Posts Tagged ‘heritage Style Restoration’
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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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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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Heritage Style Restoration in Burwood Heights 1 In 2009 we were engaged to construct a veneer extension of a Federation house in Burwood Heights NSW. The rear of the house was cladding/lined with the dreaded toxic asbestos plus the internal ceilings as well. The area was greater than 10 square metres and a licenced asbestos…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Rosehill 1 In early 2012, a potential client googled my services for working on a Victorian house in Rosehill. The Victorian house was previously the subject feature in the now-old Dulux paint heritage colours brochure. The quote was for: At the right front of the house attach 1 # existing lace…
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