Newsletter
The Slab – Issue One
Considering your own bespoke build? Perhaps you’re already working with us and your dream home is being constructed. What you’ll find within these pages supports both scenarios. Offering insight into building styles, designs and materials. Along with legalities and regulations. It’s our goal to keep you well informed, offering continued support. Every home starts with a well-laid slab, so let this be a foundation to our relationship with you.
The Slab – Issue Two
There’s something energising about starting a new year, don’t you think? It’s an opportunity the lay groundwork for the year ahead, to build a solid foundation. Start 2025 with fresh inspiration for tactile bathroom experiences, seamless indoor-outdoor living, and catch up on our latest business news.
The Slab – Issue Three
This month, you’ll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in refined elegance, artisanal details, and harmonious integration. The Paragon team have been busy readying something we’re all truly proud of. A place that offers insight into our past, present, and future endeavours.
The Slab – Issue Four
We’re exploring some exciting topics—passive home design and how it’s shaping energy-efficient living, the latest in smart home technology, and the rising trend of colour drenching interiors. Plus, an update on the Akora estate in Highfields for those planning their next move.
The Slab – Issue Five
Issue Five discusses localised climate zones and what they mean for your build, the latest in tech-friendly white goods, and how soil classification can affect your construction. Plus, an update on the Wirraglen development in Highfields, for those planning their next move.
The Slab – Issue Six
In this issue of The Slab, we explore how textural finishes can add warmth to your home, the evolution of external cladding systems, and what localised character zoning means when building in an established area.
The Slab – Issue Seven
Our ‘Winter Edition’ of The Slab explores, designing a home to suit your localised climate, the quiet comeback of cork flooring, how new building reforms are shaping Queensland’s residential landscape, and new land offerings popping up in Highfields.
The Slab – Issue Eight
In the ‘EOFY Edition’ of The Slab we discuss how Queensland’s new Shared Equity Scheme will help eligible buyers secure their first home, trending materials and design inspiration from the team at Toowoomba Tiles, the latest in smart home AI technology that’s transforming modern living, and exciting new land releases at Wellcamp.
The Slab – Issue Nine
We took out ‘Display Home of the Year’ at the 2025 Downs & Western Housing and Construction Awards! A glowing testament to our team’s commitment, quality craftsmanship and thoughtful design. This month we’re celebrating this achievement alongside current project updates, the resurgence of using bricks and a wildlife focused estate in Highfields.
The Slab – Issue Ten
Winter’s chill is fading and September brings warmth and a fresh sense of optimism. As our gardens begin to blossom, they perhaps offer a metaphor for ideas to bloom? Is now the time for your vision to take root? Join us in our first spring issue and perhaps energise your own ideas to flourish into something beautiful.
Builder Terms
Jargon Cheat Sheet
The terminology we use throughout your building journey, at times, may sound a little foreign. We’ll do our best to use layman’s terms when communicating, but familiarising yourself with some of these will help you gain a deeper understanding of your project.