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With the embedded swept texture reminiscent of softly brushed concrete, these [fibre cement panels](https://www.jameshardie.com.au/categories/cladding) give your home a finish that’s visually sophisticated, and dynamic to the touch.  

The fresh, flowing lines of Hardie™️ Brushed Concrete Cladding are ideal for creating modern minimalist [facades](https://www.jameshardie.com.au/applications/commercial-facades) with interest. The texture transforms with light and proximity, creating a crisp, smooth appearance from a distance, but unexpectedly tactile on a closer look.  

Hardie™️ Brushed Concrete Cladding has the versatility to use standalone, or pair it with other [Hardie™ exterior cladding](https://www.jameshardie.com.au/categories/cladding) solutions to create your dream home from the ground up. It’s suitable for ground floor and mixed-story applications, allowing you to make modern with confidence.  

Fresh, flowing lines for a sophisticated tactile finish

Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding

Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding - External Wall Cladding Range

Transform your space with James Hardie's Brushed Concrete Cladding. Discover the perfect blend of style and strength. Elevate your home today! 

Elevate Exteriors with James Hardie's Brushed Concrete Cladding

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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

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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

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Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding painted in Dulux Domino.

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 133mm Grained

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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

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

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 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

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Linea™ Weatherboards painted in Dulux Western Myall

Achieve a range of sleek looks with customisable Stria™ cladding. Featuring deep grooves from the thick shiplap cladding boards, the Stria range is an easy way to get the strong horizontal cladding lines in modern home and townhouse designs. Stria cladding suits contemporary looks where a bold, but pared-back aesthetic is desired. Introduce design versatility into your home by varying the application and switch between widths and orient the boards vertically or panelise them with the vertical flashing stop accessory. Stria 325mm and 405mm profiles are 14mm thick [fibre cement](https://www.jameshardie.com.au/categories/cladding) with shiplap joints that leave 15mm wide horizontal grooves for strong clean lines.


Clean lines to suit modern designs.

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Stria Cladding 325mm; grooves are 300mm apart. Stria Cladding 405mm: grooves are 380mm apart.

Stria™ Cladding. Shiplap boards available in 2 widths.

Stria™ cladding for modern home exterior

Stria™ Cladding - Accomplish a smooth look with customisable range of Shiplap Cladding Boards by James Hardie. An ultra-sleek cladding option with grooved lines.

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Matrix™ is an exterior cladding system with a clean, modern, expressed-joint look. Matrix offers a bold industrial aesthetic when an architectural panelised look is desired. Choose from various panel sizes that suit different stud spacings, and let the 10mm express joint create a variety of geometric shapes in square, vertical, horizontal and brick pattern layouts. Use Matrix for interior feature walls and paint the express joint a dark colour to accentuate the lines and shapes. The cavity construction design improves thermal properties and achieves higher R-values. To create a bespoke designer mixed materials look combine Matrix with other James Hardie Cladding products such as Stria and EasyLap for contrast and to accentuate design elements.

Create your own clean contemporary look.

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Matrix Cladding 2990 x 1190mm

Matrix Cladding comes in three sheet sizes prompting a variety layouts.

Matrix™ cladding for modern home

Matrix™ Cladding - Quick and Easy to install Exterior Cladding system. Know how Matrix™ Cladding system by James Hardie offers a bold aesthetic look to your walls.

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Evoke a bold, contemporary aesthetic with the wide grooves and bespoke design flexibility of Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding. Square and angled edges cast shadows that bring rhythm and depth to walls. Defined by its bold proportions, this cladding enables the creation of standout, one-of-a-kind facades. The only <a href="/categories/cladding">Hardie™ exterior cladding</a> with a slanted groove edge, delivering highlights and shadows that shift throughout the day. 
Available in 200mm and 300mm widths, these 14mm thick shiplap boards offer multiple installation options and allow for simple alternation or unique combinations. The horizontal Hardie™ Castellated Battens simplify vertical installation, allowing ventilation and drainage through the cavity. The 2750mm boards suit common wall heights to help to reduce waste, while the 4200mm lengths give tall walls a continuous look, reducing the need for horizontal joints. The boards are pre-primed and ready to paint. 
Made with Hardie™ premium fibre cement it will stay looking good. It’s resistant to damage from termites, rot and moisture, and engineered to stand up to coastal and other harsh conditions.

A fresh slant on modern home design.

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A box modern knock-down rebuild in Strathfield, designed and built by Futureflip with Hardie Brushed Concrete Cladding and Axon Cladding. 

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The fresh, flowing lines of Hardie™️ Brushed Concrete Cladding are ideal for creating modern minimalist facades with interest, giving your exterior warmth that’s both clean and uncluttered. 

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Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding clads a Scandi-barn style home. The architects behind this stand-out home are PXA Architects

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Evoke a bold, contemporary aesthetic with the wide grooves and bespoke design flexibility of Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding. Square and angled edges cast shadows that bring rhythm and depth to walls. 

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Discover the endless design possibilities of Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding.
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Architects, Retallack Thompson (Sydney), Preston Lane Architects (Melbourne/Hobart) and Lineburg Wang (Brisbane) were challenged to explore the possibilities of Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding.

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