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20 August 2026
Ellendale’s Design Standards help bring the community's vision to life, providing a framework for creating contemporary Australian homes that respond to the landscape while contributing to an attractive and cohesive neighbourhood.
At Ellendale, breathtaking natural surroundings and beautifully designed homes come together to create an address like no other.
Nestled against the backdrop of the South D’Aguilar National Park, just 12km from Brisbane CBD, Ellendale has been carefully designed to complement its remarkable setting. Tree-lined streets, premium homes and an abundance of nature corridors and recreation space create a community where it’s hard to believe you’re just outside the city.
Ellendale’s Design Standards help bring this vision to life. They provide a framework for creating contemporary Australian homes that respond to the landscape while contributing to an attractive and cohesive neighbourhood.
Importantly, they’re not about making every home look the same. They’re about creating a shared standard of quality while giving you the opportunity to build a home that reflects your lifestyle and makes the most of this naturally beautiful community.
Why does Ellendale have Design Standards?
A beautiful neighbourhood is about more than individual homes. Façades, landscaping, fencing, materials and the way each home presents to the street all contribute to the character, quality and lasting appeal of a community.
Carefully formed by nature, the Ellendale masterplan embraces 91 hectares of nature corridors and recreation space, with premium homesites nestled amongst tree-lined streets. It’s a remarkable setting that inspires an equally considered approach to modern Australian living.
Ellendale’s Design Standards help protect this vision. By setting a shared benchmark for quality, design and presentation, they help ensure each new home complements the natural surroundings and contributes positively to the premium character of the wider community.
For homeowners, there’s added reassurance in knowing the care and investment you put into your own home is supported by the same considered approach across the neighbourhood. Maintaining this shared standard helps protect the quality, character and ongoing desirability of Ellendale as the community continues to grow.
The result is a neighbourhood that feels breathtaking from every angle, and one you’ll love coming home to for years to come.
What do the Ellendale Design Standards cover?
If you’re planning to build at Ellendale, it’s important to become familiar with the Design Standards and discuss them with your builder or designer early in the process.
The standards guide a range of considerations that can influence the overall appearance of your home and its relationship with the surrounding streetscape.
From architectural design and external materials to landscaping, fencing and other elements visible from the street, each detail plays a part in creating a considered and welcoming neighbourhood.
Landscaping is particularly important at Ellendale as the natural surrounding is such a fundamental part of the community, thoughtfully designed gardens can help soften streetscapes and strengthen the connection between homes and their leafy surroundings.
Together, these details help create a community that feels unmistakably Ellendale, contemporary, elevated and naturally beautiful.
The Ellendale Design Rebate
Adhering toEllendale’s Design Standards may also come with an added benefit.
Depending on your contract, you may be eligible to receive the Ellendale Design Rebate once your home, front landscaping and fencing have been completed in accordance with the Design Standards.
It’s a welcome reward at the end of your building journey, but the benefits extend well beyond your own homesite.
Every beautifully finished home, landscaped garden and considered streetscape adds to the character of Ellendale. Together, they help create the premium, naturally beautiful neighbourhood residents are proud to come home to.
It’s this shared commitment to thoughtful design that helps make Ellendale breathtaking from every angle.
To learn more about the Ellendale Design Rebate and your eligibility, contact customerserviceqld@cedarwoods.com.au.
Start planning your Ellendale home
Building at Ellendale is an opportunity to create a home that feels distinctly yours, while making the most of a truly unique natural setting.
With a range of traditional, split and sloping homesites, Ellendale inspires bespoke modern Australian homes designed to respond to the landscape. Depending on your homesite, that could mean embracing an elevated outlook, creating a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor living, or finding new ways to bring the surrounding greenery into everyday life.
