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23/10/2026

A lot of good rooms are planned around a window.

Where the morning sun comes in, how much summer heat gets through in the afternoon, what you look out at from the kitchen bench. In the Central West, with cold winters and hot summers, window placement makes a real difference to how a home feels. On this home, the corner opens right up. Glass sliding doors run around it onto the paved courtyard, so the room inside and the space outside feel like one. Down the side, long runs of windows let the light well into the house.

Worth thinking about early. A window is a lot easier to move on paper than in a finished wall.

Tablelands Builders | new home builders Bathurst | architectural homes Central West | natural light | residential builders Bathurst | home design

21/10/2026

The hardest part of a heritage renovation is often deciding what not to touch.

Cangoura is one of Bathurst's most historic homesteads, built in 1876 by the Suttor family, which makes this its 150th year. Much of what makes it special is still here: Australian cedar doors, the original staircases, fireplaces and Baltic pine floors. So the new work had to earn its place. The kitchen doesn't try to imitate the old house. Dark cabinetry and a stone island sit under the timber ceiling, looking out through black-framed glazing to the verandah and the paddocks beyond. Outside, the verandah has a new floor under the iron lacework.

Swipe through to see what was kept and what changed.

Bathurst has a lot of buildings like this one. Looking after them well starts with understanding what's already there.

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20/10/2026

Before the plaster, the paint and the finished photo, there’s this.

New wall frames go up inside the existing building, standing under the original roof timbers. Cabling hangs down through the frames, ready to be run to where the switches and power points will sit.
It’s the part of a build that disappears in a few weeks. It’s also where most of the decisions get made: where each wall goes, how the services get through it, and whether everything is straight and square before anything covers it. Get this stage right and the finished room comes together the way it should.

We’ll share the after once the walls are closed in.


Tablelands Builders | Bathurst builders | commercial fit out Bathurst | wall framing | behind the build | building Central West NSW | renovation Bathurst

19/10/2026

Some of the most important buildings in a region are the ones people know least about.

The Central Tablelands Collections Facility in Bathurst opened in September 2022. It holds valuable and fragile collections, archives and objects from the museums and galleries in Bathurst Regional Council’s care, plus collections from smaller volunteer-run museums, historical societies and private collectors across the region.

A building like this comes with a brief most builders never see. There are 955 square metres of fully climate-controlled storage, more that’s temperature controlled, and strict controls on insects, vermin, climate and security, because the building’s whole job is protecting what’s inside it. There’s even a digitisation room big enough to photograph a car.

Most people drive past without knowing what’s in there. It’s worth knowing.

Tablelands Builders | Central Tablelands Collections Facility | commercial construction Bathurst | commercial builders Bathurst | community infrastructure | Bathurst museums | Central West NSW construction

12/10/2026

No two slabs of natural stone are the same, and that changes how a kitchen like this comes together.

These quartzite benchtops are a good example. Quartzite is a natural stone that formed when sandstone was put under intense heat and pressure, which gives it both its hardness and the sweeping movement you see through it.

The pieces arrived on Naked Stone & Co’s A-frame trailer, already cut to the curve of the island. From there it’s careful work: lifting each piece into place with suction lifters and lining up the joins so the movement in the stone carries from one section to the next.

The green tones run through the bench, the splashback and the curved kitchen island, sitting under a softly lit arch with a copper tap finishing it off.

Stone: Sam Gibb

10/10/2026

09/10/2026

Grey gets called safe. Done well, it's anything but.

This home in Windradyne carries the same soft palette from the street all the way through. Light grey render and white trim outside. Inside, pale grey walls, big stone-look floor tiles running from the front door through the living areas, and a grey waterfall island in the kitchen.

In the ensuite, the same family of greys goes floor to ceiling, with a herringbone niche in the shower and black tapware to give it some edge.

When the tones agree with each other, a house feels calm without trying. You stop noticing where one room ends and the next begins.

Tablelands Builders | new home builders Bathurst | Windradyne | interior colour palette | grey interiors | residential builders Bathurst | Central West builders

08/10/2026

Some houses ask you to work with them, not around them.

Brookland Park at Yetholme started life in 1856 as The Australian Inn. A building with that much history deserves a kitchen that feels like it belongs there.

So the cabinetry is panelled and painted in two soft blues, with aged cup pulls, a fluted butler's sink and a brass tap. The rangehood is built out like a chimney breast, with a mantel shelf for the blue and white plates. Even the plinths are finished with a moulded skirting, a detail that suits a house this age.

The modern parts are there too, just quieter: stone benchtops, lighting tucked under the cabinets, and downlights that leave the pendants and the octagonal skylight to do the talking.

Heritage and modern can share a room. The trick is letting each one be honest about what it is.

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