Knowing what exterior style you want to achieve with a new build or renovation is the first step in creating your dream home with the helpful tools finish your home building.

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Modern Barn house design calls for the right tools, products and materials. We explore the Hardie™ products and finishes to enhance, protect and complete these stunning homes

Modern Barn house: how to get the look

Essential products for the Barn house design

Kate Lawrence Interior's Duplex Clisby Way features hardy, rustic landscaping to compliment the villa-vibe aesthetic of her minimalist duplex facade design.

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The right finishing touches bring duplex designs to life. That includes a stunning landscaping plan, plus the right lighting and hardscaping.

Essential finishing touches for duplex designs

Must-have finishing touches for duplex designs 

Clisby Way Project by Kate Lawrence Interiors showcases Hardie Fine Texture Cladding on a truly exceptional duplex design.

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How to bring your dream duplex to life with a statement-making home celebrating a rich material mix of exterior cladding textures and profiles

Stylish exterior cladding looks for modern duplex builds

Exterior cladding tips for a dream duplex build

Modern Farmhouse

Dreaming of a Modern Farmhouse style home? Explore its most important features and learn how to brief your design team

How to brief your architect or designer on Modern Farmhouse style

Modern Farmhouse: how to brief your design team

Renovation ideas

Struggling with your narrow, wide or irregular block? Discover renovation ideas set to inspire your new home design - no matter its shape or size

Renovation ideas for narrow, wide and irregular blocks

Renovation ideas to get the most out of your block type

Cool and warm white

Whether it’s warm or cool, white paint is hard to get right. Here’s our foolproof guide to choosing the right interior and exterior paint colour for your home. 

Discover the art of selecting the perfect warm or cool white paint colours to enhance the interior and exterior of your home.

Warm, cool or somewhere in-between? How to choose the perfect white paint colour for your home

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An energy efficient home doesn't need to be complex. Exterior cladding can help you get that coveted 7-star energy rating

Exterior cladding and achieving a 7-star energy rating

Achieving a 7-star energy rating on a new home with exterior cladding

Multiple, interconnecting pavilions feature the classic gabled roof and create a compound that celebrates clean lines and open space. 

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Feeling the squeeze and wondering how your home can cater to everyone? Multi-generational living is the future - here’s how to bring it home

Explore multi-generational living with exterior cladding

Explore the latest trends in multi-generational living

Neil Hipwell of Futureflip stands in front of one of his latest duplex builds, a minimalist box modern home clad in Hardie Brushed Concrete Cladding. 

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Before you start building a duplex, there are a few things you need to consider, from the block of land to building regulations, materials and design.

How to build a duplex: Everything you need to know 

What to consider when planning a duplex build

The Catalina Burradoo project in Bowral, NSW is the perfect case study for picking the right window furnishings that best compliment your home from the interior and exterior.

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Congratulations on completing your new build or renovation! Now it’s time to make the finishing touches to your home with the perfect window furnishings. Curtains, blinds, sheers and shutters – there are a lot of options and it’s important to consider how they’ll look from the outside, as well as the view from indoors.

Add value and street appeal to your home by selecting blinds, curtains, sheer curtains and shutters that complement the exterior of your home. 

Which blinds, curtains, sheers or shutters should you choose?

Which window furnishings are right for your home?

End result of what can be achieved by following James Hardie's four step process to visualising your dream home with Hardie exterior cladding solutions. A 3D render can bring your vision all together as a 3D digital prototype that beautifully illustrates your home concept.

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Creating a clear picture of the home you want is the crucial first step in achieving the renovation or new build you’ve always dreamed of.

Planning a home renovation or new build? Here’s how to bring your design concepts to life in the form of mood boards, flatlays and 3D rendering.

Use mood boards and flatlays to visualise your dream home

4 steps to visualise your dream home

Heritage meets modern hero project in Petersham. A white Linea weatherboard ground floor facade with a dark axon first storey addition.

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Learn from Futureflip

Heritage homes are full of charm and gorgeous detailing that harks back to a simpler time and they often fall under strict heritage restrictions by councils aiming to maintain their facades and detailing.

