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Modern Coastal renovation in Sapphire Beach using Hardie Fine Texture Cladding.

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A well-planned deck
Turning your traditional patio or verandah into an exciting entertainment space is the perfect way to extend your indoor living space into the outdoors. You’ll want to ensure any materials you use are hard-wearing to stand up against repeated use and the elements (from heavy rain to harsh sunshine), and the renovation itself shouldn’t break the bank. Choosing a product like HardieDeck™ means you get all the elegance of a sleek and sturdy deck without the drawbacks of traditional timber. Made from James Hardie’s™ premium fibre cement, the HardieDeck is a stylish addition to any outdoor space. It works just as well for your exterior dining area as it does around the edges of your pool. Outdoor kitchen for entertaining There’s nothing quite like firing up the barbie and inviting friends and family over for a meal out in the sunshine. A kitchen outside is a great way to use your outdoor space, but you need to ensure the materials around it will be able to withstand the hot summer days and rainy weather, and won’t get stained from spills and dropped food. Linea Weatherboard is the ideal choice for an outdoor kitchen – not only is it modern, durable and easy to install, but it’s resistant to shrinking, swelling and cracking. One last thing to remember for any outdoor kitchen: if you plan to install a barbecue on your deck, make sure the flooring is heat resistant and strong enough to support the extra weight of large appliances.

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Beautifully Articulated Finish

In striking juxtaposition to a large and sculptural oak tree, Ellul Architecture’s simple black pavilion is home to a young family within the suburban landscape of Bayside, Melbourne.
With its restrained detailing and careful material selection, architect Ben Ellul has designed for maximum internal volume, creating space for a young family to grow. <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> is an aesthetic driver, its grooved panels providing strength and scale, and a cost-effective cladding solution.
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<h2 id="acompactplanwithbigambitions">A compact plan with big ambitions</h2>
A series of courtyards are carved out of a simple pavilion form, resulting in a 230sqm sanctuary that has earned the home a place on the Houses Awards 2022 shortlist. A central courtyard is bookended by a multi-purpose family room and a living space. “When the weather's good, the owners can open up the courtyard doors to create a third space that connects the house,” says Ben. "It keeps the plan compact so we could spend money on full-height glazing and increased ceiling height, adding long-term value to the home.”
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A central, double-height hallway links these spaces while also allowing light to penetrate deep into the floorplate through a series of highlight windows. This higher, central volume is lined in <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/easylap-panel">EasyLap™ Panel</a> by James Hardie, a different finish to contrast with the primary Axon Cladding. Both are painted Dulux Black in a matt finish. Below this raised ceiling are doorways into bedrooms, bathrooms and a study, all concealed in a green feature wall of timber panelling. 
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<h2 id="thelookoftimberwithoutthehighmaintenance">The look of timber without the high maintenance</h2>
The low profile of the home sits comfortably behind a prominent oak tree, ensuring it has a modest relationship to the street. To achieve the look, Ben researched the various black cladding options. 
“The fibre cement Axon Cladding is light on labour to install, it’s virtually bulletproof, easy to maintain, handles hits from kids playing, and is long lasting,” says Ben. “Fibre cement also works really well in our climate and, when used well, is really beautiful. A panel product has enabled significant budget savings for the build and also ongoing maintenance, compared with a product like cedar.” 
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Clean vertical lines meet seamlessly at the edges to amplify the beauty of the home’s simple architectural form. “We needed to get the edge details right – the windows, corners and parapets, while meeting the budget goals and ensuring the construction sequencing was spot on,” Ben adds. “The plan was adjusted to suit panel sizes, so the builder could install the bulk of the panels and then come back and deal with the critical corner and window details later on. They installed the cladding over a few days.” 
<h2 id="claddingprototypeshelpspeedupdelivery">Cladding prototypes help speed up delivery</h2>
The builder made prototypes of the cladding, including the corner junction detail, and built a jig to lift the 3.6m panels up in one piece. Jayson Davidson, director at Jada Homes, explains: “The jig wound the panels up to the exact height to hold each one in place, while we screwed them to the metal battens, then used the James Hardie thermal strip to create a thermal break.”
Aluminium details on the corners provide a sharp, neat finish. “It took a bit longer to get right, but gave us an amazing finished result,” explains Jayson. “We used a 10mm aluminium Y-shaped section and mitred the Axon Cladding edges – the cladding meeting at the Y section, which was then painted black.” Ben set the parapet heights to accommodate full sheets of cladding, ensuring the form maintains its purity and simplicity, with a black flashing to complete the top edge.
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Using Axon Cladding architecturally, Ellul Architecture has created an enigmatic design, which opens up to reveal an active and generous courtyard home within which this family can enjoy and grow.
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Sandringham House designed by Ellul Architecture with Axon Cladding by James Hardie to deliver a box modern home.

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Ellul Architecture has used Axon™ Cladding to create a pavilion home for a young family within the suburban landscape of Bayside, Melbourne.

