Ridgeboard is a small Gold Coast practice that designs one kind of house: a huge white gable, built in timber, with the view on the end of it.
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The Queenslander got most things right: a big roof, deep shade, air moving through and timber you can fix with a hammer. We kept all of that, took it off its stumps and made it much, much larger.
Founded
2011
Houses
19
Species of timber
4
Steel beams
0
Mermaid Beach, on the sand
Dune House
The Pacific on one end, the highway on the other, and nothing but timber in between.
Springbrook, in the cloud
Escarpment House
The same gable nine hundred metres up, in a paddock that ends where the valley starts.
Salt and sun on the left. Mist and fern on the right.
The hall
Dune House
Escarpment House
The bedroom
Dune House
Escarpment House
The kitchen
Dune House
Escarpment House
The bath
Dune House
Escarpment House
Spiral stair, Dune House
Fretwork, cut by hand
Library stair, Escarpment House
01
Find the view
We stand on the site at every hour we can before we draw a line. The view sets the angle of the house, and the house follows it.
02
Draw one room
Every Ridgeboard house starts as one room under one roof. Bedrooms, baths and stairs earn their way in under the rafters after that.
03
Cut the timber
Trusses are made up in the workshop and lifted in over two days. Then the boards go on, and the white goes on last.
Studio
Mermaid Beach, QLD
By appointment
Small print
© 2026 Ridgeboard. A fictional practice made for this template. Images are illustrative.