American Reacts to a MODERN AUSTRALIAN HOME (sort of)
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That house is not a Queenslander home. It’s a workers cottage that has been extended. The house next door with the verandahs wrapping around it, is a real Queenslander style house.
Gday. Totally agree. It is a modernised, extended cottage with some openness like a Queenslander.
Agreed!
He stated it was a modern take on a Queenslander in that it includes many of the original concepts of that design.
@@Chookly44
Not even a cottage anymore.
It's 2 storey now.
They may as well bulldozed it and started new.
@@Robert-cu9bm true. I was being gentle. It's mad they even tried to call it a Queenslander when it wasn't one to begin with. Lol
CBD - stands for “Central Business District”. This term is used in ALL major cities across Australia 🇦🇺
Exactly. And when you hear CBD just basically picture the centre of the city
In American terms, it will be DOWNTOWN!
Same in New Zealand. I actually thought this term was used pretty internationally.
@@gregmccallum3124 Downtown where mate? Seems to be a rather unspecific label there. CBD points to a central location so makes more sense.
In Spanish-speaking areas…el centro
Typical house designs in Australia are definitely related to location. Historically, a "Queenslander" is a home up on stilts with big, wide verandahs on most sides. This was to compensate for a tendency towards flooding (the stilts) and the heat. Before air conditioning, cross-ventilation was how you stayed cool.
These days, at least along the most populated areas of central to Northern NSW and southern Queensland, which enjoy temperate climates, you can definitely see the style emerging in renovations and new builds for completely open back rooms, flowing into the garden. There is usually a lounge-living room at the back, with wide, concertina doors that can be fully opened, to a transitional indoor/outdoor room with outdoor furniture, lots of potted plants and the ubiquitous barbeque, then a garden. Most houses I've lived in have the back wide open, with the dogs (and the kids) running in and out as they please. Being able to open all the windows and have that flow reduces the duration you need to put the aircon on in summer.
But you certainly need more practical measures too, like flyscreens in summer and the ability to close the house against the elements when needed. What you never see in these wonderful, slow motion sweeps through these artfully styled residences, is the cleaning. I look at those curtains blowing in the breeze and think about how discoloured they will be with the normal atmospheric dust. I see the open windows and plants and imagine the cobwebs. I look at our back room at the moment, open because it's a nice, sunny winters day, and I see the doggy paw prints and the leaf litter blown in with the breeze.
Off to do some mopping and vaccuuming.
Yes, the dust is ridiculous...and that totally open house will unfortunately always have a coat of dust settling on it from cars stirring it up on the city streets. Any window that is open more often in my house ends up with a crispy, crunchy, grey filfy curtain and sill.
Great comment but one correction: north coast NSW, northern rivers NSW, and southeast QLD, all have a subtropical climate not temperate. Winters are very mild, like 8C nights to 22C days (47F nights, 75F days)
I was thinking the exact same thing! So much for a free and open lifestyle... probably spend half your time keeping the place clean and well kept!! 😅
The architect said it was built in1911 so it was a Queenslander but the verandah was built in.
Love your explanation. It’s so in-depth. Yep. Totally agree on the fly screens to keep flies and mozzies and spiders out. Also I know in the Gong you get lots of dust that ends up almost like coal wash is still in the air so the curtains possibly over time would get very dirty and yep you would probably have spiders and flies inside.
An average person in Australia does not live in a house like that. That's an inner-city yuppie
Australian’s have lived in open plan houses for decades because of the weather, it’s not new.
But now new homes have moved with the times, architecturally, technology wise, using the latest modern materials as well as furnishings. A lot of older 70’s and 80’s style homes are either renovated or knocked down. Even cheaper homes are still modern in design, plus the new estates everywhere are as well. A lot of Victorian terraces have had modern extensions added to the back too.
Australian houses are more like Californian homes that have a similar climate unlike in the past where we copied the British style.
@@bellabana Qlder homes were never "open plan"
@@ssp4795 Some were. Ours is 100 years old and you can see easily from the front to the back. Then again having lived here for over 40 years, it does not seem "old".
I live in Australia and I wish my house looked like that... This is not a "typical" Australian house.
Typical architect, 99.99% Aussies live in 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom family room, patio, lounge house, not individually designed, either that of rent apartments. Watching this gives people a false idea.
well yes and no
a "typical" Australian house, yarda-yarda is where the outside lifestyle is an intricate part of the design and function of the house
this is a Melbourne-style interpretation in a Queensland setting.
wait till they get the huntsmen in their bedrooms. or a snake.
lol def im looking at 80s lino and lotsa carpet 🤣
@@richardknight1532 that’s what I was thinking- ummm yeah good way to invite a dozen carpet pythons into your home
If you want to see a typical normal house then you defo need to watch Kath & Kim.
😂
100%.
Yes!
Will he be able to understand them!!! 😂😂😂
That would be a fun reaction in its own right. Can't imagine what he would think of Kath and Kim 🤣😜
I grew up around the building industry and one my favourite stories my father told me was of working on an architects own house which he had designed himself when my father tired to point out a problem the architect berated him telling he had this much experience and was members of these prestige organisation and he was just a plumber and drainer my father said fair enough and went back to work when the house was finished the building inspector came in to do the final approval. He looked over the house said it was beautiful, and how the architect had spared no expense on materials and fixtures. Which why he was so sad to fail the inspection. As my father described it the architect sputtered like an old chook and demanded to know why the inspected pointed out there was no toilet. It cost the architect thousands to fix the problem my father tried to point out.