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Bold design and a welcoming facade helps AK Building Design win the award 

For a nation that hugs the coast like it doesn't want to let go, owning a beachfront home is part of the Australian dream. A glimpse of crystal clear water out of the windows is the pinnacle of relaxed, coastal living. However, the design challenge is making a beachfront home look modern, through the use of cutting-edge materials and clever design to highlight those ocean views. 
It was using the right materials to achieve the customer brief of a stunning ocean view that won <a href="https://akbuildingdesign.com.au/">AK Building Design</a> the title of Best Use of James Hardie Products at the 2021 Building Design Queensland Awards.
The BDQ awards bring together the best building designers in the sunshine state, to showcase their innovative thinking. The <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">Box Modern-style</a> Rainbow Residence was a clear favourite for its integration of products by James Hardie on the facade, helping the contemporary, sleek property achieve its elevation, form and bold design. 
The wow-factor of the home was dialed up with an expansive oceanfront view, with the height of the home stepped-out over a number of levels. Its clean angles and neutral tones helped it stand out as a modern version of resort-style living. 
The external facade achieves its bold vertical lines with the use of <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> by James Hardie. This cladding also highlights the stand-out features of the Rainbow Residence - including a large cantilever at the rear of the home, clad in the lightweight material. The use of this cladding keeps the facade uncluttered and minimal, adding to its welcoming street appeal while not overcomplicating the space. 
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<h2 id="ahomeamongthepalmtrees">A home among the palm trees</h2>
The idyllic town of Rainbow Beach in Queensland embodies the best of Australian oceanfront culture - a relaxed community, with an emphasis on making the best of the great outdoors. When <a href="https://akbuildingdesign.com.au/">AK Building Design</a> received the brief for the home, they say that the owners wanted a modern beachfront home that would not be too imposing in the peaceful street, while still incorporating unique design features including a boxy look somewhere. The idea was that the home would interact with its surroundings - as well as having a killer, unobstructed view of the ocean. 
The rear of the residence was designed to be the ultimate ‘wow’ location and this is where the boxy look took stage. The end product was a perfect example of the <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">Box Modern</a> home: hidden, flat roof lines, different ‘boxes’ in suitable scale, arranged across levels and cladding surrounding the stand-out features. 
Using <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> on the exterior of the home meant that the team could bring this vision to life. <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">Box Modern</a> homes rely on the cladding to play the most important role, in helping to distinguish each separate box shape. The clean, vertical cladding lines meant that the form of the home could be clearly defined, keeping in with the style. 
For the Rainbow Residence, this was especially relevant at the rear of the home, which had two large boxes protruding out over the alfresco area. The outdoors area was designed as a reflection of the coastal lifestyle: with large decking and a glittering pool to escape the heat of the day - shaded by the cleverly-designed upstairs boxes. The dark grey <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> on both of these rear boxes helped to differentiate them from the white body of the home, making them stand out as key design features.
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<h2 id="achallengingyetrewardingoutlook">A challenging - yet rewarding - outlook</h2>
To deliver on the brief for ocean views, <a href="https://akbuildingdesign.com.au/">AK Building Design</a> took drone footage to assist with sight lines above the foredune vegetation. As there were unique views at differing locations and heights on the site, the team designed an easy climb between the purposely positioned levels to the cleverly created observation deck at the max build height. The observation level, complete with entertaining facilities, took full potential of the location and guaranteed the owners of the best view possible - including structural provisions for future change if desired.
To build something this high and this close to the beach it was crucial that the materials used were fit for purpose. Using <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> as the home’s external cladding meant that they could deliver on the brief, as the cladding is not prone to rotting or warping and will never rust when installed correctly. The cladding also surrounds the stand-out cantilevers, which the team employed to simplify the ‘floating’ levels at the rear of the home. This ‘floating’ look was achieved with careful construction by the team at <a href="https://nickhayesconstructions.com.au/">Nick Hayes Constructions</a>, who brought the design to life. The master bedroom floats out over the alfresco area, helping to shade the space from the heat of day, as well as providing an incredible view.
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<h2 id="streetappealthatstandsuptotheelements">Street appeal that stands up to the elements</h2>
Blending into the quiet town while retaining street appeal was also important to the owners of the Rainbow Residence. That’s why the building design team took an understated approach to the facade, reserving the wow factor for the rear. 
The facade - and the home as a whole - still needed to handle whatever the oceanfront location could throw at it. That’s why the fibre cement composition of <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> was so important to the overall strength of the home. James Hardie’s fibre cement is durable, as well as being resistant to fire, termites and damage from moisture - important when you’re close to the ocean or a body of water. 
Fibre cement can also help in the harsh, tropical Queensland summers. Heavier materials - such as brick - have a high thermal mass, meaning that they can hold on to the external temperatures for longer. Fibre cement cladding can instead help regulate temperature more effectively inside the home. When the cladding is coupled with effective insulation, it can help to protect the home from the elements, while ensuring that the indoor areas are not affected by the weather outside.
Through using <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> to transform the idea of a beachfront home into a modern residence that uses cutting-edge design, it was clear that <a href="https://akbuildingdesign.com.au/">AK Building Design</a> had truly nailed the brief, in every way. 
Photographer: Lucas Muro (@lucasmurophotographer)
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Discover the right use of building materials to achieve the brief of an ocean view and reasons to win the title of Best Use of James Hardie timber cladding products.

