Brisbane encourages its owners to share in the “magic” of treehouses and cubbies.

Quiet achiever: Auchenflower House

Projects | This alteration and addition to an inter-war Queenslander by Vokes and Peters won the 2017 Australian House of the Year award.

A sophisticated ‘esky’: Tent House

Projects | Extending ideas about climate-responsive architecture, this new home by Sparks Architects is poetic and emotionally charged.

Coastal barn: Glass House Residence

Projects | This cleverly stitched-together, barn-like family home represents the socially conscious ideologies of its designers.

Suburban narratives: Central Avenue

Projects | This house employs traditional architectural motifs in unconventional ways, while responding to its site, street and city.