DIY customized Iceland kitchen

Eco-Friendly Private Noosa Hideaway Project

Peacefully resting among the tall trees, this custom-designed project is a sustainable hideaway with instant appeal.

Nestled on a secluded 10-acre block by a lake, with a stunning coastal national park on its doorstep, the Noosa Hideaway is an impressive, eco-friendly home in every sense. Built as a DIY project, the home is a customized version of our Iceland that has been altered to suit the needs of our clients. Perfectly finished with natural materials and simple, modern styling, the home blends seamlessly with the surrounding natural habitat and lush greenery. Read on to discover the features and design elements that have come together to create this beautiful, sustainable home.

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Eco-friendly 2-Storey Extension Takes Family Home to the Next Level

Love your existing home but need more space? Our eco-friendly, custom-designed addition could be the ideal solution.

While YZY Kit Homes is well-known for delivering stylish and eco-friendly backyard cabins and granny flats, we also supply larger custom homes too. This project showcases a recent build that demonstrated the immense possibilities of our mass timber homes – a stunning, 2-storey addition to an existing home, that has truly taken it to the next level. Seamlessly integrated, the extension looks picture perfect, inside and out.

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living room, Custom Sicilia Panorama 30 in Brisbane

Custom cabin is ideal way to create more space

Need more space but want to avoid the hassles of an extension? Our custom cabins are a fantastic alternative.

When Amy and Mark were looking to extend the space of their Brisbane home to accommodate growing teenagers, they found a customised version of our Sicilia Panorama 30 cabin ticked all the right boxes. With only a tight space available, the flexibility of the design allowed it to be altered to fit, with bi-fold doors opening out to a basketball court, lawns and gardens.

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DIY Sicilia Panorama 30 near pool

DIY Studio Built by Father and Son Proves the ideal Solution to Create More Space

When David wanted to build a poolside studio to extend the space in the family home, our backyard cabins proved ideal.

Set in an elevated position, our cabin looks right at home in the gorgeous tropical setting in Mount Gravatt, Queensland. With a bedroom, ensuite and living area complete with kitchenette, it provides a comfortable and self-sufficient studio retreat for David’s adult son, restoring space and harmony to the family home.

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front of YZY Kit Homes Sicilia Panorama 30

Backyard bliss: Sicilia Panorama 30 in its element

Needing extra space to accommodate young daughter and visiting guests, our clients chose our stylish and sustainable Sicilia Panorama 30 cabin.

Built entirely from a renewable resource in mass timber, our Scandi-inspired designs not only look beautiful, they are also an eco-friendly choice. Add to this the streamlined construction method that allows them to be built in half the time of a conventional build, and it’s no wonder our backyard cabins are becoming the go-to choice for guest accommodation, home offices and studios around Australia.

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Classic Custom Cabin: The Perfect Fit for Luxury Guest Accommodation

Looking to build a guest house or AirBnB cabin with a difference in your backyard? This recently completed project proves our custom backyard cabins are the perfect fit!

When our clients decided to build a cabin for luxury guest accommodation at their home in Sydney, they had two key criteria: the cabin must blend with the heritage architecture of the area, and it needed to fit in a fairly narrow space. In response to the brief, our local builders created a custom backyard cabin that ticked all these boxes and more!

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Custom Madeira 1B outdoor area

Oliver’s Madeira Project: Multi-Generational Living at its Best

For empty nesters looking to downsize our granny flats are a fantastic solution – as it was for Oliver and his mum.

With the daily chores and upkeep of her existing home starting to become difficult to manage, Oliver began looking at alternative living options for his mum. They fell in love with our energy efficient granny flats, and decided to build the one-bedroom Madeira in the backyard of the existing family home.

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Cosy and Comfortable Cabin is the Ideal Solution for Guests

The speed of the build and comfort level inside were key factors for our clients when building their guest house.

When Guy and Christine moved to picturesque Armidale in New South Wales, they fell in love with the location and surrounding landscape. Situated halfway between Brisbane and Sydney, they looked forward to entertaining friends and family who often passed through. However, with a small home they soon decided they needed more space—and our Corsica 30 cabin proved the ideal solution.

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