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Bring your dream facade to life with James Hardie and Style Sourcebook

The façade of a home is often overlooked, however, it’s one of the most important elements for creating instant street appeal. Visualising and creating a design for your façade is just as important as designing your interior, and the two should complement each other to marry the exterior and interior spaces. The key to a well-designed home is knowing the style you like and the elements that achieve the look. For most people, it’s a challenge on where to begin!
Collating a mood board can help define and refine your vision for your home exterior. Mood boards should include images that showcase colours you like and textures and materials you want to use. Take into consideration each aspect of your façade including exterior walls, roof, front door, fence and accompanying furniture.
James Hardie has recently partnered with <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/">Style Sourcebook</a>, a sophisticated mood board tool to connect renovators and new home builders to endless design possibilities, and has invited key design influencers to create mood boards with a focus on Modern Looks. Here you’ll see inspiring interpretations of modern design and how you can mix and match materials to create your own unique style.
<h2 id="boxmodern">Box Modern</h2>
This look emphasises the arrangement of different shaped boxes to create a contemporary home. “The box shape is a modern design element used in architecture to create clean lines and strip back design to its purest form,” says Maria Cerne, Interior Designer at <a href="https://www.studioblack.com.au/">Studio Black Interiors</a>.
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<a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">Box Modern</a> mood board designed by <a href="https://www.studioblack.com.au/">Studio Black Interiors</a>. 
The key elements in creating a <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">box modern</a> facade are to use the clean lines of vertical, horizontal, or even panel cladding to distinguish each box shape. James Hardie products, <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> and <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a> are ideal in this application. Paired with a palette of dark and light colours in tones of black, white and grey, creates a home that has a sophisticated and high-end feel.
<h2 id="midcenturymodern">Mid Century Modern</h2>
Taking inspiration from the 1930s to the 1970s, a main principle of this look is ‘form follows function’, meaning the purpose often comes before the design. 
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<a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/mid-century-modern">Mid-Century Modern</a> mood board by <a href="https://www.oleanderandfinch.com/">Oleander and Finch</a>.
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 “There are a few sure ways to achieve a mid-century façade. Try a pop of bold colour on the front door and sticking to clean lines and geometric shapes just as you would with mid-century interiors. The earthy hues, <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ Weatherboards</a>, timbers, stone and texture cladding used in this colour palette reflect the handcrafted organic nature of <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/mid-century-modern">Mid-Century Modern</a> design. Landscaping should be minimal. Think plants indigenous to your area, and a focus on marrying the interior with the exterior,” says <a href="https://www.oleanderandfinch.com/">Oleander and Finch, Interior Designer</a>.
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<h2 id="mixedcladding">Mixed Cladding</h2>
This look is all about mixing, matching and layering different materials and styles of cladding to create an interesting and unique look with design variation. 
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 “To achieve a coastal luxe <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/mixed-cladding">mixed cladding</a> look, I recommend using a blend of <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ Weatherboards</a>, <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/scyon-matrix-cladding">Matrix™ Cladding</a> and <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> by James Hardie in whisper white. The softness of whisper white, offset by texture of stone and timber, plus a feature doorway complements James Hardie’s range and completes the final look,” says Ashley Madison, Creative Founder of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/am_interiordesign_studio/">AM Interior Studio</a>.
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<a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/mixed-cladding">Mixed Cladding</a> mood board by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/am_interiordesign_studio/">AM Interior Studio</a>.
Mixing <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ Weatherboards</a> with its deep shadow lines with a vertical joint cladding such as <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/scyon-matrix-cladding">Matrix Cladding™</a>, <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a> or <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> will provide instant street appeal. To create a contemporary aesthetic, carefully place windows at the same height, and to complete your modern look, choose a monochrome colour palette but finish the last 10% of your colour palette with timber tones or an unexpected pop of colour.
<h2 id="moderncoastal">Modern Coastal</h2>
Reflective of Australia’s beach shack history, the <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/modern-coastal">Modern Coastal</a> look is a combination of crisp white weatherboards and contemporary clean lines with a luxury outdoor living vibe.
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 “When creating a <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/modern-coastal">Modern Coastal</a> façade, start with the main exterior element – weatherboards as it covers the entirety of the home. It is important to mix textures such as weatherboards with timber, bricks, natural stone and tiles,” says Court + Riss, Co-Founders of <a href="https://www.boneandblanc.com.au/">Bone+Blanc Interior Design Studio</a>.
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<a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/modern-coastal">Modern Coastal</a> mood board by <a href="https://www.boneandblanc.com.au/">Bone+Blanc Interior Design Studio</a>
Key elements to create the <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/modern-coastal">Modern Coastal</a> look include crisp white <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ Weatherboards</a>, <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria™ Cladding</a> and <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axent-trim">Axent™ Trim</a> by James Hardie, a roof style that provides a simple designer look (flat, gable or skillion) and large, impressive windows placed carefully in the façade. Embrace the relaxed coastal styling with wide stacking doors, deck chairs, outdoor umbrellas, neutral and natural textures and lots of outdoor plants.
<h2 id="scandibarn">Scandi Barn</h2>
The popularity of modern farmhouses and barn-style homes in Australia have increased. The <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/scandi-barn">Scandi Barn</a> look encourages simplicity, minimalism with a touch of Scandinavian influence. 
The <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/scandi-barn">Scandi Barn</a> look is characterised by its steeply pitched gable roof of 35 to 45 degrees, with corrugated steel sheets preferred over tiles as the material of choice. <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> and <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ Weatherboard</a> by James Hardie provide the perfect façade, and in choosing a bold colour palette, you can bring your dream home to life. Interiors showcase the pure barn shape with vaulted ceilings with its open floor plan with skylights, light timber floors and the use of neutral and natural materials.
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<a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/scandi-barn">Scandi Barn</a> mood board by <a href="http://www.thestables.com.au/">The Stables.</a>
To get creative, start your mood board and bring your design vision to life, visit <a href="https://www.stylesourcebook.com.au">Style Sourcebook here</a>.

