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VELUX SKYLIGHTS SHINE BRIGHT IN CRAFT BREWERY

Harriet and DJ McCready were frequent users of the video store that operated from the heritage building until 2017. They often discussed what they could do with the building once renting movies gave way to online streaming. One day it became reality… BREWING EXPERIENCE DJ has been working in the brewing industry for more than a decade. “Originally I’m from North Carolina and I started as an intern at a micro brewery there. Micro breweries were going gangbusters in the US and...

RENO WITHOUT A RUMBLE…

We stripped a tiny worker’s cottage to the shell… Home decorator Carly Schulz and builder Leighton Brow became household names nationally after finishing runners-up in the first season of Reno Rumble. They now enjoy life as full-time renovators and their latest project was a tiny cottage from 1913 in the Adelaide seaside suburb of Glenelg. 17 VELUX skylights were at the heart of the renovations… LOTS OF CHARACTER, NO LIGHT “We loved the position and the character but there wasn’t...

VELUX TURNS A DARK PAST INTO A BRIGHT FUTURE

The old Darlinghurst Gaol was converted in the early 1920s to become the East Sydney Technical College – now the National Art School. The largest building on the site, the gaol workshops, had been empty since 2005 when major renovations started in 2014. VELUX skylights were an integral part of the solution, explain CEO Michael Snelling and COO Sue Procter… Leaking Roof, Little Light “We are the largest non-university art school in the country and since 2005 the sole occupant of the...