Throughout the home, you'll find rough - hewn touches
like timber framing, stone fireplace surrounds and reclaimed - wood paneling alongside more contemporary ones, such as a soaring picture window with mountain views and an open - plan great room layout.
Not exact matches
Importantly, the house truly feels
like a home, every room features old Bali and Javanese
framed prints, collected antique batiks and decorative
timber pieces and selected books, music, films and a variety of family board games.
Within a large, tangled
timber frame — tacked together with crisscrossing struts and joists
like the jerry - built scaffolding of some demented rollercoaster — hefty industrial - grade orange and black cords suspend five tumbling blocks the size of shipping containers.
Hey, nope — once it's
framed you can pretty much just treat it the same as a
timber stud, and there's no difference in hanging extra shelving or anything
like that.
The wave -
like roof is steel -
framed and
timber - clad; it floats and undulates.
Gresford says the savings in cost and time achieved by things
like the pre-fabricated
timber frame «generally outweigh any extra costs for things such as the MVHR or external shading», while triple - glazed windows are no more expensive than double - glazed.
Although a new - build, with its classic
timber frame the house looks
like a well established country home.
It really does help give a nice professional finish and is an easy DIY (I didn't do a
framing tutorial though it's simply a matter of mitering some thin
timber trim and nailing it straight onto the canvas
frame — or, if you don't
like the idea of mitering, you can use simple abutting corners).