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Three Birds Renovation's House 14 has a beautifully styled kids bedroom with striking orange tones and welcoming furnishings.

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Interiors Inspiration

Top tips and simple home décor ideas that will give your new build or renovation warmth and character and turn your beautiful house into a home

Home decorating ideas to turn your new house into a home

8 ways to make your house feel like home

Oblique cladding on a scandi barn home with a child jumping into the pool, enjoying their beautiful Hardie Home.

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Vertical cladding exteriors are the latest modern home design trend, bringing distinctive style and sleek minimalism to Scandi Barn and other popular home styles. 

Everything you need to know about exterior vertical cladding 

Vertical cladding steals the spotlight

The Three Birds Renovation's team are experts when it comes to creating the ultimate outdoor entertaining space.

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There’s an intrinsic connection between the Australian lifestyle and outdoor entertaining. From hosting long summer lunches to those impromptu family barbecues and special occasions, our outdoor rooms are an extension of our home – especially for those who love entertaining. 

Want to transform your backyard into an entertainer’s paradise? These outdoor living space ideas will make entertaining at home a pure delight

How to create an entertainer's dream outdoor living space

How to create the ultimate outdoor entertaining space

Couple stand in the doorway to their newly renovated home with James Hardie cladding. 

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Upgrading your home to meet the needs of your family, or to add value, is a big decision. If you love your area and don’t want to move, it might be time to consider renovating or rebuilding.

Compare the benefits and disadvantages of a knockdown rebuild and a renovation, and you might be surprised by the outcome. Explore the two options here.

Renovating versus new build: What are the pros and cons?

Renovate or rebuild? How to decide

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Whether you’re undertaking a full-scale renovation, a kitchen remodel or building a new home from the ground up, you will have poured time, energy and love into the design and construction phases of the project.


Whether you’re undertaking a full renovation or a kitchen remodel, interior decoration is the finishing touch. Here are expert tips on how to devise an interior design plan and create beautiful home interiors.

Ready to start decorating your home? Here’s how to create an interior design plan

Expert tips for creating your dream home interiors

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Not sure how to describe the look you love? With so many ideas, products, influencers and fast-moving trends in home exteriors out there, it can be hard to picture what you want your house renovation or new home build to look like. 

It’s the great Australian dream to build a modern home, but many aren’t sure how to visualise the end result. We’ll help you simplify your home renovation and find your style

Help your home put its best facade forward with our guide

How to find a home style you love?

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Your home’s façade is its public face, presenting a glimpse of the beauty, design and style inside. That makes exterior design one of the most crucial aspects of any renovation home project or build.

First impressions count, and exterior design is one of the most crucial aspects of any renovation home project. We’ve compiled some easy curb appeal ideas and a step-by-step guide to gorgeous home facade design. 

Home facade design guide: how to give your house curb appeal

First impressions count: How to maximise curb appeal

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Investing in acreage and building a home – or renovating an existing one – means it’s time to nail down your new home style. Finding the look that works for you is also about finding the look that best suits the size and location of your acreage – there’s a big difference between a large semi-urban block and rolling pastoral hills.

From Board and Batten and Modern Coastal, to Scandi and Australian-Hamptons style homes, the best styles for modern acreage living explored

Make your acreage living dream reality: here’s how

7 fabulous looks for your acreage block

A second storey addition to family home in Bundeena, New South Wales uses Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding and Axon™ Cladding.

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A key trend in modern home designs is Mixed Cladding, where complementary or contrasting textures are used on a home’s façade in beautiful and unexpected ways.

Planning to build a modern home? Define your home style with the latest look capturing hearts on the set of The Block

5 reasons why Australians love the Mixed Cladding look

Why Australians love the Mixed Cladding look

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It’s an age-old question for homeowners seeking more space: should I sell up and move on, knock down and rebuild, or add a modern extension? If you love your home and have simply outgrown it, the third option is an appealing one.

A house extension is a great way to add space and style to your home. Follow our guide on everything from materials to cost, layout to aesthetics, plus tips for heritage house extensions.

