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Heritage Style Restoration in Haberfield 1 Federation Style construction of dwellings in Australia is circa 1900. Haberfield NSW Australia is labelled the Federation Style suburb. In 1916, Mr Richard Stanton, a developer of Haberfield and Roseberry, imported an entire timber bungalow from Pasadena Hills, Los Angeles, USA and assembled it in the Sydney suburb of Roseberry.…
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In 1916, Mr Richard Stanton, a developer, imported an entire timber bungalow from Pasadena Hills, Los Angeles, USA and assembled it in the Sydney suburb of Roseberry NSW AUSTRALIA. The subject house is a solid double brick Californian Bungalow circa 1919. One of the decorative ceilings had seen better days and was buckling/collapsing. Times had…
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Coogee Back to Coogee in 2014 [the first blog in Coogee was Heritage Style Restoration 7], the sandstone façade being [close to the Pacific Ocean corrosive elements] was in a sad, sorry state as per the photo: [By the way that’s my Aussie straight 6, 4 litre Ford Falcon]. Also, the deck was cracked,…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Burwood Heights 2 Back at Burwood Heights, another facet of the building restoration was the opening up of the front veranda. This included: 6 no. new western red cedar window sashes, stripping paint off the brick walls, treating the wood affected by dry and wet rot, mending of the damaged and…
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Bosco verticale! [by the way that’s italian] Forest vertical or should we say vertical forest. It’s been done in Sydney and Milan. Developers propose to build more vertical forests in Waterloo [Sydney] and in Paris. People’s homes i.e. their units in multi-storey high-rise architecturally and structural engineer-designed concrete buildings have a forest on their balconies…
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