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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 5 My favourite clients again commissioned me in 2008 to build their architect-designed, Council-approved brand new fence sympathetic to the period style of the house. The corner block has approximately 70 metres of boundary against the council infrastructure footpath and crossover. The work involved: demolition of the existing ankle-high brick…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 4 Circa 2004, I was contacted and engaged once again by my favourite clients at Strathfield to build a 3 no. car carport ( as in Figure 1) complementing, blending in with the existing style of the dwellings’ external looks, roof configurations, and roof materials (i.e. tiles and sheet metal…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 3 21st OCTOBER 2017 At the turn of the century, in fact, the millennium, I was contracted to build an extension by my favourite client(s) that would blend in with the existing style of the grand house incorporating the particular external features of the existing dwelling, resulting in a bigger…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 2 At the house in Strathfield, previous owners installed expensive wallpaper in what is essentially the ballroom. Some years back, ( not sure when circa 2000) the owner ( my client) stripped off the wallpaper and found evidence of previously removed timber decoration above a picture rail. The ballroom still…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Strathfield 1 In 1998, I started working in/on a house in STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA and as of July 2017 still there. According to my calculations, that’s nearly 20 years. Why has it taken that long? The house was on an estate reportedly built by a grandson of the founder of…
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