Expert tips and advice for anyone planning a renovation of a heritage home

A clever house renovation that blends heritage and modern 

Heritage beauty with a modern twist

Three Birds Renovations perfectly styled lounge room in house 13.

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While big-ticket items tend to dominate decision making during a renovation or new build – choosing flooring, paint colours and exterior cladding, for example – the smaller interior styling details are just as important when it comes to completing your house and making it feel like a home.

From lighting to greenery and hardware, it’s the little interior styling details that will give your home ‘wow’ factor. Channel your inner stylist and follow our guide to interior design finishing touches.

Interior design finish touches

Interior styling 101: Finishing touches for that ‘wow’ factor

Bonnie, Lana and Erin of Three Birds Renovations had a clear vision when embarking on the Three Birds Dream Home; to create a unique take on the Modern Coastal house style that people could buy and build on an average block of land. Working closely with builders, Rawson Homes, to bring their vision to life, House 14 has been meticulously designed by Three Birds Renovations to bring together all the best design features from their most loved homes, so Australian homeowners can own the very ‘best of the Birds’.

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It takes a little time for the dust to settle - and we mean that literally - when a new build or renovation is finally complete. While everything feels fresh and new, it’s a great time to consider how to keep it that way for the long haul - and how to finish it off to perfection, from the landscape design to the special touches inside.

Modern landscape design needs regular home maintenance and repair. Our expert tips, tricks and advice will help you keep your home spick and span, all year round - no professionals needed!

Home maintenance ideas - Keep your exteriors in shape

Best face forward: Easy care ideas for every home

Oak and Orange modern coastal flatlay featuring Hardie Fine Texture Cladding.

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Knowing what exterior style you want to achieve with a new build or renovation is the first step in creating your dream home.

Pin down which external cladding style is for you, with this handy guide to creating a home from vision to briefing a builder 

How exterior cladding can define your dream home

Bring the look you love to life

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When it comes to renovating, building and all things exterior, the question on everyone’s lips is, how much does it cost? The answer depends on a few factors, but what might surprise you is just how little it costs to achieve smart and sophisticated street appeal for your abode.

Cladding can transform your house exterior, and it doesn’t cost a fortune. Discover home design ideas for your renovation or new build.

What does $10,000 get me in exterior cladding?

Love elegant exterior cladding? Here’s what your project could cost

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Like a power drill or hammer, a budget is an essential tool for home builders and renovators. In fact, throughout your project, a clear and detailed budget will become your secret weapon, outlining all potential expenses and covering factors large and small.

A build or renovation budget is an essential tool, designed to keep your expenses in check and on track. Follow our guide to nailing down your build or renovation checklist, devising your budget – and sticking to it.

How to create a successful build or renovation budget

How to create and blitz your build or renovation budget

Bonnie, Lana and Erin, owners of Three Birds Renovation company.


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Over the past decade, Justine Orton, who runs Orton Building with her husband Luke, has helped countless clients turn their home renovation dreams into reality. So when the time came for the couple to build their own family home, she decided to document the journey online.

There are a myriad of reasons to show off your new build or house renovation on social media. Read on for our top tips, plus the best home renovation Instagram accounts to inspire your own.

Tips for sharing your new build or house renovation on social media

How to inspire others with your beautiful finished home

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Decision fatigue; dealing with contractors; living in a noisy, dusty building site with the whole family in tow. It’s not surprising that renovating or building a home tends to rank high on the scale of life’s most stressful events.

A renovation or build can be one of life’s most stressful undertakings. Follow these expert tips on how to deal with renovation stress or stay sane during your home build.

Expert advice: How to deal with renovation stress

 7 tips to beat renovation stress

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After finishing a build or renovation, there’s nothing like throwing open the doors and welcoming friends and family into your new home. Entertaining for the first time is a momentous occasion, so mark it with a celebratory toast, good food and rotating house tours to show off your new pride and joy.

There’s nothing like throwing open the doors and welcoming friends and family into your new home. Read on for easy entertaining tips and housewarming party ideas.

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