Looking for a photo of a traditional Australian house.
ie. the type of house that, if you saw it, immediately shouts “Australia”.

Perhaps a tin shack with weatherboard.

Perhaps a fibro and tile.

Perhaps a Queenslander.

Perhaps a gold-rush era.

Perhaps a triple-fronted brick veneer.

Terrace house with iron lacework? Nah.

Perhaps one with large swimming pool. in the back.

Perhaps one from a recent waterfront housing development, with a Greek portico, Spanish arches over the garages, and the obligatory palm tree in the front yard.

Which do you think is most “Australian”.?

This thread is prompted by a collection of traditional houses from other countries.

The fibro and tile, and the brick veneer. Both are dreadful, but that isn’t the criteria.

party_pants said:

The fibro and tile, and the brick veneer. Both are dreadful, but that isn’t the criteria.

I think the brick veneer would be found in plenty of other countries though.

I’d go for terrace house with iron lacework, in site of the “? Nah”.

I note the other examples are probably a few surviving examples of an older traditional style that are probably heritage protected. The vast majority of the population would live incompletely different style housiung.

So if you are going to go down the fanciful tradition pathway you might as well pivk a big country homestead with wrap-around verandas. Colonial or Federation style.

The Rev Dodgson said:

party_pants said:

The fibro and tile, and the brick veneer. Both are dreadful, but that isn’t the criteria.

I think the brick veneer would be found in plenty of other countries though.

I’d go for terrace house with iron lacework, in site of the “? Nah”.

But more in the worker’s cottage style.

paddington.

hobart

melbourne

Terrace houses and cottages don’t mean much to me. They are not very prevalent in these parts. They all got demolished and rebuilt long before I was born. There’s a very small number of them in Freo, but that is Freo and not really representative of the rest of the state.

perhaps we need to define traditional in this inst.

Current suburban home

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

I’d call that a Queenslander.

sarahs mum said:

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

I’d call that a Queenslander.

Yes.

I like the idea of a Queenslander, it is a house with no space restrictions that evolves as a family grows.

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

That is more QLD than broadly Aussie, I think.

Maybe there is no such thing as typical Australian. It is more a case of several styles best suited to the particular climate and geography of a region.

incidentally did you know that the oldest house (by our superior western standards) in Australia suddenly got about 33 years older back in 1934, it was a work of white magic some might say

here, the communists thought of this one

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/gough-whitlam-house-1-3-million-grant-restoration/100227166

party_pants said:

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

That is more QLD than broadly Aussie, I think.

Maybe there is no such thing as typical Australian. It is more a case of several styles best suited to the particular climate and geography of a region.

Yeah, that’s why I said “to me”.

But then again, most capital cities were built as they would have been built in a similar style to England (the terraced house in the city, the “English” cottage in the country) and it is really only places above the Tropic of Capricorn that had climates that were different enough to require departure from the traditional forms.

Dark Orange said:

party_pants said:

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

That is more QLD than broadly Aussie, I think.

Maybe there is no such thing as typical Australian. It is more a case of several styles best suited to the particular climate and geography of a region.

Yeah, that’s why I said “to me”.

But then again, most capital cities were built as they would have been built in a similar style to England (the terraced house in the city, the “English” cottage in the country) and it is really only places above the Tropic of Capricorn that had climates that were different enough to require departure from the traditional forms.

australians have bungalows whereas they were pretty rare in England.

Dark Orange said:

party_pants said:

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

That is more QLD than broadly Aussie, I think.

Maybe there is no such thing as typical Australian. It is more a case of several styles best suited to the particular climate and geography of a region.

Yeah, that’s why I said “to me”.

But then again, most capital cities were built as they would have been built in a similar style to England (the terraced house in the city, the “English” cottage in the country) and it is really only places above the Tropic of Capricorn that had climates that were different enough to require departure from the traditional forms.

I would say not really. Maybe the first couple of decades of British settlement. But from the gold rush era on there were already distinctive Australian buildings going up. Mostly because of the quick adoption of corrugated sheet metal. Buildings had to be thrown up quickly to accommodate a fast-growing and mobile population, and this was the ideal material.

Note also comes with mail order tradwife.

Dark Orange said:

To me, a “Traditional” Aussie house is a four-square basic dwelling with corrugated roof that has been raised to allow for the inclusion of a toilet and laundry underneath. Then a veranda paced around it which is then enclosed to provide extra bedrooms and a second, third or even fourth veranda added as the decades pass.

Oh, perfect!

Kingy said:

Current suburban home

With then obligatory palm tree. :-)

Ian said:

Until last year that is exactly what our front fence started out like. :-)

sarahs mum said:

But more in the worker’s cottage style.

paddington.

OK.

dv said:

Ian said:

sarahs mum said:

The three bedroom home, which sits on a 641 sqm block of land, is currently listed as the cheapest house in NSW on realestate.com.au – available to buy for $39,950.

Broken Hill.

https://www.realestate.com.au/news/house-available-for-under-40k-the-cheapest-house-in-nsw/

A nice little fixer upper.

Probably a knocker downer really

here we go