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TradCo Journal | A Journey Through Australian Arch TradCo Journal | A Journey Through Australian Architectural Styles: Californian Bungalow (1915-1940) ⁠
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Californian bungalows populate Australian suburbia. Their simple, one-storey design made them easy to build and a delight to live in. Their gardens are generous, their ceilings high and they can be seen to be an architectural promotion of the Australian lifestyle if ever there was one, encapsulating the notion of indoor-outdoor living; and the rambunctious nature of kids racing between the two. ⁠
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Built to house the rapidly increasing populations of California at the turn of the twentieth century, Californian bungalows were designed in a style that consciously went against Victorian excess, which didn’t serve the hot climate. The style would soon get exported to Australia shortly afterwards, where the weather is similar and the populations, too, were booming. Californian-style bungalows soon took hold, remaining popular in Australia throughout the first half of the 20th century. Today they remain key to the Australian suburban aesthetic. ⁠
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Blackbird Cottage: Restoring an 1870s Worker’s Cot Blackbird Cottage: Restoring an 1870s Worker’s Cottage | TradCo Home Stories⁠
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Creating a seamless heritage home is not just about the big hitters, the windows, doors and kitchen. To truly cement this as an old property, the details must be addressed. At Blackbird Cottage that meant paying attention to the small things, like window sash lifts and other traditional window fittings, skirting and the edges of openings. “To add extra charm, we replaced the old flat skirting with a colonial profile of the same depth,” says Lindy. “I added Georgian-style rosettes to the corners of each door and window as a finishing touch.” The sash windows, too, were embellished with Classic Sash Lifts in Antique Brass, nodding to the home’s Worker’s Cottage history.⁠
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TradCo Journal: A Journey Through Australian Archi TradCo Journal: A Journey Through Australian Architectural Styles: Federation/Edwardian (1901-1920)⁠
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The architecture of this period reflected this sense of change, with buildings featuring architectural expressions reflective of the country’s newfound place in international society: solid, exposed brickwork meant stability; verandahs worked with, rather than against, Australia’s hot climate. It was the dawn of a uniquely Australian form of architecture, rather than a derivatively British one. 

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