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Hi there...
I have a few people asking when am I going to post my pics to lugnet...
The only prob is I never had a chance to finish it since it was destroyed by a
certain person... (so please excuse missing parts/plantation etc)... also the
size is due to the fact that it was originally built for the Sydney Nat Meet
back in June, and to be lap size for the plane etc... hence the no room for a
year look ;)
Anyway, it is of a suburban Queenslander style home... not all look like this
and some vary quite a bit, but I have seen some not far from me that do resemble
something similar...
A Queenslander is a style/type of home that is used to deal with the way of life
here in QLD, the homes that are built today in this theme are more modern and
use other materials, (since most of the original homes carry some shocking
products we once never knew the dangers about)... The house originally was
designed to deal with climate, such as wrap around verandas which were used to
keep the rooms it sheltered, cooler and give the home more air flow etc.
The roof can be high due to either cathedral ceilings or high beams, or just to
keep the direct heat from going right through. In flood prone areas, the bottom
part of a two story home, is empty and on stilts, so that the water is hopefully
only reaching the underpart and not the upper part of the actual living area.
Sometimes it is enclosed only on the outside with decorative slats or with a
‘loo/dunny’ downstairs or used as undercover parking... and not much else...
these days people tend to make use of the room and enclose it making more rooms
underneath and utilising the area.
Many traditional and well-taken-care of Queenslanders are quite divine in their
architecture and splendour, laced with intricate and decorative pieces, finely
crafted workmanship in many parts on the home, both inside and out.
Of course the QLDer style is very British/European influenced, but then again,
check out where the designers originated from ;)
My Queenslander is more or less a ‘renovated’ type QLDer home, where the
underneath part was enclosed with a veranda both on the bottom and above on the
second level... the stairs flowed either side (meaning that you could go either
down the left or the right), but were finished so that you could only go down
the right, since a garage was built underneath (so the stairs had to be moved in
that area).
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=42556
Thanks...
Mel
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