Timber design catalogue
The 2014–15 Custom Homes QLD site listed house designs under Australian timber and plant names. Floor plans did not survive the archive. The names did, and they are still a useful way to talk about a Far North house.
We do not sell these as packages. We treat them as a vocabulary — light or dark, coastal or inland, verandah-led or two-storey — and we point you to the essays that make that vocabulary buildable. The long read is From Aspen to Teak: what the old timber-named plans still teach.
Aspen
Light-framed coastal plan; think cross-ventilation before glass.
Banksia
A wide verandah house for a bushy suburban block.
Brighton
Beach-street manners: pale walls, a simple roof, little ornament.
Cassia
A compact family plan that still keeps a breeze path.
Cedar
Timber-first detailing and a darker, cooler interior.
Cypress
A taller, skinnier volume for a narrower lot.
Eden
Garden-led planning with the living rooms on the green edge.
Elwood
A more urban, two-storey reading of the catalogue.
Flagstaff
Named for hill air: orientation and outlook over street frontage.
Hampton
A calmer, more formal front, still with a usable verandah.
Indigo
Deep shade, darker exterior, less glare off the Coral Sea.
Ironbark
The hardy one: structure and cladding chosen to last.
Jasmine
Scent and planting as part of the indoor-outdoor room.
Kauri
A generous, almost civic living hall.
Mahogany
Richer joinery and a slower, more crafted fit-out.
Tamarind
Tropical fruit-tree shade; a northern, wet-season plan.
Teak
Outdoor furniture and decks treated as primary rooms.
Torquay
A holiday-street plan that still has to work in February.
Acacia
Later addition: a tougher, inland-leaning sibling.
Jarrah
Later addition: darker timber, more thermal mass in mind.
Continue in the Design & architecture hub or read how we inherited the masthead.