I would be interested to come back in a couple of years to see what changes have been made to the house with the effect of real life. For example as some one who has the large sliding doors opening onto the back yard, on much smaller scale, I know mine have large sliding fly screen doors that let you open them out without letting the fly's in.
A "Queenslander" is a typical design for Queensland Australia.
Each State has its own style because of weather and historical beginnings.
I think the styles are either Queenslander or the non Queenslander. Having said that, few if any new homes are true Queenslanders. People aren't prepared to pay for verandahs. I was able to buy a house that had one already and I love it.
The roof is what we call Colorbond Steel, and we even spell it without the ‘u’. No houses in Australia use shingles. We predominantly use either Colorbond Steel or Roof Tiles (concrete moulded tiles that interlock).
More and more standing seam now too.
No shingles in Australia? Except for the few remaining ones built by convicts.
A "character house" is one that was built before there was indoor plumbing, as described by a selling agent.
Yes, "indoor room" is an oxymoron, but a lot of architects' drivel consists of oxymorons.
A "Queenslander" is a weatherboard (? clapboard ?) house on a timber frame, with a corrugated-iron roof, supported on timber piers well off the ground (like, high enough to garage your ute under it) for ventilation, to be "high and dry" in wet weather, and for some escape from various pests.
The "CBD" of an Australian city is its central business district, equivalent to "downtown" in a US city.
We don't use shingles or tar-paper for roofs much in Australia. The usual materials are either tiles (the best tiles are terra-cotta, cheap ones are concrete) or sheet steel (which used to be zinc-coated but these days is more often painted in the factory).
A "gable roof" is a particular shape and structure, a roof consisting of pitched sections that meet at horizontal ridge-caps, and that do not slope to every exterior wall. There are triangular tops ("gable-ends") to the walls at ends of the ridge-caps. It is contrasted with a flat roof and with a "hipped" roof (which has complicated triangular, trapezoidal, and parallelogram sections pitched towards all the exterior walls. Gables and hipped roofs are explained and illustrated in articles on Wikipedia.
"Why not have windows with no glass?" I can answer that: because of flies, mosquitos, horizontal rain when there is an East Coast Low, and the cost of air-conditioning.
Don't you mean "outdoor" room?
Great explanation btw. So are you saying that having windows without fly screens and glass are therefore going to be better because the flies and mozzies will go away again rather than come in through a door then stay? I myself prefer fresh breeze to air con but on hot humid days I’d prefer a consistent 21oC I know not good for environment though.
@@Robert-cu9bm Yes, I do. My mistake.
@@jazzyannaliesarose how they cope without aircon in Brisbane is a mystery. and i'm pretty sure the house would be FULL of midgies and mozzies, esp with those tropical plants everywhere.
Downtown and CBD aren’t synonymous anymore. That’s usually a less pleasant connotation to Downtown now.
In Brisbane, where I live, there are a lot of heritage listed Queenslanders - which I saw someone explain in an earlier comment. Because they’re heritage listed, it means you have to leave a certain amount of the original home in place when renovating. This has lead to a very specific style of home in our area which merges the older style with modern. We also have a large drive on green areas, even in apartments, meaning you see a lot of balconies covered in green foliage, even living walls inside homes. We also have slanted roofs because we have a lot of rain and all of our houses have gutters and down pipes that lead the water to the drain systems. Some houses collect water into tanks for either garden maintenance or drinking. Solar and green energy is a really big part of most housing projects here as well. The roof looks like Colorbond which is a very Australian roof and cladding brand.
Paddington itself is an upmarket area of the CBD, and in most upmarket areas you will see almost every house is a variation of this home. There is a big focus on architecture here.
I feel for you, I had the same thoughts.
The house seems extremely important to them, every corner, every arch and they work hard for it.
Our home simply needs to meet our basic needs, we, the people fill it with love, importance and history, that brings me happiness.
I'm not up to sterile gardens anyway, I prefer natural ones.
But I guess, everyone cares about something different and likes different style, and that's good, makes life more diverse and interestingly.
Well said!
I don't know if there is any "typical" Australian house, different States have different styles of houses. I love Queenslander houses, a lot of them have been renovated and are stunning inside. Those big doors are called "stacker" doors, I think, they are really expensive. So that's a high-end home. I visit a lot of homes in southeast Qld for my job, and I can tell you there's no typical house. Although a lot of them can look very ordinary from the outside, they are stunning inside. Alot of houses are now open plan, where the living areas like the kitchen, dining and lounge are all basically one large room. The first thing we did when we bought our house was put a big patio (roof) out the back which is about 60sqm, so a decent size, and that's our outdoor living area. We have a lounge suite, dining table there etc. I also use it as my outdoor office in summer.
I have seen a discussion on the experience of living in a Queenslander. The further north you go the happier people are because there is a myth that it does not get cold in Brisbane.
