Retro fitting an new timber gazebo, cabana or pool hut structure to your existing outdoor area is a great way to give those tired old spaces from the 80’s, 90’s or 00’s a whole new lease of life. The new structure can be used as the foundation for establishing your new landscaped vision and add significant value and utility to your home.

This simple gazebo we completed recently was designed for the clients to improve their old pool area and garden and give it a facelift .

The gazebo adds depth to the yard while also taking the focus off the everyday garden shed and those little areas that no matter what you do they always look like they need some love and attention.

This is an easy way of visually creating a beautiful area , renovating an old area and feature the things that deserve attention in the backyard.

Finding inspiration for transforming your outdoor living area just got a whole lot easier as a result of our exciting new partnership with Perth’s leading pool producerm Dolphin Pools

Established in 1971, Dolphin Pools is a family run business which has been creating some of Perth’s best concrete swimming pools for over 40  years

To showcase some of our unique and stylish timber cabana and gazebo designs, we have installed a number of our most popular designs at the Dolphin Pool display centre which you can experience the beauty and functionality that one of these timber structures can bring to your backyard. You can even see our latest skillion roof designs.

Our display will give you an idea of what can be achieved through the use of different styles an materials including;  a hardwood ironwood shingle roof with bamboo lining, cedar shingle roof, and skillion Colorbond roof with Glosswood Possum lining boards.

Our display are different styles an materials including; a hardwood ironwood shingle roof with bamboo lining, cedar shingle roof, and skillion Colorbond roof with Glosswood Possum lining boards.

Dolphin Pools display Yard is located at:

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The end of February marks the end of Perth’s summer – though with another week of temperatures in excess of 35 degrees that seems hard to believe.

At the end of such a wonderful Perth summer its a great time to reflect on the wonderful outdoor lifestyle Perth offers.

Austin Development has been in overdrive during the summer months creating more award winning designer outdoor living spaces. If you feel inspired by some of our latest creations below, give us a call – we would love to work with you on your dream project.

Perth Poolside Cabana

Perth Alang Alang Thatched Roof Hut

Perth Timber Pool Decking

New Bali Style Cabana

Austin Developments created a custom design for this cabana taking into account a tight space, solar aspect and the proximity of the structure to boundary fences and the underground pool.

We welcome you to contact Austin Developments today for a no obligation discussion on how you too can transform your outdoor spaces into resort style living.

Luxury Perth Poolside Cabana

The sharp curves on this timber decking made it especially challenging

Some timber decks involve large square or rectangular areas spanning a single level. Other timber deckings involve multiple levels, difficult onstacles and intricate patterns or curves. Whatever the challenge in your timber decking project, the team from Austin Developments are among Perth’s most experienced specialised timber decking design and construction professionals.

The curved pool on this particular job posed several problems , not only was it curved but the tightness of the curve over a short distance was extremely difficult for the installers / carpenters. Each timber decking board had to be cut on 3 sides making it an extremely time consuming and tedious job taking twice as long to finish compare to normal.

The attention to detail on the curve decking not only is a feature itself but creates a soft transition between the pool and the large entertaining sun deck.

Other obstacles this job posed like any pool decking is the pool plumbing around the perimeter , this means the trades all have to take extra care when digging and installing concrete footings to support the deck.

Sometimes initiative on the tradesmans behalf is more important than the actual designer , as most hurdles and problems are all spontaneous last minute issues that the tradesman have to combat to fore fill a design that ultimately will impact the projects final result.

Professional tradespeople can turn your more difficult decking designs into works of art

Constructing the L shaped roof without a space consuming centre post was our second challenge on this project.

Like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, our client had a dream of a Bali style shingled timber gazebo to relax by the pool, but was confronted with some significant space challenges.

What made this particular project tricky was that we had plenty of length either side of the new swimming pool but not a lot of room width wise. The solution? An L-shaped structure.

Coming up with the concept of an L-shaped structure for this timber gazebo was the easy part. The structural proble however was the middle or internal corner pole which would have ended up right in the middle of the entertaining area, decreasing the usable floor space by half.

Another challenge requires another solution so this time removing the proposed centre post required a larger support beam across the front right of the structure. This supported the internal corner with sufficient structural integrity to remove the post and therefore making the end result look a lot bigger than actually is and even more importantly functional.

On this project we had plenty of length either side but not a lot of room width wise.