Product Design
James Hardie
Product Design
James Hardie is the world’s leading producer of high-performance fibre cement building solutions. Hardie™ exterior cladding products open up a world of design possibilities, empowering homeowners and trade professionals to create dream homes of long-lasting protection, shelter and beauty. For decades we have worked closely with the design and building industries to identify modern home designs to inspire homeowners and trade professionals to bring our products to life. With the launch of James Hardie’s Modern Homes Forecast 2024, we have taken our research of contemporary homes to a whole new level. Through this research, we identified seven enduring, popular and emerging Modern Homes that are specific to our unique geographic and cultural context, our temperate weather and the casual, easy-going way we like to live in Australia and New Zealand. We have also produced a Design Handbook for each of the seven Modern Homes design concepts. As well as a style overview and inspiring imagery, each of our individual Handbooks or ‘recipe books’ will detail design features, material and textures, colour palettes, design variations and Hardie™ exterior cladding solutions.