New Build Visualiser

Plan

• Single storey - one long, simple form with an internal garage.
• L-shaped - a living wing and a garage wing around a sheltered corner.
• Two storey - living below, bedrooms above, and a single storey garage beside it.

Roof shape

• Gable - two slopes meeting at a ridge, with triangular ends.
• Hip - a slope on every side.
• Skillion - one low slope, rising to the north.

Eaves

• No eaves - a crisp, modern outline.
• Standard eaves - about 450 mm.
• Wide eaves - about 750 mm, for more shade from a high summer sun.

Roofing

• Corrugate - the classic rounded profile.
• Trapezoidal rib - sharper, square ribs.
• Standing seam tray - wide flat pans between slim seams.

Cladding

• Bevel-back weatherboard - horizontal boards.
• Board and batten - vertical boards with a batten over each joint.
• Brick veneer - in a running bond.
• Fibre cement panel - flat sheets with crisp joints.

Outdoors

• No deck
• Hardwood - a deep red-brown timber deck off the living rooms.
• Pine - a lighter, golden timber deck.
• Composite - grey composite boards.
• No front fence
• Horizontal slat - dark stained slats with gaps.
• Vertical paling - a solid timber fence.
• Flat section
• Sloping section - the back of the section raised behind a timber pole retaining wall.
• No pole shed
• Pole shed - an open-fronted shed clad in the roof colour.

Sun

• Midsummer - late December.
• Equinox - late March and late September.
• Midwinter - late June.

A slider moves the sun from 7 am to 7 pm, in sun time, at Auckland's latitude.