A decade ago, metal on a wall meant a shed. Today it’s one of the most-specified features on Perth’s custom and architect-designed homes. Walk the western suburbs and you’ll see facades wrapped in vertical metal cladding, garage doors that disappear into the wall, and feature panels picking out an entry. Here’s why it’s happened, and how we approach it.
From material to feature
The shift is about the systems. Concealed-fix cladding, where the fasteners hide behind the face of the sheet, gives a clean, uninterrupted surface that older through-fixed sheeting never could. Run vertically, with a consistent shadow line, that surface becomes a deliberate architectural element rather than just weather protection.
It also gives architects something brick and render can’t: a crisp, planar, modern face that ties straight back to a metal roof.
The systems we run
We run Prominence Nailstrip and standing-seam nailstrip cladding. Both are concealed-fixed for that sharp, shadow-line finish, in matt and textured COLORBOND® steel. We use them to:
- Clad whole walls and feature elevations
- Wrap garage doors so the door and the wall read as one face
- Pick out feature panels around an entry or a recessed section
Why matching to the roof matters
The reason custom-home builders bring us in for cladding specifically is that we also do the roof. That means we match the material, the profile and the colour across the whole building envelope, so the finished home reads as one considered design. A facade clad to match its own roof looks resolved in a way that a wall clad by one trade and roofed by another rarely does.
If you’ve got a facade in the design, send the plans through and we’ll talk through the cladding system and how it ties back to the roof.