Windspray…can you feel it?
Windspray – conjures up feelings/emotions of the sea – those days when mother earth seems to sigh, and with it a moist cool breeze wafts over your skin, calming you to sigh along with her…
Well it is 39 degrees here today (well over 100F if you are a from that part of the world) – and we are in a record drought conditions with bushfires burning across 4 states.
But if you were to glance at the lovely cladding that was installed today you would be taken back to the first line of this post. Windspray. Our cladding has indeed arrived and is being installed as i write. Windspray is the colour of the colorbond range of corrugated iron cladding that we are opting for.
The corrugated colorbond is becoming quite an Australian signature – with its use very popular in contemporary Australian architecture. Of course much of this can be attributed to Australian architect Glen Murcutt who is renowned for the use of corrugated iron in his works.
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Hey the house sure is looking different. Things are obviously up and running after the break. I am not so sure about atributing the use of corrugated iron to Glen Murcott.
We all know that Bluey Smithers of Sheepgully Flats first used corrugated iron to build a dunny in 1812 and don’t forget that it was used in the design of Ferncliff Cottage in 1915 for the (wait for it) roof. Oh, and the floor of the laundry – beat that!
Chewed cotton wool – I’ll have to give that some thought!
Windspray? Plenty of that outside in Shanghai as I write this comment.
Dad
Okay – so maybe it wasn’t Murcutt who first used it – but he picked up on the good ideas from Bluey Smithers (any relation to Waylon?) and brought then to the world stage.
Chewed cotton wool is relatively simply – you just imagine cotton wool….chewed.