Australians love their backyards … long summer days in the sun with the family, the traditional BBQ with mates, kicking the footy round with the kids …
As we spend so much time out of doors, Australians are obsessed with creating beautiful outdoor living areas. The additional benefit of course, is that a well designed outdoor living area can add significant dollar value your home.
Here are some ways that you can beautify your outdoor living areas:
Add a bullnose verandah
Bullnose roofing is a traditional Australian verandah design that finishes off a home beautifully and adds great aesthetic value. Bullnose roofing is widely used in regional areas and is also found in Australian capital cities on terrace houses and is still seen extensively throughout inner city suburbs.
Bullnose verandahs are joined directly to the exterior of your home and generally run along the length of the house. They can be built at the time the house is built, or added on later. The width of the bullnose verandah is only limited by the room that you have available, and can come as wide as five and a half metres or as slim as just over one metre.
The traditional cover for a bullnose verandah is curved iron and can come in a wide range of colors to suit your home’s other features. A Colorbond verandah roof can freshen up older properties, giving them a new lease on life for a low investment.
A bullnose verandah has excellent cooling properties. In times past, instead of air-conditioners, homes were built with a bullnose verandah all the way around to keep the heat out. Even putting a bullnose verandah on one side of your home will have immediate benefits to the interior temperature of the rooms behind it and will save you money on air-conditioning costs. With electricity prices set to rise, a bullnose verandah is a much more sustainable option.
And of course, the decking of the bullnose verandah provides you with a covered area to sit and enjoy the ambience of the Australian outdoors.
Add a carport
Does your car currently have a home? You can protect your car and add value and beauty to your home when you add a timber carport.
A fresh and attractive Colorbond roof on your carport will catch the eye, as well as the strong timber lines of the carport frame. You can find carports with different roofing profiles that will match the style of your home and become an attractive feature in itself.
Instead of having to fit a carport to your roofline, you can get a free-standing carport. Place it wherever you wish – or wherever you have the room – without having to reshape your roofline. Carport kits can be assembled in a weekend, and if you’re handy with tools, you won’t even have to hire a builder, saving you time and money.
Add a patio
Patios are a functional and beautiful addition to your home and offer great flexibility as to the size, shape and material that it is constructed with. Patios are extremely popular in the Australian culture, as they provide welcome shade during our hot summers and protection from wet weather in the cooler months.
Patios come in all shapes and sizes and are only limited by the room available. The most attractive patios are built using timber, as they retain the wood’s natural beauty. Timber patio roof trusses are visually stunning. They give that unique “webbed” look to your patio roof that will have all your friends talking. Much more attractive, compared to cold steel.
One of the fastest and most effective ways to build a patio is to use prefabricated patio roof trusses. Prefabricated patio roof trusses are consistent in shape and quality, ensuring your patio roof is structurally sound and looks good.
Another attractive patio roof alternative, is to have an arched patio roof. This option is popular with modern homes and suits a wide variety of outdoor living areas. You can choose to use curved iron or laserlight as the patio cover, in a wide range of colors to suit your home. Your patio cover can give an older home an instant face-lift.
You can also choose to paint your patio roof or retain the natural timber look. For the natural timber look, your patio roof can be kept safe from rotting and borers if treated with a preservative, so that your patio will last as long as the house does. Just ask your patio roof supplier to have the patio roof trusses “treated” when you order them.
About Lyrebird Enterprises
As experts in the manufacture of bullnose verandah rafters, curved beams and other curved rafters, door and window canopies /window awnings and a wide range of decorative timber verandah and garden products for over 35-years, Lyrebird Enterprises are well placed to assist you with your outdoor living project. We offer specialist reproduction, new design and manufacturing services for custom curved beam, small or large-scale building projects and provide an obligation-free initial consultation.
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