This typical Queensland style home with the large flowing verandah with a typical old style verandah panel featuring sheafs of wheat.This verandah is complimented by the vast amounts of free flowing sandsville lacework.A design dating back to the 1880 period common in Queensland architecture.These old style balustrade and lacework designs would most likely have been…
As a result of the simplicity of construction,standardised designs were produced through the 1920 and 1930 period..Despite these advantages, tastes changed and the style fell out of favour after the second world war.The need for cheaper homes first saw large verandahs reduced to small landings.Internal walls were made of fibreboards including asbestos and gypsum.Land…
Restoring a traditional Heritage Fence or constructing a new fence is made easy with a large range of traditional heritage components. With a large range of traditional post caps now available to prevent water rotting the posts and add that little charm to the fence posts combined with a large range of decorative lacework, so…
The quintessential Queenslander is of all timber construction with a corrugated iron roof. They are all high set single storey dwellings with a characteristic veranda that extends around the house to varying extents but never entirely surrounds it. In later years, many have been renovated to enclose part or all of these verandahs to create…
