HomeBeautiful
  • Open Homes
  • Bathroom
  • Kitchen
  • Outdoor
  • Decorate
  • Hamptons
  • Podcasts
  • Beach House
  • hacks
HomeBeautiful
  • Open Homes
  • Bathroom
  • Kitchen
  • Outdoor
  • Decorate
  • Hamptons
  • Podcasts
  • Beach House
  • hacks
Subscribe
Getting your coastal kitchen floor plan right
Watch 2:03

Getting your coastal kitchen floor plan right

{headline}

{headline}

Bricks are back: The latest interiors trend revealed

Bricks are back: The latest interiors trend revealed

How to refresh your garage door

How to refresh your garage door

Why you should embrace your brick home

Why you should embrace your brick home

A classic Hamptons home in the NSW coastal hinterland

A classic Hamptons home in the NSW coastal hinterland

{headline}

{headline}

8 ways to make the most of your brick exterior

8 ways to make the most of your brick exterior

The 3 things you need to know before you paint your home's exterior

The 3 things you need to know before you paint your home's exterior

The best ideas to boost your home's street appeal

The best ideas to boost your home's street appeal

{headline}

{headline}

A quick and easy makeover that will make your home look amazing

A quick and easy makeover that will make your home look amazing

The house colour that’s going crazy on Pinterest

The house colour that’s going crazy on Pinterest

How to renovate your garden and house exterior for less

How to renovate your garden and house exterior for less

Episode 14: Bricks & Mortar

Episode 14: Bricks & Mortar

A Hamptons-inspired family home on Sydney's lower North Shore

A Hamptons-inspired family home on Sydney's lower North Shore

House Rules is coming soon!

House Rules is coming soon!

2020 Dulux Colour Awards Finalists Announced

2020 Dulux Colour Awards Finalists Announced

  1. Home
  2. Renovate

Outdoor transformation: a tired brick home is now a Hamptons dream house

This is how you bring the Hamptons look to an older home - by Diana Moore
  • 28 Nov 2018
Outdoor transformation: a tired brick home is now a Hamptons dream house
Chris Warnes for Monier

After 25 years, homeowner Trudi and Rob decided to update their family home – and bring it into this century, from the roof down.

There is no doubt that no matter how well you build your forever home, styles change and trends move on. One day you might be looking around and realise that everything in your once-modern abode is looking just a little tired.

The problem

Trudy and Rob’s Windsor Downs home in NSW was designed and built in the 1990s – at the height of the Australian obsession with the Federation style. It was time for an update, they say.

It featured all of the design elements of the time – green and cream-painted timber trims, a dark timber kitchen and worn concrete tiles on the roof

“The other roof was a concrete roof,” explains Rob. “It started to discolour and go quite light and greyish. We weren't really that keen on the look of it and we thought that it was time for an upgrade. We wanted to get something that holds its colour, which is why we chose Terracotta.”

Trudi says that the house, while perhaps a little outdated, was essentially well designed internally and externally, so they decided to keep the floorplan, but just refresh everything, starting from the roof, with classic Hamptons style in mind.

“It's structurally and cosmetically a very nice looking home,” she says. “It addresses the land that it sits on well.

“It's a good-sized home and it has good bones. It just needed to be brought up to 2018.”

Trudi Homeowner

The solution

They engaged Dreamroof for the roofing job, which included replacing and updating the guttering and was the biggest part of the property’s overall – essentially taking it from a dated Federation look to a Hamptons-style home. 

“It was all part of a major renovation,” says Trudy. “Essentially starting from the top down. We saw that the whole property looked dated as compared to what modern properties look like now.

Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier

The works

“So, we started at the top and we worked all the way down, which is why we did the roof and then we did the gutters and then we painted,” says Trudi” “And then we put in shutters. Then we revamped some of the garden. It's not the house that it was 12 months ago.”

Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier

Streamlined roof tiles

Monier Roofing’s stylish Terracotta Nullarbor tiles in Peak colour refreshed the house by adding a statement and dramatic finish to the exterior and changing the Federation aesthetic to a more modern Hamptons style.

Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier

A fresh coat of paint

Trudi and Rob say that just by replacing the guttering and painting the timber trims in Dulux Whisper White gave the house an instant facelift. Guttering and dark trims are in Dulux Monument.

Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier
Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier

The result

The new roof tiles are Monier Roofing’s Terracotta Nullarbor tiles in Peak colour, which offered the sleek and dramatic look that the couple wanted, in order to achieve the streamlined style to align with the house’s new façade. And while the couple have no plans to sell the house, they say they were mindful of the fact that because the Terracotta won’t fade, it will maintain its colour if they change their mind in the next decade and put it on the market.

Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier

“I think it's beautiful. It's now a Hamptons home. It's a white and black Hamptons home.”

Trudi Homeowner
Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier
Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier
Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation
Chris Warnes for Monier

Get the look

Stunning Hamptons exterior renovation

Clockwise from bottom left: 'Whisper White'  and 'Monument' exterior paint, Dulux | Nullabor terracotta tiles in Peak, Monier | 'Hampton' garden bench, $359, The Porch Furniture | 'Romano' iron urn & base, $589, Zanui |

  

You might also like:

A classic Hamptons home in the NSW coastal hinterland

How to get Hamptons style outside

Why you should embrace your brick home

  • Open Homes
  • Renovate
  • Hamptons
Diana Moore
Diana Moore
Content expert, florist and interior decorator Diana Moore has been passionate about helping others make the perfect home ever since she moved into her own. From styling her local bar to feel like your best friend’s lounge room, to randomly restyling people’s bookshelves, Diana is a firm believer in making the best of what you have in front of you.

FREE Miranda Kerr Mug-SAVE 31%

by Royal Albert, when you subscribe

Subscribe Now
FREE Miranda Kerr Mug

FREE Miranda Kerr Mug-SAVE 31%

by Royal Albert, when you subscribe

Subscribe Now
FREE Miranda Kerr Mug

Recommended to you

Getting your coastal kitchen floor plan right
Watch 2:03

Getting your coastal kitchen floor plan right

{headline}

{headline}

Bricks are back: The latest interiors trend revealed

Bricks are back: The latest interiors trend revealed

How to refresh your garage door

How to refresh your garage door

Why you should embrace your brick home

Why you should embrace your brick home

A classic Hamptons home in the NSW coastal hinterland

A classic Hamptons home in the NSW coastal hinterland

{headline}

{headline}

8 ways to make the most of your brick exterior

8 ways to make the most of your brick exterior

The 3 things you need to know before you paint your home's exterior

The 3 things you need to know before you paint your home's exterior

The best ideas to boost your home's street appeal

The best ideas to boost your home's street appeal

{headline}

{headline}

A quick and easy makeover that will make your home look amazing

A quick and easy makeover that will make your home look amazing

The house colour that’s going crazy on Pinterest

The house colour that’s going crazy on Pinterest

How to renovate your garden and house exterior for less

How to renovate your garden and house exterior for less

Episode 14: Bricks & Mortar

Episode 14: Bricks & Mortar

A Hamptons-inspired family home on Sydney's lower North Shore

A Hamptons-inspired family home on Sydney's lower North Shore

House Rules is coming soon!

House Rules is coming soon!

2020 Dulux Colour Awards Finalists Announced

2020 Dulux Colour Awards Finalists Announced

HomeBeautiful
  • About Us
  • Subscribe Today
  • Contact Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
HomeBeautiful Magazine Subscribe
  • About Us
  • Subscribe Today
  • Contact Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

Brands

  • Beauty Crew
  • marie claire
  • Who

Our Network

  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • BHG Shop
  • New Idea food
  • New Idea
  • Girlfriend
  • That’s Life
  • All Recipes
  • Practical Parenting
  • 7plus
  • 7News
  • Health Engine
  • The West Australian
  • Perth Now
  • Airtasker
  • Society One
  • Starts at 60
© 2021 Are Media PTY LTD
Get more from

Magazine Subscription Offer

FREE Miranda Kerr Mug-SAVE 31%

Shop This Offer
FREE Miranda Kerr Mug