Timber cladding is one of the most beautiful things you can wrap a home in — and one of the most expensive. By the time the boards have been milled, dried, treated, packaged, freighted, marked up by a middleman and finally installed, the quote can stop a project in its tracks. Most people assume that eye-watering number is just what good Tasmanian timber costs.
It isn’t …
Over the last few years I’ve been quietly developing a way of cladding homes in real Tasmanian timber for a fraction of what you’d expect — and, I’d argue, looking better for it. It sources the timber straight from local Tasmanian businesses, skips the middleman and the stocking-and-resale markup entirely, and uses no treatments and no finishes at all. The result still feels unmistakably Tasmanian — a nod to the old apple and shearing sheds that dot our landscape — but resolved in a clean, contemporary way.
I’m not going to give away exactly how it’s done here. It’s taken a lot of projects, a few mistakes, and some very particular detailing to get right, and it’s become one of the things I’m proudest of. What I will say is this: if you’ve been quoted a fortune for timber cladding, or told you can’t afford the look you want, you very likely can — just not the way everyone else is doing it.
Want to know if your home could have it? That’s a conversation I’d love to have.