@@listohan yes it does get cold in Brisbane, but not freezing, but houses in Qld not really designed for cooler weather.
The big difference between AU and US houses is that Australians like to have an entirely separate room for the lavatory.
This. And basements are rare
I'm Aussie, and I'm with you on this ! It's an Elitist house. Your right, there doesn't seem to be any 'ordinary' living area. Where do you kick your shoes off after work? Can Kids whack a ball on the yard ? Can you have a House party, without guests walking on eggshells? Or do they sit at all times and breathe the ambience ? Nah Mate, this is a Wanker House.
Hi 60s Hippy … the last part of your comment made me laugh out loud 😊😊… Thanks !
60s Hippy...
"A Wanker's House"
This house would be perfect for you.
@@jimreid9674 No, It wouldn't because I'm not that pretentious. The 'Old Queenslander' did the job perfectly enough! I believe they were probably the earliest 'Open Plan' houses.
@@60shippy27 The gun barrel hallway.
Haha I am with you Ryan, i would feel clumsy and unsophisticated too.It is beautiful but nothing like what I have ever lived in. You make me laugh because of the things you notice and the honesty you have. 😆
Nice place. Please don't think we all live in houses like this though. We'd all like to but that place would be super expensive
Ah no not everyone would like that. Unless you like mosquito bites and fighting off flies during the summer - not to mention the possible snakes finding their way into your home. Not for me.
The land alone would be 1.5mil there.
Agreed nice place. I could not afford to live in a place like that. I've never even seen a place like this before.
@@wendyedwards6667
You've never seen a nice house before??... Where do you live.
We love to throw the windows open during spring and early summer so we use sliding doors or French doors that open right up so the outdoor connects to the indoor. We have BBQs and outdoor seating that can include outdoor weatherproof sofas and arm chairs.
I think the thing to remember is that this is architect design, inner city, and well, pretty high end. Australian homes are built for hot summers, cool but temperate winters depending on how far north you live. Outdoor spaces are important to nearly every home. Solar is big here, as are rain water tanks, fireplaces and lots of light. Our building standards and materials are designed for the elements of extreme heat, cold and wind. Metal or tile for the roof. Homes will be designed for their location. Hope you get here one day! Mostly, Aussies know they live in the best place in the world!
I live in an outer suburb of Sydney in a 4 bedroom cottage. When we first bought it, the first thing we did was put on a large front verandah & an even larger back verandah. Australian lifestyle loves nature (well, everyone I know anyway!😂) Bathroom & kitchen renovations had to wait, we needed that contact with the outside, French doors & extra windows on the back walls, front walls, building gardens to have green areas. We’ve kept as much of the character as we could, beautiful decorative cornices & picture rails, for example.
The house is North/South facing so in winter the front verandah gives lots of sunshine into the living areas, in summer the back space is cooler & a great place to entertain.
I may live in a concrete jungle (city) atm but my home is a haven. There are many different styles of houses here & largely depends where you live.
The house in this video doesn't come close to reflecting a normal home in anywhere in Australia. It is a concept home that has been designed by an architect... it is a bit of a pretentious marketing video.
Instead of watching videos like this how about reaching out an interviewing people with questions?
I understand that Australia has solar panels per home than anywhere else in the world. In part created by government policy.
Housing in Queensland are very different to housing where I live in Canberra because "the weather".
The skin-tight jeans on the dude told you this was going to be major pretentious wankerness right from the start
Gable is the pitch / shape of the roof. The roof is covered in corrugated iron sheets, a very common and popular product here in Aus. It's also used for fencing. Yeah, solar panels is very popular here in Western Australia. I've got 16 panels, and adding another 8 this year, they're fantastic and would recommend to anyone who gets enough sun
Outdoor rooms are pretty commonplace now in Australia, a great proportion of homes have a outdoor eating area or ‘alfresco’ plus we have an outdoor lounge area for entertaining as well. It’s made possible by our (mainly) good weather 🙂
Look at the white house next door to this one which is raised above the ground and has wide verandahs going around. That is a traditional Brisbane house called a Queenslander (named after the state of Queensland). They are designed to catch the breezes to be cool in summer but can be very cold in what passes for winter there. Some houses are raised on order to be above flood levels. Also the cool breezes come under the house and rise up to cool it. Queenslanders range from simple cottages to elaborate mansions and can be very beautiful. Some have a wide corridor running from front to back for cross ventilation, which is called a breeze way. The house shown is not really a Queenslander but a modern interpretation of one. Opening up the back of the house to the garden has become very popular.6
Need them here in the UK at the moment.
Wanna swap?
After seeing this architect ''grand design'' house probably costing in the millions of dollars makes me quite contented with my $280,000 1960's shack situated in Goolwa SA and an easy 5 minute stroll to where the mighty Murray River meets the sea.
This is some designer home that no Australian would live in. It’s something that Lifestyle channel would feature. This narrator is having a dream time moment.