Planning a modern home extension? Here’s everything you need to know

How to add a modern extension

Justine Orton's duplex build in Whickham is clad in linea weatherboard and hardie fine texture cladding

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A sophisticated combination of exterior cladding products, including Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding, work together to deliver a visually stunning duplex. 

Ground floor concrete render-look cladding delivers high performance

Orton Haus' divine duplex design

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Sharing photos, videos and commentary on social media is a whole vibe – and we’re here for it! There’s no better way to find your community and connect on topics you feel passionate about.

Every house renovation or new build deserves to be seen. Take a leaf out of the Three Birds Renovations Instagram handbook – here’s seven ways to share your renovation online.

How to share your house renovation or new build on social media

7 ways to share your project on social media

BuildHer Collective's Alison Lewis modernises her heritage home with a structural extension made possible with Hardie Brushed Concrete Cladding.

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Using mixed cladding materials on an extension to your heritage house creates a custom look that’s durable, aesthetically pleasing and easy to install.  

How mixed materials can create a light-filled heritage home extension

See the light with a heritage extension

Box Modern build by Futureflip in Strathfield. The home is clad in NEW Brushed Concrete Cladding and Axon Cladding. Woman stands in front of her home with dog.

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A striking knockdown-rebuild combines mixed exterior cladding materials for maximum visual impact and a sleek architectural finish in a Box Modern home design.

Concrete-look cladding elevates modern home design

Simply stunning: Secrets to a standout Box Modern build 

All season decorating tips and inspiration from Three Birds who know styling and decorating the best.

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When it comes to creating inspiring and clickable social media content, let the calendar be your guide. The changing seasons, along with popular festivities and events, are a great excuse to flex your interior design muscles and show off your decorating skills to your friends, family and followers. 

Spruce up your home decor and create clickable social media content using seasonal decorating to celebrate Halloween, Christmas and every season in-between.

Seasonal decorating tips for year-round social media content  

Seasonal looks: Celebratory décor ideas to share on your socials

Traditional edwardian home that has been brought into the 21st century with a modern rear extension. The traditional facade has been restored with Linea Weatherboards, while the extension is clad in Axon Cladding by James Hardie.

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Every house renovation or extension presents some challenges. With older homes, the big dilemma is how to bring a particular era of architecture into the 21st century – both visually and in a way that suits the demands of modern lifestyles. 

Looking for stylish modern house extension ideas for your place? Here’s how to extend or renovate existing homes, no matter what era or style they are.

Inspiring modern house extension ideas for older homes

Options for updating an older home

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The walls are painted, the bathrooms are tiled, the electrics are installed and the shiny new kitchen is waiting to be used. Renovating your home or building a house is a huge undertaking, and finally you’re nearing completion – but now’s not the time to take your foot off the gas.

Renovating or building a house is a huge undertaking, but don’t take your foot off the gas yet. You’ll need to carry out a building inspection and building handover before moving onto the interior decoration and landscaping.

What happens when you finish renovating or building a house? Here’s everything you need to know

So your build project is nearly finished. What happens next?

House 2 has its striking modern facade features James Hardie Oblique Cladding. Similar in appearance to standing seam metal cladding, the easy to install fibre cement boards create incredible modernity to what was once a dated brick 1950s home.

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Discover how Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding transformed The Block's homes from dated to modern masterpieces, and how you can too.

Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding: The Secret Behind The Block

Transforming your dated brick home? Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding is the answer 

The Palm Co home office renovation transformed a granny flat into a stylish home office studio with Axon cladding. 

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Inspired by The Block 2023, we’re sharing this seriously stylish external home office studio, with stand-out exterior cladding

How exterior cladding delivered an inspiring home office

As seen on The Block 2023 edit: a home office studio to inspire

Front facade and entry to this newly transformed farmhouse in Acton Park, Tasmania. Originally, a tired brick home, this family home is now fit for its landscape and the family's taste. By cladding over existing brick you too can update your home's tired facade.

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Learn how to transform your tired brick home into a modern coastal home fit for its surroundings by cladding over brick with exterior cladding.

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