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Bringing light and space to a 1920s Sydney Terrace House with a contemporary renovation

Finding sunlight, opening up to views of nature and creating a form that connects and belongs to its surroundings define this smart and now spacious 1920s Sydney Terrace House transformation. When Sydney architect Dean Williams of local firm <a href="https://www.architect-george.com/">Architect George</a> first visited the site, he deemed the historic terrace ripe for renovation. “It’s rare to find a small terrace house that still has good access to sun and a north-facing courtyard,” Deans says. “This project was all about unlocking that potential and embracing the opportunities to find sunlight and space.” 
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The original house suffered from poor natural light levels, weak garden connections and a simple lack of space. Sleeping quarters were limited to a ladder-accessible attic and the single bathroom blocked physical and visual connections to the sunlit courtyard. These shortcomings were addressed by a few smart planning moves. The relocation of the bathroom, to a compact triangular wedge on the opposite side of the plan, established direct sight-lines to the garden from the ground floor. While upstairs, two new bedrooms and a bathroom doubled the floor area and preserves the views of the original roof from the street. 
“We knew the extension needed to be quiet and subtle in its expression,” Dean says. “Most of the materials were painted white to bring focus to the textural quality of the finishes rather than bombarding the surrounds with more colour and visual chaos.” <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> by James Hardie was selected to bring a sense of scale to the exterior and introduce a subtle vertical rhythm. Painted white, it contributes to the unified expression of the whole. “The profile of the cladding strengthens the vertical forms that were expressed in the juliet balcony and tall window at the rear,” Dean says. “Which visually ties these elements together.” 
The rear of the terrace house capitalises on a north-eastern aspect which is the most desirable orientation for capturing year-round sunshine. New courtyard landscaping visually connects the nearby community garden to draw nature in. “To make a really small house successful it needs to feel generous in its connection to the outdoors,” Dean says. “The framed openings of the extension were all about making the house feel more generous, particularly the juliet balcony which makes the whole main bedroom feel like it’s part of the outdoors.” 
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Beside the juliet balcony, a tall window provides access to a green roof, sheltering the new bathroom below. “From the bedroom you can go out and grab some herbs and from the bed you get a soft green outlook,” Dean explains. “It also promotes good ventilation, you can crack it open a little bit or all the way.” What is clever about this secret door to the herb garden is, when closed, it appears seamless with the facade. “The width of the door is derived from the width of the <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> so the two line up,” Dean says. “The gap around the door is not bigger than the shadow lines of the cladding, so when the door is closed it visually disappears.” 
Other clever design details contribute to the terrace’s space-savvy transformation. “There were a few tricks to achieving that, like making internal doorways narrower than standard sizes,” Dean explains. “We tested different sized doorways to see how small they could be and what suited the small scale of the house.” Improved light levels and direct view lines to nature also extend the sense of space beyond the boundary of the interior. “The fact that the courtyard is now connected to the house means that the living areas feel like they have doubled in size because that whole space has been visually claimed,” Dean says. “It also means there is much more room to entertain friends.” 
Beyond influencing the visual and spatial outcome of the project there were many practical reasons for choosing <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a>. “To preserve the structural integrity of the terrace, the upstairs extension needed a light-weight cladding solution, good acoustic properties and fire-rated walls,” Dean says. “These needs could all be satisfied with <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a>.” The ease with which the <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> panels could be manoeuvred and fixed in place by just two construction workers also contributed to the highly functional solution achieved in this elegant 1920s Sydney Terrace House transformation. 
Images by <a href="https://www.clinton-weaver.com/">Clinton Weaver</a> 
Words by <a href="http://michellebailey.com.au/">Michelle Bailey</a> 
Got a Terrace House that’s in need of a contemporary renovation? See how <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a> can be used to modernise a range of house styles, maximising space, light and wow factor <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/blog/achieving-the-modern-look-with-hardie-fine-texture-cladding">here</a>.

