Discover your ideal PGH Brick with the CSR Style Guide
Bricks can play a significant role in both home renovation and construction, influencing many design decisions. Confidence in your brick choice is essential, which is why PGH Bricks have been thoughtfully included in the new CSR Style Guide. This guide features six home designs and nine exterior material colour palettes, all showcasing the beauty, strength, and versatility of PGH Bricks alongside other CSR products.
About Nexus Designs
The CSR Style Guide has been compiled with leading Australian design studio Nexus Designs, which has created enduring and personal design for more than 50 years. Multi-disciplinary, the studio offers an integrated service of interior design, product development, colour and trend analysis, within the residential, commercial, and building product sectors.
Nexus Designs has worked with CSR to analyse and identify Australian design trends to help them fine-tune their product offerings and understand the emerging material colour palettes favoured by the industry.
The Starting Point
The CSR Style Guide has been inspired by both global and local trends that have been adapted to suit the Australian environment, the way we live, and ultimately the designs and materials of the homes we build.
"Thinking about how you live in your home is the best starting point when building and renovating," says Sonia Simpfendorfer, Director of Interior Design at Nexus.
"Ask how do you and your family live, what are your patterns, the areas of the home you spend most time in?" she says. "It's also important to consider where your home is situated; what direction does it face, what is the surrounding landscape? Do you live in an urban, rural or coastal location? All of these things will affect the home design and layout, as well as the colours and materials used to build it."
Sally Evans, Director of Product Development at Nexus Designs, adds that homes in Australia are evolving and having to work even harder than before.
"Changing family dynamics, working from home patterns and sustainability considerations such as energy efficiency and longevity, are top of mind," she says.
"The home designs and material colour palettes within the CSR Style Guide represent a comprehensive and future-thinking toolkit of architectural form, colour, materiality and advice that will help inform the future of the Australian residential built landscape," she says.
"This is a real-life guide to thinking about how houses are built, the longevity of great design and how homes can be places of joy that work in synergy with how you and your family live."
Emerging Trends
"Access to nature and the outdoors is key to the Australian lifestyle which is reflected in an increased focus in architecture and interior design," said Sonia.
Modern home design is about maximising indoor/outdoor spaces and a greater incorporation of greenspace into home design and landscaping. The simplified and grounded characteristics of Modernist, Japanese and Scandinavian architecture are being represented in home design trends, each being suitable to the Australian climate, colours, and landscapes in their own way.
The CSR Style guide includes a mix of products, cladding and render including bricks that translate effortlessly between the inside and out. Made from natural materials they can carry the hues and tones of the landscape, making them a great choice for all of these home styles.
Contemporary
Contemporary is a clean and impressive style that stands strong in the landscape but is softened with curves.
Barnhouse
Barnhouse is a dramatic and minimalist style, often expressed with a symmetrical gable roofline an long open spaces.
Classic
The Classic style is a relaxed and welcoming design with both adaptability and longevity.
Modernist
The new Modernist style is refined and grounded and can have a flat or pitched roofline with connected interior spaces to make it highly liveable.
With Australian home designs evolving to embrace multi-functionality with a sustainable focus, the CSR Style Guide provides design solutions that are both practical and aesthetic. CSR products are made to meet Australian conditions and these collections reflect the way Australians want to live, from the outside in.
Whatever your style, there will be a PGH brick to suit. If the bricks listed above are not available where you're located, there will be an alternative. Simply selection your region in our ranges section to view options available in your state.
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