Scandi Barn Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding Kennedy's Bush New Zealand 

A striking family home that combines vertical Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding with recycled bricks for a contemporary Scandi Barn Facade. PXA Architects have used Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding in a creative bespoke pattern with alternating 200mm and 300mm boards.

Kennedy's Bush project sees oblique cladding with alternating 200mm and 300mm boards in a bespoke pattern to achieve a stand-out Scandi Barn facade. 

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Scandi Barn Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding Selah Homes

Oblique Cladding delivers a scandi barn master piece in New Zealand.

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Scandi Barn Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding New Zealand 

Scandi barn home clad in Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding with a beautiful pool

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Scandi Barn Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding New Zealand Rear

Scandi Barn Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding, Linear Weatherboard Cremorne NSW Front Angle Shot

Scandi Barn Hardie Fine Texture Cladding, Linear Weatherboard Cremorne NSW Front Angle Shot

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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.

Linea

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

Elevate Your Home with James Hardie  Linea™ Weatherboards

The render look feels calming and uncluttered compared with the busyness of a brick wall. Its subtlety aids design by putting the focus on the building’s form, or by allowing bold cladding features to standout.
Achieve a modern, minimalist aesthetic with Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding. The smooth, natural sand texture adds warmth and diffuses light, giving your new home, renovation or extension a fine matte finish.
Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding is a pre-textured <a href="https://www.jameshardie.com.au/categories/cladding"> fibre cement panel.</a> It’s durable and lower maintenance than traditional cement render to stay looking good for many years to come.
Installation is streamlined and builders love it.

The beauty of clean lines and a modern look

Fine Texture Cladding

Hardie™ Fine Texute Cladding - Get modern, minimalist look with a wide range of external wall cladding panel solutions. Know how it adds warmth and diffuses light.

Transform Your Space with James Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding

Scandi Barn Hardie Fine Texture Cladding Cremorne NSW Front Angle Shot

A unique Silhouette - Knockdown rebuild in 12 weeks to create this beautiful twin Scandi Barn Modern home design

A pitched roofline creates a dramatic silhouette against the evening sky. Reminiscent of Scandinavian design, the roofline merges with the classic look of Linea Weatherboard to create a unique Australian look with Linea Weatherboard 180MM with Dulux Monument and Axon Cladding 133MM Smooth with Lexicon Quarter.

Two houses that were built in just two weeks.


Modern home with Linea™ Weatherboard

Scandi Barn Linea™ 180mm, Axon™ 133mm, Caringbah NSW, Front wide 

The Cabin Scandi Barn Axon™ Cladding Exterior Wide Shot 

There’s so much we love about this home. With its high impact street appeal and modern simplicity, it’s a stand out on the street with its James Hardie vertical cladding and unique recycled brick work. Launched in February 2020, WB’s The Cabin, located in the northern coastal suburb of Burns Beach, provides home buyers a new coastal experience by challenging coastal design conventions at an accessible price point.

The Cabin Scandi Barn Axon Cladding Exterior Wide Shot 

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.

Axon™

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

Enhance Your Home with James Hardie's  Axon™ Cladding

Kitchener Duplex Scandi Barn Axon™ Cladding Futureflip Long Shot

The Kitchener project features steeply pitched rooves with a simple yet bold aesthetic. A hallmark of the Scandi-barn look is keeping the textures smooth and the shadow lines crisp and that is perfectly achieved here with the use of Axon cladding. The uniform Axon cladding also works so well against the brick and timber to create a great sense of texture.

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Steeply Pitched Gable Roof

Projecting Gable

Cladding in Clean Lines

 Dark Paint Outline

Windows Blend with Cladding

Scandinavian Interior Design

Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding - Cladding Panels

Hardie Fine Texture Cladding product swatch painted in Dulux Domino.

Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding painted in Dulux Domino.

Axon Cladding 133mm Grained

Axon Cladding 400mm Smooth

Axon Cladding 133mm Smooth

3Birds Reno used Axon 133mm grained to get the perfectly crafted vertical joint timber look for extra texture

Axon Cladding 133mm Smooth. One of three available styles.

Axon™ cladding for modern home exterior

Linea Weatherboard 180mm

Linea Weatherboard 150mm

Linea™ Weatherboard

Linea Weatherboards product swatch painted in Dulux Western Myall.

Linea™ Weatherboards painted in Dulux Western Myall

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Modern look book 2021

Scandi Barn Strathalbyn SA Stria™ Cladding 325mm

Scandi Barn Strathalbyn SA Stria Cladding 325mm

Scandi Barn Strathalbyn SA Stria™ Cladding 325mm Wide Angle Shot

Scandi Barn Linea™ Weatherboard 180mm, Nundah, QLD, Front wide 

Scandi Barn Linea weatherboard 180mm, Nundah, QLD, Front wide 

Scandi Barn, Kew, VIC, Matrix™ Cladding, Dulux Black Caviar, Clancy Constructions

Scandi Barn, Kew, VIC, Matrix Cladding, Dulux Black Caviar, Clancy Constructions

Scandi Barn Look is Modern farmhouse designs that connects well with the Scandinavian style characterized by the minimalist philosophy that encourages simplicity.

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Discover which modern look you love.

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It connects well with the Scandinavian style which is characterized by the minimalist philosophy that encourages simplicity. It creates a strong relationship between the design elements and nature. Barn style homes are loved in Australia for their vaulted ceilings, open plan living spaces and bold street presence. 

Modern Book

Scandi Barn homes are cropping up all over Australia. The modern farmhouse aesthetic is ideal for those who love bold design and simplicity. 

Scandi barn home in New Zealand lends well to the modern farm house trend.

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Have you heard of hygge? It’s a word coined by those in the Nordic north, that encompasses comfort and living well. It is most noticeable in the form of the Scandi Barn style - a popular and dramatic look that is perfect for modern living.

Scandi barn home in Adelaide featuring stone feature fire place and chimney and large windows shaped to the gable roofline.

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Scandi Barn Look

Modern farmhouse designs are on trend.

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Discover which modern look you love.

The scandi barn look

From hygge to high ceilings

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