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The spacious Sydney transformation using James Hardie's Axon™ cladding products by opening up to views of nature, & creating a form that belongs to its surroundings.

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An interior architect shows how to use different materials on the exterior

Using a mix of cladding adds richness to home designs and streetscapes. James Hardie sat down for a virtual coffee with <a href="https://gilchristhomes.com.au/">Gilchrist Homes</a> to find out their secret for getting the mixed cladding look right. The focus of our discussion was their head-turning, award winning Elwood Display home in Wodonga on the border of NSW and Victoria, which was designed in collaboration with <a href="https://www.ausplandesign.com.au/about-us/">Ausplan Group</a> for their client <a href="https://greenesthouse.com.au/about">Greenest House.</a>
It’s important to work with the Built Form Design Guidelines provided by the council or developer. Typically, they don’t want insipid home designs. They want interesting house designs in a style that suits the suburb and makes a positive contribution to the street. Inviting streetscapes are good for the wellbeing of communities and house prices.
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Form meets function. The bold 30 degree roof pitch looks amazing, and is the optimium angle for the solar panels.
<a href="https://gilchristhomes.com.au/">Gilchrist Homes</a> build custom homes which aim to achieve a perfect balance of good design, energy efficiency and functionality.
Their approach to design is unique but effective. Leah Gilchrist, from the family business, is an interior architect. Naturally she’s responsible for beautiful and well thought-out the living spaces. Surprisingly though, she has a big influence on the exterior and tends to challenge convention. 
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Large windows flood the living area with light. They provide passive heating as the winter sun warms the concrete floor.
Interior design works in layers. Start with a neutral wall colour and then bring in shape with interesting furniture. Then bring in texture with a rug or fabrics. Then bring in pops of colour with styling items like cushions.
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With high walls, interesting angles and large openings it makes sense to get a render-like finish from <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a> than cumbersome masonry.
Leah’s approach exteriors cladding seems to involve layers too. Take the indoor-outdoor entertaining area for example. To make the wall a simple canvas, <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a> was used first. It has a subtle render texture which diffuses light giving the grey paint a contemporary matte finish. It’s calming and helps put emphasis on the shape of the building. To add texture and visual warmth, vertical joint timber cladding has been used. Then there’s the dominant feature, the sculptural metalwork. This will look even more spectacular when the deciduous vine grows up the horizontal wires to the roof peak and shades the outdoor area in summer.
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The cladding has a fine render texture embedded in the fibre cement to do away with the problems traditional cement render has.
Matt Gilchrist, Managing Director of <a href="https://gilchristhomes.com.au/">Gilchrist Homes</a>, says “While people love the look of our Elwood Display home, it’s rare we build the same house twice. We’re a custom home builder and we listen to the homeowner and build to the story of their family and contribute our expertise in design and energy efficiency”.
The Elwood Display home achieves a remarkable energy star rating of 7.7 with standard insulation and single layer glass. The Albury Wodonga area has hot summers and freezing winters which help demonstrate the thermal performance of the design.
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Dark colours don’t need to be avoided. The durable fibre cement Hardie Cladding is installed on a cavity with a reflective foil weather barrier to reduce heat transfer.
What’s a Gilchrist Home like to live in? Kiah Beaumont, Construction Manager says “We aim for a high-end feel by being smart where we spend money. We invest more time in the planning phase up front and bring clients on the design journey so they understand the orientation and placement of the rooms and are confident with the finishes chosen. As a result, the build time is typically fast. As quick as just 4 months.
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<a href="https://gilchristhomes.com.au/">Gilchrist Homes</a> are passionate about innovation. They were one of the first Victorian home builders to use <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a>. They find designing and building homes to be a joyful and rewarding process. Even more rewarding since the Elwood Display home has just won “Best Display Home valued $350,000 to $500,000” in the Regional Building Awards held by the Master Builders Association of Victoria.
If you’re looking to build in the Albury Wodonga area and appreciate good design make an appointment to visit a display home <a href="https://gilchristhomes.com.au/">here</a>. 
For more information about this home visit Greenest House <a href="https://greenesthouse.com.au/projects/lanning-street">here </a>

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Single storey homes are cheaper and faster to build than double storey homes, but they require more land. People commonly choose single story homes for their life stage or accessibility. Those building forever homes, elderly and families with young children want designs without stairs. Single level homes can be good for keeping families connected with each other, as opposed to double storey homes where children have their own living area upstairs.

