If you think of a wooden house, does the image of a log cabin come to mind, or perhaps a weatherboard house? Both construction methods that would be familiar again to your great-grandparents ...

The brief was to renovate and extend the existing weatherboard dwelling to accommodate ... from the existing building at the south, to its modern counterpoint at the north. It is consciously ...

Merewether couple Kate and Marc Henty had almost given up hope of finding their dream home when in 2013, an unassuming weatherboard ... time we’d drive to a house inspection, it would feel ...

“Even the old weatherboards were replaced with cement ... from the original house to the modern extension. The front door was custom built by David using the same blackbutt cladding boards ...

However, he says, with modern paints the maintenance regime is a lot less onerous than it used to be. Owners of brick and weatherboard houses alike need to be wary of termite problems, says Geoff ...

and simple three-bedroom weatherboard houses for young families were predominant. Some architects were already pushing the boundaries with Mid-century Modern designs, notably the Group Architects ...