Great weather but the mosquitoes (after the wet season we’ve just had) will probably drive them to put in screens. I grew up in that town! The architecture in Australia is a mix like USA. Beach shacks, Colonial, bungalow style, the “Queenslander”, art deco and modern. Areas have different styles depending on the weather and economy. Paddington is in an area that has experienced an economic change and facelift. Forty years ago it was mainly “red light”🤣 /low rental
Wrt mosquitos - was thinking this the whole time watching! It's my biggest 'bugbear' with the indoor / outdoor setup like they've got. .. Otherwise amazing place. I live within a few kms. Also did back in the uni days when my room in the share house cost $65! Has definitely changed!
Yep I never thought of that. The mozzies with all that rain. Fly screens fly screens fly screens.
WOW That home is absolutely gorgeous!.. Love all the details & all the huge windows & doors, .. wow thanx for sharing
Colorbond metal sheets or roof tiles at typically used in Australia. It’s very rare to use shingles.
Nothing better when it is raining and living in house with a tin roof 😀
Shingles,wood or like Americans use would be considered a fire hazard l think.
@@jaci_mac23 Except when the tradies badly installed a range hood vent - that leaks 😞
@@tallyhorizzla3330 You mean those wierd asphalt ones on the home renovation shows?
@@steelcrown7130 yeah I have to put a big basin on the stove top when it rains. I've been meaning to fix it for 10 years but I prefer to watch youtubes ...
It is rather cool to open a large window or door and have the rain forest outside within touching distance. Plus it allows the golden orb weavers, huntsmen and jumping spiders easy access to your bedroom while you are sleeping. The Asian gekkos can also come in to hunt bugs but they are rather annoying with their chirping all night. Fortunately the cane toads tend to stay at ground level so you only have to contend with the occaisional green frog or tree snake. Not to worry they are non venomous.
😂🤣
Totally agree!
Not to mention the flies and mosquitoes!!! Oh speaking of chirping ... Cicadas!!!!
This is a marketing video for an architectural firm. A Queenslander is a specific style of architecture that feature heavily in Queensland. It is a design to promote air flow because of the heat in Summer by lifting the house off the ground, wide open verandahs and large windows. This house has some of the elements of a traditional Queenslander but it is not typical.
I’m Australian and you’ll find homes of this quality in all capital cities within the 5-10km range of the city centre and in upmarket coastal towns. Even beyond those limits you’ll find very nice homes. I could throw a stone in any direction of where I live and you’d find homes like this. I hope you check out more content from “The Local Project”, it’s a great channel. Love your channel too! 😍
I love your commentary on this - gave me quite a few laughs. I think you'll find a good many Aussies think just the same as you in this; it's a nice enough looking house, fine for a modern, artsy couple without a young family, but for your average Aussie family it doesn't really work, and it's certainly not 'typical' of houses here.
I live in Queensland Australia and that's very definitely not a typical house in Australia!
I’d be worried about spiders with those plants so close to the windows
What I was thinking. How many huntsman did they have to get out of there for the shoot.
Its Queensland, Id be more concerned about canetoads and pythons getting in.
And lizards and possums. LOTS of those in Paddington.
I'm really impressed by the beauty and functionality of that modern Queenslander house. It's perfect for Inner City Brisbane and the Queensland tropical climate and lifestyle. It's common to design a house on the same principles as the old Queenslanders, all designed to cool the house, protect from severe weather and have a connection between the house and it's garden. We Aussies love our backyards. Those brown screens and the vertical screens are fairly common on QLD houses. They provide privacy, protection from our extreme sunshine and during the summer Wet Season protection from cyclones, severe storms, and the daily rain deluge. The Architects have created a perfect home for the environment and the family.
This is Brisbane it doesn't get cyclones. Just really wild weather.
Yes, there is cyclone weather in Brisbane. That wild weather from October on for months is not just the usual sub-tropical weather but also includes cyclonic weather from cyclones that form up north and travel down the Queensland coast and further down past Brisbane into the Far North Coast of NSW.
The Elon Musk battery was in South Australia. A massive storm a few years back knocked out power to the entire state (I can't remember the exact details, but from memory SA relied on power from Vic, and the interconnector between them (or possibly more accurately the wires to the interconnector) got badly damaged. One of the problems with any network is power fluctuation - that sudden changes in power availability have massive network impacts (I vaguely remember a similar issue from somewhere in the US possibly in the 90s or even earlier). This is one of the difficulties with renewables too - that they don't necessarily give a consistent supply. So Musk came along and said "You need a battery - I'll create one for you (I think worth $3billion) in 90 days or it's free" - and the (state) Government agreed.
At the time it copped a lot of criticism. I think a lot of that was because people didn't really understand the purpose -and argued that it could only power the entire state for less than a minute - but the point is more like a UPS system - it buys you enough electricity to be able to stabilise the network when issues occur (and potentially shutdown safely) .
At the time it claimed to be the largest Lithium-ion battering in the world.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31350880/elon-musk-battery-farm/
Most Australian homes are open plan with big glass doors and outdoor room live outside and inside all the one space,
*new modern Australian homes
"MOST" ?? Who are you kiddin'! Do you live south of the Murray?
Personally I think architects should be seen but not heard.
