Your home’s design plays an important role in maintaining the high standard of quality and character of Round Mountain.

Thoughtful consideration of facade design, materials, colours, screening, service locations and roof form helps create a cohesive streetscape, ensures privacy, and contributes to a home you can be proud of.

By following these guidelines, you’ll help create a beautiful, well-designed community that you and your neighbours can enjoy for years to come.

General External Materials and Finishes

To give a sense of variety and interest a mix of materials and colours must be used for all walls of your home, particularly walls that are facing the street, open space or park frontage.

To provide texture and interest to your home the following must be incorporated:

• A minimum of two and a maximum of three variations of colour, and
• At least two different materials (excluding windows, doors and garage doors).

Colour and/or material change should comprise a minimum of 10% of the facade wall area.

The following materials are acceptable for the primary building material of your home:

• Rendered and painted brickwork
• Rendered and painted masonry blocks
• Lightweight materials including, but not limited to: stria, axon, matrix and linea weather board cladding

Face brickwork or split-face block work is not permitted on any external walls of a house except as a feature only.

Bagged and painted brickwork is only permitted when not visible from public areas.

Unpainted metalwork is not permitted however small elements of feature cladding (eg. Colorbond®) or similar may be used in appropriate circumstances, at the discretion of the DRP.

At the time of assessment if an architectural feature is considered inconsistent with the intended character of the home or the broader community, the DRP may request that the feature be revised or removed to ensure alignment with the Design Guidelines and overall design vision for Round Mountain.

Each covenant application must include an external materials schedule that clearly outlines the proposed materials and their locations, helping to demonstrate the quality and character of the home design.

Feature Materials and Finishes

A minimum of one high-quality feature materials must be selected for all facades facing public areas, to complement the primary building material.

The following are accepted as feature facade materials:

• Natural timber or timber look material
• Brickwork: premium feature bricks with off-white or colour-matched mortar for a maximum 20% of the facade
• Tiles: premium tiles and stone that complement the exterior colour selections for the homes
• Premium feature natural stone
• Large glazing butted windows and large picture windows
• Powder coated screening where it forms a dominant feature of the home

Samples and reference images of selected feature bricks, stone and tiles must be submitted for approval.

Feature materials must be integrated with the primary building material by wrapping them around columns and wall returns by a minimum of 1m.

Unpainted metalwork is not permitted however small elements of Colorbond® cladding may be used in appropriate circumstances, at the discretion of the DRP.

Contemporary window hoods are also recommended to be used if appropriate to support articulating the facade.

At the time of assessment, if any architectural feature appears out of step with the overall character of the home or community, the DRP has the right to require its removal.