Photographs · our timber on real houses

Photo Galleries — Our Timber on Real Buildings

Photographs are how most people choose period timber. You rarely arrive knowing you want an FR4 arched fretwork panel — you arrive knowing what the front of the house should look like. These twelve galleries are for working that out.

Heritage decorative timber - ornate cream verandah with arched brackets and lacework

Selected projects and workshop work

A painted and natural pair of arched timber louvre doors.

Turned timber verandah posts lined up outside the workshop.
Post sizes and matching options

An ornate curved balustrade panel being assembled on the workshop bench.

Long pierced timber fretwork panels laid out on a workshop bench.
Fretwork designs, prices and matching

Oversized bespoke timber gates shown at full workshop scale.

A long matched run of turned balusters standing ready in the workshop.

A large custom timber piece on its workshop trolley before dispatch.

Freshly carved decorative timber components lined along the bench.

A pair of carved arched-panel timber doors, shown before finishing.

A sweeping curved balustrade assembled to its full radius.

A craftsman turning a large timber post on an outdoor lathe.
Post sizes and matching options

An oval timber louvre vent with a deep moulded surround.

A full-height bespoke pedestrian gate with an arched centre panel.

Heritage decorative timber - weatherboard bungalow with a fretwork frieze along the verandah

Heritage decorative timber, on a period school building

Heritage decorative timber - fan bracket and balustrade on a red brick porch

Heritage decorative timber, beside the pool on a period home

Heritage decorative timber - green and white verandah fretwork across a Federation house

Heritage decorative timber, on a large period house

Heritage decorative timber, along a period streetscape

Heritage decorative timber - two-storey verandah with lacework on both levels

Heritage decorative timber, on a verandah

Timber rotunda - the original in an archive photograph above the restored rotunda

Timber driveway gates - white boarded gates with a slatted top, hung between rendered piers

Timber driveway gates in a natural finish, with a lattice panel across the top

Timber entrance gates and matching picket fence, with two dogs waiting behind them

Timber driveway gate - boards laid on the diagonal, hung between dry stone walls

Turned bobbin posts, in the workshop and installed beside a stair

Timber staircase with turned balusters and a bobbin newel post

Cross-braced timber balustrade, on a two-storey house and in the workshop

White weatherboard cottage with arched fretwork along its verandah.
Fretwork designs, prices and matching

Two-storey homestead verandah with arched balustrade and fretwork

Turned posts and fretwork on a verandah behind a white picket fence.
Post sizes and matching options

Arched timber frieze and a turned post over a weatherboard entry porch

Timber gable vents - round and arched louvre vents on the workshop bench

Turned and routed verandah posts standing in the workshop

Curved timber balustrade with turned finial-top balusters, in the workshop

Related workshop guides

The Parts of a Period Verandah Explained

About the work

What you get

Australian made — every product, made in our Bayswater workshop since 1984
25 year guarantee — on external LOSP H3 treated pine, above ground
An answer within one business day — we reply to enquiries and quote requests
In stock, or made in 1 to 4 weeks — some of the range is in stock; the rest is made to order
Timber-profile matching — from a photograph, drawing or sample

A word on what they are: these are photographs of period timber detailing, gathered as design reference. They are not a catalogue, and Heritage & Decorative Timber Products does not claim every building shown is one of its jobs. When you have found the look, the product pages carry the codes, sizes and prices.

The verandah

Timber verandah gallery — photographs of whole verandahs. Start here if you are settling proportions rather than picking parts.
Verandah posts gallery — photographs of turned posts. Our range is V1 to V8, all Federation designs.
Corner brackets gallery — three close-ups of the bracket that fills the angle between post and beam.
Balustrade assembly gallery — photographs of assembled and custom balustrade, including curved work.

Arches and openings

Internal timber arches — photographs of hall and passage arches.
External timber arches — photographs of arched fretwork between verandah posts.
Timber doors gallery — photographs of period and screen doors.
Window canopies gallery — photographs of the small timber hoods that shade a front window.

Heritage decorative timber, installed on a period home - view 3

Gable, ground and detail

Timber finials gallery — photographs of the turned ornament that caps a gable apex.
Period timber mouldings — photographs of architrave, skirting and cornice profiles.
Timber fences gallery — photographs of period front fencing.
Timber carports and garages — photographs of period-style carports and garages. We do not build them; we make the timber that dresses them.

What are they all made from?

Unless a product says otherwise, external timber here is LOSP H3 treated pine — the hazard class for outdoor use above ground. As external LOSP H3 treated pine used above ground, those products carry our 25 year guarantee. Interior work is clear (untreated) pine or MDF, which the guarantee does not cover. Everything is Australian made and delivered Australia-wide.

Seen something on a building you cannot name? Send us the photograph. Ask about our timber-profile matching service; we can work from a photograph, drawing or sample. Call 03 9720 1996.

On the house

The pieces themselves

Scale drawings

Browse 65 photographs and drawings in this gallery.

65 photographs and drawings

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