Ha ha! Bit like artists talking about their paintings 😅
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices. In larger cities, it is often synonymous with the city's financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city center" or "downtown". However, these concepts are not mutually exclusive: many cities have a central business district located away from its commercial and or cultural center and or downtown/city center, or even several CBDs at once. The CBD is characterized as the area within a city with the highest accessibility plus having a greater variety and concentration of specialized goods and services than any other area.
Source: Wikipedia
In the USA you would say “downtown”!
CBD -Central Business District or city centre
Outdoor room is very common in Australia due to beautiful weather specially in Queensland where it is always sunny.
Queenslander = is the people who lives in Queensland however, Queenslander is also a type of house design in Queensland.
Solar panels in the roof is very common in Australia, so you use solar energy.
That house is design clearly for Queensland weather, I wish I have a house like that.
Australian house designs depends on which part of Australia you live. Australian houses designs depends on the weather of the location and direction of the sun. Houses in Australia is not like in US where everyone have the same front door and windows (I'm talking about those American suburb). However, recently a lot of new housing development in Australia is copying American suburb styles where whole development have the same house designs.
Especially in temperate parts of Australia we don't have air conditioning or central heating. Most houses have ways of providing cross flow ventilation to cool the house during summer. I live in Sydney in a townhouse that faces North and has eaves on the Northern side that allow in sunlight in winter and shades in summer. We also have big sliding doors to a courtyard and balcony to aid cooling breezes. We live quite an outdoor life in most parts of Australia.
Eastern Sydney and Wollongong are on the subtropical - temperate border line. If you go north, it becomes more and more subtropical. If you go south or west, it becomes temperate.
The truly cool temperate cities like Canberra and Hobart usually have heating (sometimes central heating). Sometimes in Melbourne/Ballarat/Bendigo/Albury-Wodonga, you will find central heating as well but not always.
That said, there is definitely a lack of good insulation in most houses in the country. Which is inexcusable because insulation helps in ANY climate.
@@pronumeral1446 Yes I made the mistake of insulation in my home in Brisbane, the insulation works, it really keeps the heat in, great in the short winter but I needed then to install air-conditioning for the rest of the year.
@@daveamies5031 I have been waiting for someone to share that experience. It is pretty much as I imagined. You may have saved me money. I am double brick in Sydney with 3m ceilings and no insulation or aircon. Looks like they got it right 100 years ago.
@@listohan My case is exacerbated by having many computers in the house (I work in IT) so the heat from all the computers that are always on gets trapped by the insulation. the insulation would keep the heat out if the house is already cooler and you had no heat sources.
Ryan you should watch “Grand Designs Australia” 🇦🇺. It will give you a great idea about Aussie designs.
How much you respect others is usually a reflection of how much you respect yourself.
So that roof is corrugated iron - normally grey or shiny zinc.
Can be colour bond so any colour.
It has been around on Oz for over 100 years and whole houses were built from it.
The rain sounds great on an iron roof.
This old 'Queenslander' style house is in Brisbane. It's in the sub-tropical zone, so it's warm/hot for most of the year and the architecture tends to incorporate indoor-outdoor areas rather than having a distinct delineation between the two. P.S. This renovation would have cost a fortune & most Aussies live in more modest homes!
I must say I find it strange that you guys over there use shingles. A good iron roof - now called colourbond will last up to 100 years. We have a shed on one of our properties that is at least 120 years old and the roof just needs a slap of paint and it will last many more years.
Actually a tin roof is warranted for 25 years and a tiled roof is warranted for 50 years. The tin usually doesn't stand up as well to high winds.
From what i've seen of the US housing market, the "shingles" they use in the US are usually not even proper shingles (slate) but actually vinyl replica's that need replacing every 5-10 years. I could't imagine replacing the roofing material after 10 years with something I knew would need replacing again in 5-10 years, that seems insane to me, but then I bought a house with a tiled roof and brick walls (repainting timber walls seems equally high maintenance to me)
My home was built in 1879 and still has the original Lysaghts ORB zinc coated corrugated iron sheets on the roof (imported from England, as they all were at the time). They've been repainted throughout their 143 years and still have many decades of life in them.
@@tonycurrie2964 the problem with a tiled roof is that anytime someone goes up on it, there's a good chance they dislodge or crack a tile, letting in water.
That is NOT a modern house..that is a house of someone with a lot of money and is a bit out there and wants something different. Paddington is a huge upmarket suburb of Brisbane...it is very expensive even to buy an old shitbox there.
That is a very modern design, reflecting the Queensland lifestyle of living both inside and outside the home. This home also using design to utilise the breezes . You really can’t call this home a Queenslander style home. The gable roofs are or were the norm in Queensland as rain water runs down and is collected into rainwater storage tanks. A traditional Queenslander have verandas going around at least 3 sides of a house. The ceilings are12-15 feet high, sometimes the inner walls only came up 10 feet allowing air to flow to inner rooms . The Queensland weather, sunny, but we go have frequent flooding and storms, houses were traditionally built on stilts to not flood the living areas. Shingle and tile roofing is not suitable in our climate as they would be ripped off in storm. The steel roof panels are bolted onto the roof frames, also the channels in the design do two things channel the rain water to the gutters and storage tanks and provide strength to the panels. Solar power is encouraged to reduce reliance on the Electricity grid. It also saves the home owner money on power bills. You can get $6000 rebates from the State Government for installing Solar panels on your home, therefore reducing installation costs.
