The Characteristics of a Queenslander

As most people envisage it, the Queensland house includes most of the following elements:

• construction of timber with a corrugated-iron roof;
• highset on timber stumps;
• single-skin cladding for partitions and sometimes external walls;
• verandahs front and back, and perhaps at the sides;
• decorative features which screen the sun or ventilate the interior; and
• a garden setting with a picket fence, palm trees and tropical fruit trees.