The front yards and the street — the design

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The front yards and the street — the design

All three fronts, from the street. Modelled 5 October 2026 off the working drawings (WD 03 site plan, WD 38 front elevation) and matched to the architect's render. The yards are open, separated by hedges only: decided 25 October 2026, with no walls between the houses (Option B, low rendered walls between them, was dropped). Dwelling 2's timber-look front is aluminium cladding in Headed Gum (chosen 12 October 2026), with the front doors stained to match.

The pictures are AI-enhanced images of our 3D model, not photographs and not a design by Mastacon or the architect. Small details may still differ from the model; where they do, the model and the drawings govern. The architecture follows the working drawings; the upper-storey frames are square to the street and the wall inside each frame is angled, as drawn on WD 10.

Second set (6 Oct 2026): fruitless olives in place of the crepe myrtles, the council crossovers and kerb laybacks, Dwelling 1's driveway at its drawn angle, each upstairs window square at the deep end of the angled wall as WD 10 draws it, and the meter boxes and downpipes from WD 09/10.

Cladding (12 Oct 2026): Dwelling 2's timber-look front is aluminium cladding in Headed Gum, a golden honey brown, with all three front doors stained to match. The eight street pictures were redone on 13 Oct 2026 with the cladding and the front doors in Headed Gum, coloured from Mastacon's photograph of the sample. For the colour itself, the sample governs, not a picture.

To confirm or price

Option A or B? Option B adds a rendered wall on each of the two lot lines between the houses, from the house forward to the front boundary, about 1.2 m high, stepping to 0.9 m for the last 2.5 m so it doesn't block a reversing driver's view of the footpath. It is in the architect's render but not on the working drawings. Decided (John, 25 Oct 2026): Option A, open, with no walls between the houses. Please don’t price Option B.
Garage doors: the 2400 × 2710 automatic panel doors as drawn (WD 09/20/31), flush, smooth, three panels (WD 38), set on the inside face of the opening so each sits back about 190 mm in the rendered reveal. The drawings don't give a colour: we'd like white, to match the render. Please confirm.
Dwelling 2's timber cladding (WD 38, “WRC or similar timber look”): it wraps round the west corner of the upper box and carries on along the side where the box stands out past the garage, one continuous finish with no white strip at the corner, tucked a little under the white top and underside of the box rather than meeting them on the corner (as Mastacon suggested). Decided 12 Oct 2026: timber-look aluminium cladding in Headed Gum. Mastacon (Stefan Mazzeo, 12 Oct) proposed aluminium in place of the documented Western Red Cedar: no staining or resealing, which suits a site about 1 km from the sea, with Mastacon absorbing the cost difference. Of Harriett's two samples, Headed Gum and Cedar, John chose Headed Gum, and asked that the front doors be stained to match it as closely as possible. The choice has gone to Franci to pass on to Mastacon. Please confirm the order, the product name and its coastal warranty, and that it wraps the corner as described here.
Dwelling 1's angled driveway around the council street tree: please confirm the crossover position with council, the crossover permit, and how the driveway is built inside the tree's protection zone (no-dig or root protection).
Outer side walls (the boundaries with nos. 15 and 17): rendered, 1.8 m, stepping to 0.9 m for the front 2.5 m for the driveway sight line. Not in the contract as we read it: tender R2 item 44 excludes “All Fencing Works”. Please price these two walls (with footings) and confirm the step-down as drawn.
Letterbox piers: a rendered pier at each front boundary with a matte black brick-in parcel letterbox (Milkcan Siena or similar) and black numbers: 16 on Dwelling 3 (the pool house, nearest no. 15), 16A on Dwelling 2 and 16B on Dwelling 1 (John, 6 Oct). Please confirm each pier sits outside its driveway's sight line, at Australia Post's height.
Front landscaping: roll-on lawn, a clipped hedge border (box, or a coastal-hardy alternative), one fruitless olive ('Swan Hill') per lawn (chosen 6 Oct in place of the crepe myrtle in the first pictures: evergreen, salt and drought hardy, no fruit or flower drop on the white driveways, almost no pollen, kept to about 3.5 m), white aggregate driveways, drip irrigation on a timer. Whose scope: Mastacon's landscaping, or separate?
Crossovers: WD 03 shows a new 3.0 m council crossover for Dwellings 1 and 2 and a modified one for Dwelling 3, across the verge to a kerb layback, with the grass verge strips kept between them. Please confirm these are in the contract and who applies to council.
Meter boxes and downpipes on the front: WD 09 puts the electricity meter box in the side wall of each porch, and WD 09/10 a downpipe and rainwater head on each stair front beside the tall slot window. Both are seen from the street. Can the meter box be recessed with a door painted to match the render, and the downpipe and head be a colour that disappears against the white (or be concealed)?
Front lighting: a downlight over each front door, a small uplight under each tree and a light over each letterbox's numbers, all warm white, black fittings, coastal-rated, on a dusk-to-dawn sensor or timer. Please allow the circuits and price.

AI-enhanced · Option A · 1 of 4Option A, open: from across the road. Dwelling 1 (16B) on the left, Dwelling 2 (16A) with the timber-look cladding (aluminium, **Headed Gum**) in the middle, Dwelling 3 (16) on the right. Hedged lawns, a fruitless olive in each, white aggregate drives, a rendered letterbox pier at each front boundary, and the council crossovers across the grass verge to a lowered kerb

AI-enhanced · Option A · 2 of 4Option A: the architect's angle, from the west. Dwelling 2's timber-look cladding (aluminium, Headed Gum) turns the corner of its upper box onto the side

AI-enhanced · Option A · 3 of 4Option A: up Dwelling 1's driveway, straight out of the garage, then angled (17°, as WD 03 draws it) to keep clear of the council street tree on the verge. Dwelling 2's Headed Gum cladding on the right

AI-enhanced · Option A · 4 of 4Option A at dusk: lights on inside, a downlight over each front door, an uplight under each olive, a small light over each letterbox's numbers; the door downlights wash the front doors, stained to match the Headed Gum cladding

Comparison · 3D modelDwelling 2's cladding: the two samples side by side (12 Oct), with the front doors stained to match. Left, **Headed Gum, the one chosen**; right, Cedar. From our 3D model, coloured from Mastacon's photograph of the samples: a guide to colour only

Mastacon's photographThe two samples, as Mastacon photographed them (12 Oct): timber-look aluminium cladding in **Headed Gum** (chosen) and Cedar

Drawing · WD 03 — Drawing · WD 03The site plan (WD 03): the three driveways and crossovers, Dwelling 1's angled to clear the street tree