Not me having a little giggle at your reaction to the roof - which, by the way is corrugated iron or colloquially known as a tin roof or "colorbond" due to the company COLORBOND being a large supplier (kind of how americans refer to all tissues as a kleenex, there's a word for that phenomenon but I've forgotten). Its quite pedestrian actually and possibly the "quintessential sign of an Australian home" - affordable and very durable for the Australian climate. I think it may still be the most popular roof choice even today. Its kind of come full circle though and now and is seen on many new inner city homes - including luxury ones like in this video.
Sounds great when it rains too especially after a drought except that insulation is dulling the pleasure.
The grass grows so fast where I live on the Gold Coast, especially in the summer so we have to cut it every week. Even when cut that short. It's probably the same in Brisbane.
that table you commented on is made out of 'hebel'. it is aerated concrete. and is considerably fire resistant. quite cheap too. a lot of new houses are being built with it and it can also be used for sculpting.
The roof is powdercoated corrugated steel roofing....very popular in Australia and much more durable than shingles or tiles.
And NZ
Not actually powder coat - it’s a silicon polymer based paint applied on the same line that rolls the steel sheet over zinc aluminium magnesium galvanising.
The silicon polymer won’t burn regardless of temperature.
A Queenslander style home is mostly raised homes with garage & open areas under the house. It also may help keep the main part of the house above the many floods & storm surges they get there.
This is an expensive inner-city house which is not your average aussie home, a lot of older architecture is wonderful but the majority of suburban houses are woeful carbon copies of face-brick boxes with aluminium windows devoid of character or design, often with poor insulation or decent light, sad but true.
Hello Ryan, CBD stands for Central Business District, and if you want to see a very unique Aussie house then I suggest you look up Queenslander House. I know that Americans love their space when it comes to designing a house, and in a lot of ways, there are a few houses here that replicate that. The houses I’ve lived in, had massive back yards, and of course a nice bath. Love your work, keep ‘‘em coming
I live in Adelaide, South Australia where a huge percentage of homes gave solar panels on the roof. I’ve had them for a long time and haven’t paid a power bill in years. In fact I’m constantly in credit.
what provider are you with? I used to be in credit all the time, but not now with the hike in costs and lowering the feed in tarrif.
@@leannejrobins my feed in tariff is still 54c. (Don’t know for how much longer though).
I’m with simply energy who is also my gas supplier. I use my elec credit to pay my gas bill.
wish i could say the same. even in Qld i still get a bill.
@@shaz464 That deserves a Guinness Book entry.
Yes, an outdoor room is a thing. The windows do have glass. They would be able to shut the house off because they also get cyclonic weather there in the subtropics.
These houses are more usual in the North of Aus, where it’s very hot ,here in Tasmania, where it’s colder, houses are much more conventional.
Looks like a colourbond roof, durable, good at dispersing heat throughout house and hold up better than shingles in winds and rain. Probably because Brisbane is on coast line of Australia and subject to tropical weather (rains, storms etc and also hot weather)
No one of shingles on their roofs in Qld.
It's concrete tiles or metal.
Most Australians live in off the plan style kit house built by one of the major Australian builders. For example Hickinbotham Group in South Australia. The house here is more of a custom build, and definitely specific to Queensland.
That’s not true. You need to look up the meaning of the word “most”.
Probably the only place in the country where kit homes are common are the remote parts of NT.
Then you mention Hickinbotham, who a quick search of there website tells you they don’t do kit homes at all. They build standard Australian suburban homes, constructed by your everyday common tradies. Not a single kit home in sight.
Gday. This house is much more "artsy" than 95% of Aussie homes. The majority are 3-4 bedroom brick and tile with flyscreens, except in Qld.
If you have ever seen the Australian kids cartoon show ‘Bluey’ about a family of blue heeler dogs, they live in a ‘Queenslander’ house. The creators of the show are from Brisbane.
‘Bluey’ is gaining popularity in USA and parents are worried that their kids are starting to get an Australian accent. I think you can watch it on Disney in the US. It’s a funny show.
This shows the real dogs from the cartoon ‘Bluey’ (kids show) they are a type of Australian Dog.
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CBD Central Business District. Typically the city centre.
I was going to say the same thing,
That's an early Australian lower class workers (factory worker, fisherman, rail worker, etc) cottage, 2br, 1 bath, fireplace, etc! Inner city, close to work or the harbour! Gable roof for airflow in summer! Architectural? Outdoor rooms are very common! 👍 Spilling out, is not recommended! This house is not at all typical! I love your real reactions, is this just an architectural ad, or do people really live there? 🤨 My niece really recently exchanged a pokey 2 br unit near busy inner Sydney, for a 4 bedroom house and big garden in Canberra, it was cheaper! 😂 There are many different housing styles here, everywhere, and bargains around, places to build a lifelong dream, and big/small renovations to undertake! 🤗👍
CBD - central business district ie the centre of the city. Most houses have either a tiled or colour-bond roof. I live in Queensland and we have a tin/colour-bond roof and have our rainwater tanks hooked up to the sides to catch all the rainwater, great to use in the garden, especially when it hasn’t rain in ages.
