Stalking close to home
Thu, 31 May 2012
There is a style of architecture close to my heart. I grew up surrounded by these timber and tin houses. Always raised off the ground for ventilation and often to keep dry in times of flood these homes with their core of four main rooms, a central hallway and surrounded by verandas on most sides filled the landscape of my childhood. "Queenslanders" we call them and today I have found a beautiful example. This home is stylish and true to its roots. It has been modernised but not bastardised. It is simple and simply lovely. This particular home is on the hillside just outside the centre of Brisbane in an area rich with old homes but also under threat from apartment blocks and small lot monstrosities that tower above their neighbours and muscle right up to the boundaries. This is a house of another era but still a house perfect for living in today's subtropics. I would happily move right in.
P.S. It helps that there is a killer collection of indigenous art and artefacts from Australia and Melanesia. Link here while it lasts.
Reader Comments (10)
I love it!!!!
amazing house! love the quirky collection of things in a well restored queenslander!
Oh que oui ! Absolutely gorgeous and exactly what I love in a house. Totally. As is.
Beautiful! Love how they kept it simple and true to the house. The photos make it look like a computer rendering rather than a real place, though.
I think this is my favorite home that I've seen on your website so far. The pictures are incredibly good as well. Beautiful!
I am pretty sure I like everything about this house and how the current owners have it decorated. Beautiful
Love the whole house, and almost everything in it.
The dead animals on the walls - not my taste ;)
Hey Jo! My Aussie beau sent me a website of homes in Brisbane to "shop" through and these "Queenslanders", as you call them have so far been my favorites (with the exception of one very nicely designed contemporary). I especially like the ones with "modernized" kitchens and bathrooms while keeping the original character of the rest of the home. This is a beautiful example. Thanks for posting it! I'm imagining and dreaming... ~Sparky
I agree with Whitney, lovely place... and that the photography is WAY too heavy-handed on the HDR. Very distracting.
Truly beautiful home. Love everything about it, the layout, the casual vibe, the wood floors...I could go on and on. Really lovely. Thanks for sharing this.