Au-Argentum

The house was featured in the 8 September edition of the Brisbane Courier, fie years after construction, billed as "Garden and Bush Beyond – A Brisbane House Suggestive of the Outdoors".

The roof of this house is terra-cotta tiles on visible, pitched surfaces and low pitched metal roofs behind parapets or on window hoods. Its walls are based on brick and above floor level are either weatherboards or stucco. To the front, wall panels of weatherboards are positioned between stucco pilasters in a minimalist classical ordering. Panels of shingles or battened fibro sheeting are also used decoratively in gables, or parapets, or balustrades, and lattice panels are used below floor level. The house is symmetrical from the street, centred on an over scaled porte-cochere with paired plain columns on the leading corners, leading to the relatively tiny front double doors with semi-circular fanlight over. This juxtaposition of scale is eye-catching. The windows are diamond patterned leadlight casements, grouped into banks or bays. The high-level window above the entrance has an arched top and compliments the entry fanlight below. Much of the decoration of the house is intrinsic to the structure and construction techniques of the house, as is the nature of the Californian Bungalow style.