In Melbourne, it is very common to have a foldable wall made of glass panels or (like in a house I live in) double glazed doors and floor-to-ceiling windows facing a backyard/landscaped garden.
When the weather is nice, you fold it or open double doors to let fresh air in. Normally, there would be something like roller blinds installed for night time privacy if necessary.
Thanks for your show, I really enjoy it. I live in Logan Queensland 😁
Hard to say what a "typical" Australian house is, since it varies a fair bit by location an age. In general, we have more freestanding (as opposed to terrace) houses and more single storey houses than most other parts of the world. I think you would call them bungalows. Of course, plenty of people live in double storey houses, units (smaller houses often on land shared with several others) and flats/apartments. Our houses (especially newer ones) are large; I think Australia and USA have the largest houses in the world.
Beautiful house! Traditionally, a Queenslander is a type of house that is usually raised on stilts and has a verandah (porch) all the way around. This was to allow the breeze to flow through and cool the place. It also protects against flooding.
And used to be a place to sleep on a hot night.
Normal Australian visits "Nice house:)" owner starts his spiel, visitor: "La de fucken da." Owner keeps going, visitor "yeah it's a nice house, quit carrying on like a toff and get us a fucken beer"
It honestly depends where you live… I’m at New Farm in Brisbane and most homes have undergone architectural upgrades, many with a similar contemporary aesthetic but I wouldn’t call it a typical example
Architects are this detail focused. Outdoor rooms are just places that you can be indoors in bad weather and then open it up when the weather is better. Australia has long periods of hot weather and it may help to think of how the weather is in Arizona or texas
We typically use roof tiles or corrugated steel for roofing, but you rarely see shingles here.
Yea, I agree with you. The yard is way to tidy for a kids playground which, the whole idea apparently came from. I love the idea of the open room and I have seen this a lot with homes on the coast where you open the dinning room up and you step out onto the sand . Now that's cool. And no lawns to mow, hehe
It looks fabulous. I love the place.
central business district (CBD) is a geographic area sometimes referred to as downtown, but with key distinctions critical to an understanding of city and regional planning.
This is nothing like a regular Australian house. It is a pretentious architect designed building for people with an unlimited budget and bears no relation to a standard livable home for a family. A large percentage of modern houses would be open plan and feature outdoor rooms but would be nothing like this.
This house is a renovation of a 100 plus year old cottage.
The roof is a perfectly normal Australian roof, made of corrugated steel and colourbonded to the colour of your choice so that it never needs painting. We put a new roof on our house in 1993, to celebrate its 103rd birthday. That was its first roof replacement. It had a couple of small leaks only. We think American roofing is NUTS. Our roofs last for generations!
This is not a typical Aussie home (unless you’re rich!). You can see lots of Display Homes in the internet which show a more “typical” modern home. Companies like Masterton Homes, GJ Gardner, McDonald-Jones are just a very few. There are LOTS of companies!
The CBD means Central Business District of the city centre or down town...
And this house is extension to a smallish 111 year old home, originally inspired by a tropical Queensland type environment, but in Sydney.
This type of architecture is not typical but what they achieved with limited space.
Nah, this ain't in Sydney. It's for sure Brisbane. We have a Paddington as well.
A someone who grew up in Brisbane, with an open design like that you will be sharing your house with clouds of mozzies, huntsmen spiders and geckos. Insect-proof screens are a must. This looks like a high-end build and the original cottage would have been heritage-listed so the architects and builders would have been held to a high standard of design and it would have needed to demonstrate separation of original and new elements (hence the glass gap in the roof to show the edge of the original cottage and the new pavillion structure). This would have been a $5ook+ build on a site that probably cost $1.5-2.5 million. As a town planner I am used to hearing architectural design-speak so terms like 'outdoor room' (an outdoor space that is either mostly or fully enclosed on the sides and the sky acts as a roof - it is architect/speak for a human-scaled space). They take themselves very seriously - If I was a development assessment officer at the Council receiving a presentation like this, I would have been sniggering up my sleeve at the pretentiousness of it all. This sounds like an architectural pitch video for an architectural/interior design awards ceremony.
this was a worker's cottage NOT a Queenslander. if you look at 2:22 & if you look to the right of the house you can see what is called a Queenslander.
it is designed for the QLD heat big shady verandas surrounding the house and high of the ground to allow breeze underneath
the shades are needed to keep out the direct sunlight.
CBD central Buisness District.
The local project are known for doing architectural puff pieces like this. It's there thing. It's all hi-end grand designs style builds and super serious with piles and piles of adjectives.
As an American you have a lot to learn about Australian Architecture as a lifestyle statement. But you'll get there. Congratulations on jumping in. 👍
Not a typical Aussie home! At all . Love your response
CBD stands for Central Business District - the heart of the city. "Queenslander" is a style of home built in Qld on stilts, to catch the breezes and keep the house cool. They were built of timber and mostly had large verandahs around most sides of the house. Look them up. They were beautiful and are still very desirable.
