External Appearance
Facade Fail
Wood Columns…. Stone Columns….. Brickwork…… Painted Board…… Flat Roof……. Pitched Tile Roof…… This House looks like it’s in a competition to get as many different materials in the facade. It’s a display home……….in an attempt to make it look different it…
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What’s The Side View Of Your House?
When most people look at a display home the two first considerations are: The Floor Plan. The Front Elevation. (Like the impressive facade in this photo) Sometimes that works fine when all the houses are in a line, and the…
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Garage Doors
Originally garages doors were hinged doors, then tilt and lift doors came in. More recently the main choice for garage doors is between roller doors or sectional panels. Roller Doors Fairly common as its the most used door in commercial…
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Eaves
If you go back 39 years most houses had proper eaves but now they are less common. As I travel around I sometimes see new houses with eaves on the front facade but non elsewhere, which I think looks weird….
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Render or Brick?
Rendering popularity comes and goes……………… However I think “Why pay more for a something that is only going to require painting in the future?” As my old woodworking teacher once told me “There’s nothing wrong with being lazy as long…
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What Are Window Infills
What Are Window Infills? Well these painted panels above the top of the window in this photo are an example. This example is not very attractive in my opinion Finishing up with painted infills like this is often a consequence of not having…
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What’s On The Roof?
A METAL ROOF This covers zincalume, galvanised steel and colorbond. Following are a few thoughts: In general a metal roof is noisier as you can hear the rain (which I like) They are fairly light so they don’t put as…
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House Style or Fashion Victim
Appearance is very much a matter of taste with different people liking different styles, there no right solution. If I put up a picture of something as the way to go than more people would think I was wrong, than…
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Rendered Foam Walls
This addendum was added to an original Post from 2014 as there has been a lot of publicity recently (late February 2019) about foam panels and certification has been removed from certain types of panels. A particular issue for apartment…
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Different Roof Drainage
Most of us are used to the traditional Australian roof drainage connecting to down pipes . . . . but this isn’t how everyone sees it. The Hawaii Solution Travelling around Hawaii I was quite surprised to see how many…
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