Masterful Restoration of a classic Victorian terrace

David Aitken Design Plan view Victorian terrace

This Restoration
beautifully shows a deep understanding of the structure, materials
with the original methods of construction

David Aitken Design Perfect Vignette

David Aitken view through new glass roof

The original house was a late Victorian single storey brick dwelling, constructed early 1900s, which, fortunately, had effective damp proof courses and cavity wall construction that protects against rising damp and internal wet walls. The high quality bricks were fired at the local St Peters brick works.

The tessellated tiles on the front veranda floors are a high quality imported English tile with Welsh slate that were lovingly cherished by the previous owners.

David Aitken Design Kitchen

Victorian Terrace Conversion

Architecture & Design

Architecture should speak for its time and place but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

SMH Victorian Terrace renovation Alexandria, Sydney.

Expertise & Experience

David Aitken is an ex-Theatre Designer, retired architect, Urban Designer and Planner.  David established himself as a registered practising architect, working both for individual clients and as a subcontract architect for various firms including apartment and single housing designs for the Department of Housing.
In 1994, David enrolled in the Masters in Urban Design course at the University of Sydney and completed all the design components of the Design Studio.  David also worked as a Planner for a number of years before retirement with Ku-ring-gai, Waverley and, finally, Leichhardt Councils.  He also designed and built his own home in Alexandria, Sydney, converting a single storey terrace to three storeys. (Link to Alexandria Terrace House).
David recently designed and built a beautiful holiday cabin on a five acre grassy woodlands block on the NSW Far South Coast.

This website shows some of David’s works from his earlier theatre designs to his
more recent architectural and urban designs.

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PO Box 1018 MORUYA
NSW 2537, Australia

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