No it's not a typical modern Australian home. Some things like the roofing and having large glass doors connecting indoor/outdoor living spaces is common in modern homes though. Light and neutral colour schemes are also big at the moment. Lots of light greys, whites and wood tones.
Your comments were funny, We do keep our lawns short usually. This house is pretty typical of a new modern designed Aussie House except for the open gate front door, we normally have a solid wood front door with a mesh security door
The reason an architecture degree takes 6 years is it take a lot of time to learn how to wank on about simple shapes, colours and a back yard as if they are soul defining features and that if you can't appreciate them fully you have only lived half a life. They forgot to mention that it would have cost their friends/clients a fuck-ton (real Australia unit of measurement) of money to design and build. Few Australian homes look like this. Having said all that the home is quite lovely 🙂.
A "Queenslander" is a house build on stilts so the air flows underneath. Sometimes the stilts are long enough that the house is raised up enough that you can walk underneath. Queensland weather is hot and humid in summer. Tropical. The northern part of Australia has wet, humid summers and dryer more comfortable winters. The rest of country has wetter winters and dry summers and the humidity is much less. If I visit Queensland I go in winter but only take summer clothes because that's all I need up there. I live at the opposite end of the country where it's much cooler.
Would get down to 9deg in winter inside my Queenslander! Not built for winters, but those few months are what ugg boots are for 😆
The windows can be shut and have glass. It does get cold in winter at night in Brisbane. Temperatures below 5 Degrees C and not uncommon and a little bit inland it gets below freezing. In summer however unless you are using air-conditioning it is good to keep all the windows and doors open to allow cross ventilation. That's one of the reasons why whole walls made of sliding glass panels are popular.
In the northern parts of australia, (Brisbae is about halfway up the east coast.) We do not have snow at all, let alone have it stay. We do have heavy rain in season, that comes straight through unbrellas. Most roofs are made with corrugated iton sheets, aluminium sheets or tiles, flat roofs do not channel the water off.. We never see those black rubbery sheets you guys use. A queenslander is a wooden house on 9' high poles wirh verandahs and windows that encourage air-flow, to help with heat. More modern homes are air-con equipped. The house here is a very expensive, architect designed showplace, with very little of the original house left. The way they talk about it all, they have been influenced by too many art galleries, not how most aussies want their houses or talk about them. The owners here will probably be sent crazy, when they find out how many spiders, snakes etc, and dust will invite themselves in freely. Maybe they have a housekeeper so it's a SEP.
This is Brisbane, Queensland. Paddo is 2kms away from me. We have a totally different climate here to NSW and Victoria so the house are built differently. This is a modern renovation house but traditional Queenslanders (a type of house) look totally different. The lats to keep the sun off the windows. (It's a foot rest not a coffee table) CBD Central Business District. I drive through Paddington on my way there. This is obviously filmed in winter because the adults are wearing long trousers! And most houses have 'outdoor' rooms meaning that they can open the doors to combine outdoor and indoor living we also have very large decks and verandas here because it's so hot most of the year.
Queenslander houses used to be traditionally on stilts with vast areas underneath for breezes to cool the house, and a verandah that went all the way around the house.
We are in Brisbane and have a wall of glass doors like that. They are open about 360 days of the year. Brisbane is a great place to live.
Roof is corrugated metal sheet. We use this or baked ceramic tiles. Solar is big business here. If I was building a new house the whole roof would be solar panel with 2 big battery banks.
Roofs with no overhang have become common due to taxation based on roof size.
I live on our patio. BBQ outdoor dining table and spa next to a big lawn with the mancave on the other side
Happy arvo...One thing I need to correct you on from other video's and that is the pronounciation of EMU - it's not ee-muu, it's ee-meiw (like view just with an m)...keep up the great videos...love em!
Allow me to translate for you:
CBD: is the Central Business District of any city. Where all the big highrises are that are full of corporations headquarters, branch offices, government offices, now some residential highrises, entertainment areas, historic landmarks etc. It's the commercial and geographic heart of the city. The rest of the city and the suburbs spread out from here.
Queenslander - a style of houses built around the state of Qld from the mid 1800's right through to the 1960's ish. They are mainly built on 'stilts' because we are a sub-tropical area and it gets very muggy and hot. Being up off the ground allows air to flow under the house to assist with cooling - pre the days of air conditioning. Many of Brisbane's inner city suburbs were built with 'Queenslander' style houses everywhere, most still exist but many have either been torn down or 'renovated' over the last 30 or so years to modernise them. This video is a more extreme example of this renovation trend - due to where it is located - Paddington.
Paddington - is the suburb this house has been built in. It's a trendy inner city 'rat warren' with streets going everywhere up and down hills and houses crammed in at all kinds of angles (I hated driving around there and the suburbs around it). It's a pretty rich suburb filled with older people who have money or younger Professional couples/families - like the couple who own this house. Normally mum and dad are young professionals with a lot of disposable income and work in the CBD or nearby in pretty big roles/positions. They would have bought that crappy old unrenovated house in Paddington for at least $1.5 Million. That reno - with the overly impressed with himself voiceover bloke describing his 'vision' would have been at least another million. So this is about as 'average' an 'Australian Home' as everyone in your state driving brand new Mercedes S class sedans with ALL of the luxury options ;)