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Indooroopilly House in Brisbane, Queensland
Real Estate Interior Redevelopment, Australia – design by Shane Thompson Architects
7 Mar 2019
Indooroopilly House
Design: Shane Thompson Architects
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Indooroopilly House is located in the leafy suburb of Indooroopilly, located in Brisbane?s west, enjoys a gently rolling terrain with and large swathes of remnant bushland.

Its proximity to the burgeoning University of Queensland and connected by rail to the city saw the suburb become very popular in the immediate post war period with generous housing blocks affording an ideal garden suburb lifestyle, and it attracted many of the city?s younger professionals and academics at the time.
Many of the houses were designed by architects and notwithstanding the post war constraints on house sizes, ceiling heights and materials, many of these houses illustrated an inventiveness and quality of design which distinguishes the character of the suburb.
An existing architect designed, weatherboard and terracotta tiled roof house, relatively modest in size, but well considered in it?s siting, planning and quality of construction, had served previous generations of the young family who now inhabited the house.

Set on a large half acre block, the house and garden that had evolved, apart from its size offered many of the best attributes for an ideal co...