Heating and cooling is also cheaper and more efficient with a single storey home. They’re easier to clean too. Vacuum cleaners don’t ‘have to be dragged up and down stairs and gutters aren’t dangerously high. Single storey homes have a smaller façade area and risk making an unimaginative contribution to streetscapes. Especially with the narrowing of lot sizes. The problem is that double garages dominate and little can be done with just the front room and entry way that remain. Dull designs have little more than a hip roof, rendered walls and a portico over the entry way.

More adventurous homes adopt a distinct styles such as:

- The Hamptons look. A gable roof, weatherboard cladding, front veranda and ornate sconce lighting and fretwork.
- Mid century modern look. A flat or gently sloping skillion or gable roof with large windows and some natural textures or a pop of daring colour.
- Modern coastal look. A shed or skillion roof with a single slope with a large protective overhang, weatherboards and veranda prompting and outdoor lifestyle.
- Scandi barn look. This bold style combines a steeply pitched gable roof, timber-style fibre cement cladding and black and white colour palette.

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Introduce drama and detail to your walls with the clean vertical lines of Axon™ Cladding. Incorporating the beauty and fine detail of painted [vertical joint timber](https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/eaves-soffits/hardiegroove-lining), but without time-consuming board construction or durability hassles, Axon is a range of vertically grooved panels with the detail of vertical joint timber. Featuring a stepped shiplap joint on the long edges for easy installation, it can be gun nailed and cut cleanly with a circular saw using a dust-reducing fibre cement blade. The ideal option for contemporary upper storey and ground floor extensions and suited to modern and beachy building styles, vertical lines make an impact with line and form and bring variety and textural interest to external walls.

Bring drama and detail to your walls with vertical lines.

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Axon™ Cladding - Create a strong visual impact on your walls with vertical Joint Cladding Panels by James Hardie. Prefect product for ground floor extensions.

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The clean horizontal lines of Linea™ weatherboards work beautifully on the expansive [external walls](https://www.jameshardie.com.au/categories/cladding) of modern architecture. Ideal for creating a Hamptons or coastal inspired look when combined with contrasting Axent Trims in new homes or renovations, Linea can also be confidently painted in dark colours. Innovative and durable, Linea weatherboards are resistant to shrinking, swelling and cracking and will hold paint longer than wood. Featuring the distinctive charm of a deep shadow weatherboard without the maintenance of timber, the unmatched thickness for fibre cement weatherboards of 16mm which also enable handy tongue and groove short ends for clean butt joins even off-stud.

A deep shadow weatherboard for contemporary homes.

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Linea™ Weatherboard is a product of Scyon formulation. Scyon Linea™ Weatherboards is easy to install, fire-resistant & durable for external home walls.

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Well designed one storey homes can benefit from abundant natural light and open plan living spaces that seamlessly connect with outdoor rooms.

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Hardie™ Single Storey House comes in various looks like Hamptons Look, Modern Coastal Look and Scandi Barn Look. explore through our delightful Single Storey House Designs.

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An interior architect shows how to use mix of different materials like Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding and Axon™ Cladding on the exterior of homes.

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James Hardie x Style Sourcebook: a vision for your dream home exterior

It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choice you have when designing for your build or renovation, especially with so much inspirational content right at your fingertips. That’s why, when you’re renovating your home, collating a mood board can do more than just inspire you. 
It’s important to ensure that your materials, finishes, fittings and colour all work together to create a cohesive end product, and a mood board can help define - and refine - your vision. 
But what happens when you’ve found the inspiration for your dream home exterior? You need to be able to break down the elements into actual products and materials, so that you can approach the rest of the design process feeling educated and empowered. 
Enter the partnership between <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/create-mood-board">Style Sourcebook</a> and James Hardie, which has one overarching goal: to connect renovators and new home builders to endless design possibilities. By introducing you to a variety of look options - for both your interior and exterior spaces - you can build up a mood board that will act as an invaluable visual guide throughout your entire journey. The <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/products?category=external-cladding">Style Sourcebook</a> platform works to give you an innovative and interactive opportunity to create mood boards for your dream home look, using real products from a huge range of retailers, which now includes James Hardie. 
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Take inspiration from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_stables_/">The Stables'</a> <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/scandi-barn">Scandi Barn</a> Mood board 
When renovating or designing a home, the interior is often considered first; however, with street appeal becoming more of a focus, the wide range of James Hardie exterior cladding solutions on the platform can help to further drive that interest. It’s important for homeowners to prioritise exteriors just as much as interiors in the design process to gain that street appeal they desire, and the tool now offers the integration of design for both spaces. 
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<a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/create-mood-board">Style Sourcebook</a> goes further than just visuals, by allowing you to use real products from James Hardie and other trusted retailers that you had planned to turn to. 
According to Lisa Cousens, Founder of <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/products?category=external-cladding">Style Sourcebook</a>, the idea is that homeowners can mix and match across virtual retailers.
“Often, that can be very time consuming, if you’re doing it offline: having to get swatches and samples,” she says. “So our key feature is a drag and drop mood board tool that enables you to mix and match products.” 
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The partnership with James Hardie solves a key problem: the site had been able to facilitate the interior design needs of homeowners, but the exterior choices were not always able to be cohesively connected. 
<a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/products?category=external-cladding">Style Sourcebook</a> also allows you to break down all of the components of your exterior, into real products and materials. This means you can better visualise your paint, lighting and cladding - all in the one place, bringing your renovation or design vision to life with ease. 
For example, if you’re looking for a <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/modern-coastal">Modern Coastal-style</a> in and out, you could consider weatherboards, such as <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ weatherboards</a> by James Hardie, which are just one click away. Or, if you’re wanting a modern design that favours clean lines, such as the <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">Box Modern</a> look, then your cladding of choice may be <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a>. Either way, this collaboration allows you to get the best idea of what your finished product will look like, by linking the vision that you want with the specific materials needed to achieve it. 
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Be inspired by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/villastyling/">Villa Styling's</a> <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/modern-coastal">Modern Coastal</a> Mood board
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Your <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/create-mood-board">Style Sourcebook</a> mood board can operate as an interactive shopping list that you can share with your building or design team, and allow you to pull together a vision. They also provide a constant reference point across the build, ensuring that everyone is on the same page about the specific wants and needs of your home. 
According to Lisa, “Interior designers or specifiers within the builder find it useful if the consumer brings their mood board to their selections appointment, and says ‘this is the look I’m thinking of.’ It helps them start the conversation and narrow down the choices,” she says.
With new trends constantly emerging, your mood board can be the best place to identify the look you will eventually choose for your home. There are a few examples of dominant trends on the platform. Lisa also points out that Modern Coastal has been a recent popular style. You can use the site to achieve this look, through putting together light coloured <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-linea-weatherboard">Linea™ weatherboards</a>, with bulky <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding</a> around the window frames, to nail a chunky, boho look. 
Another style that leaps out on the site is the new, minimal Japandi, which focuses on clean aesthetics. If you’re wanting to recreate this style, you could search for cladding products such as <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/hardie-fine-texture-cladding">Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding</a>. These subtly-textured panels can be arranged to give a striking, yet pared-back look - perfect for Japanese and Scandinavian-inspired homes. 
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/studioblackinteriors/">Studio Black Interior's</a> <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/modern/box-modern">Box Modern</a> Mood board
<h2 id="yourstyleevolutioncourtesyofstylesourcebook">Your style evolution, courtesy of Style Sourcebook</h2>
The <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/create-mood-board">Style Sourcebook</a> design community displays the latest trends by showing you the creations of interior designers, and other at-home renovators. That way, you are exposed to new and innovative ideas for the exterior of your home. By featuring certain products on the site’s homepage, <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/products?category=external-cladding">Style Sourcebook</a> can introduce users to new looks and styles that they can then replicate in their own homes, helping users to be inspired by new and emerging exterior design trends, 
With James Hardie and <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/products?category=external-cladding">Style Sourcebook</a> teaming up to help you create the facade you’ve always wanted, it’s never been easier to realise your renovation or design vision.
Get started now! Head to <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/create-mood-board">Style Sourcebook</a> and create your mood board to start to bring your vision for the exterior of your dream home to life: <a href="https://stylesourcebook.com.au/products?category=external-cladding">Style Sourcebook External Cladding </a>

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James Hardie collabrates with Style Sourcebook to connect renovators and new home builders to offer an endless design possibilities to your dream home exterior.

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A Modern Classic: Discovering That Old and New Can Work Together

David and Bec Smith had a clear vision for their home renovation in Sydney’s Drummoyne. They were dreaming of an ultra-<a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/looks/hamptons/contemporary-hamptons">contemporary house</a> with a striking architectural extension. The extension would overlook a backyard retreat with plenty of room for their young family to play and unwind. At the same time, they needed to respect the area’s history. So, they planned to give the front of the house a modern renovation, while keeping within the bounds of the heritage requirement.
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A BLAST FROM THE PAST That is, until a letter from the original builders fell out from behind an architrave – stopping the renovation in its tracks. The letter read: “This building was erected by M. M. Haiges. Carpenter James Haston Plasterers Thomas Smart &amp; Henry Glossip Painter M. Swan Remember us all whoever finds this. 1902.” It was a message in a bottle – or, rather, a wall – that they couldn’t bear to ignore. Suddenly, preserving the 114-year-old building became crucial to the renovation of the front of the house
BUILDING ON SUCCESS The cladding carefully adjoins the original brickwork creating a dynamic contrast that signifies the juxtaposition between old and new, while the dramatic floating second level extension is precisely engineered and well detailed. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom extension is cantilevered over the pool and outdoor living area, offering shade and weather protection as well as a modern visual impact. The <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon Cladding,</a> with 400mm groove spacing, is painted in Dulux Stepney grey and features a subtle vertical groove reminiscent of vertical joint timber. While Axon comes in a range of profiles including Axon Cladding Smooth 133m and Axon Cladding Grained 133m, the wider, smoother profile works with the geometric look of the home, synonymous with modern, minimalist design. It cleverly hides the roofline and solar panels, giving the modern section its clean lines and angles in keeping with the ‘boxy-house’ trend. And, because Axon Cladding is made from 9mm thick premium fibre cement, it’s extremely durable and weathers well, which makes it a low-maintenance option for the Smiths. 
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IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS Kane worked with Bec on an interior design that works seamlessly throughout the house. The grey and white colour palette is interrupted by beautiful black fittings, a very contemporary design trend. It works well because the fittings in the old part of the house are black copper, while in the modern part of the house they’re contemporary black powder-coated metal. The humble heritage facade of this Drummoyne cottage hides an amazing contemporary home that offers Bec and David not just a house, but a home that they can raise their family in. It’s quality workmanship that David and Bec Smith, with their builder Kane Harrison, should be remembered for in the next century. Hopefully they’ve hidden a note behind a cornice. |
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Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Axon cladding 400mm groove spacing
Exterior paint colour: Dulux Stepney grey
Builder: <a href="https://www.evolvingconstruction.com.au/pages/about-us/">Kane Harrison</a>

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Can old and new merge together for a home design? Check out this home Sydney, which has undergone a modern renovation that honors the history of the place.


Modern Classic home: Merging the Old and New | James Hardie Blogs

A mixture of old and new to create the magnificent

Ashleigh and Daniel Escott, of interior design firm AJ &amp; Co Interior Design searched for the ultimate renovator’s dream. After 18 months, they stumbled across a quaint little cottage in the heart of Wembley, Western Australia.
“As soon as I saw the house, I pretty much had an idea in my head,” Ashleigh says. “With beautiful ceilings, original hardwood floors, it was in really good condition.”
Originally, the 1930s two-bedder, with an ornate white and red brick facade, boasted a small kitchen, a single bathroom, a great location on the skirts of Lake Monger Reserve, and plenty of room to create a magnificent family dwelling.
Adding a modern extension at the back while retaining the classic look of the facade was a no-brainer for Ashleigh and Daniel who wanted more space for their family. And so, with a clear vision in mind, the duo set about renovating the old, and creating an intricate design that turned a well-kept piece of history into the ultimate family home.
<h2 id="amagnificentmakeover">A MAGNIFICENT MAKEOVER</h2>
The eight-month process began with creating a shell, one that permitted the inclusion of the very popular Box Modern Addition – a simple yet striking solution for creating space.
“The cottage had good bones,” Ashleigh says. “So, to put a back extension on it made sense and you could make it work quite easily.”
“I liked the idea of meshing the modern with the old,” Ashleigh says. “The old cottage and extension are a complete contrast to each other.”
Using <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-axon-cladding">Axon™ Cladding </a>from the Scyon™ range by James Hardie™, Ashleigh was able to execute a very contemporary upgrade – expanding the quaint two-bedroom house into a sprawling four-bedroom home.
“The Axon Cladding sets it all off beautifully,” Ashleigh says. “The rear extension probably looks bigger because of the cladding.”
Respecting the contrast between the home’s original classic structure and the modern addition, Ashleigh opted to paint the Box Modern Addition in ‘Domino’ by Dulux; deep charcoal that contrasted, yet complemented, the original white cottage.
<h2 id="lifestyleandwellbeing">LIFESTYLE AND WELLBEING</h2>
Once a one-storey two-bedroom cottage, the home now boasts two floors, two and a half bathrooms and four expansive rooms, with a fifth master bedroom addition – the perfect self-contained getaway with its own ensuite and balcony for Ashleigh and Daniel to enjoy uninterrupted views of both the lake and the city skyline.
“It’s so beautiful to sit up there and take it all in,” Ashleigh says.
For Ashleigh, adding the modern extension was a lifestyle choice. Adding more space and creating an open plan design has allowed the family to enjoy the benefits of communal living. When it came to the design, it was all about wellbeing. Ashleigh and Daniel were fortunate in the fact that the original ceilings were quite high (just under four metres) so they were able to incorporate the high ceilings into the boxy extension to create a heightened sense of space.
By focusing on the flow of the space, Ashleigh expanded the kitchen and living spaces.
“We tried to keep it light bright and modern on the inside and outside – that’s where all the striking features are,” Ashleigh says. Making the kitchen the focal point, the space was opened to create formal and casual living spaces.
Ashleigh also focused on creating a soft transition between indoor and outdoor living with an inviting timber patio overlooking manicured gardens and expanding windows to capture a lot of natural light. The outdoor walls feature <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/productrange/categories/cladding/scyon-stria-cladding">Stria Cladding 325mm</a>. The horizontal Stria Cladding creates a unique contrast with the vertical Axon Cladding on the extension, as do the monochromatic colours, adding a sense of ‘drama’ to the space.
Lastly, the warmth and breeziness of the property’s interiors comes from the use of buttery timbers, a neutral palate, Cloudburst Concrete Caesarstone, and a feature staircase that pulls all the various the elements together.
“I really think we’ve pretty much created our own dream home!” Ashleigh says.

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