By Brooke Aitken Design
The Rozelle Residence gracefully extends a 1920s workers cottage. The idea to create a mezzanine, hosting a new kitchen and dining area allowed for a high vantage point over the surrounding suburbs.
It also created room for a new, spacious bedroom floor level to be developed underneath. Retaining decorative elements of the original era, the flowing kitchen is deco-inspired. Procuring particular art and curating placement drove a large part of the niche detailing, with soft furnishing, subtle hues of blue and burgundy scattered through decor, and tailored rugs rounding out the interior decoration.
The brief beautifully merged the existing client’s furnishings and art with new selections, playfully juxtaposing Scandinavian modernism with contemporary Australian interior design. The result is a space that is both personal and refreshing.
We are architects who believe interior design is an essential part of the design equation for seamless, coordinated and strong conceptual visions.
Brooke Aitken Design is both an architectural and interior design practice that focusses on the combination of both to create beautiful rooms. We are one of the few architectural practices in Australia that can both build and furnish a project. We design from both the external-in and the internal-out, blurring the traditional division between architecture and interior design for a finish that is seamless in vision. We specialise in mid to high-end residential architecture and design but are also well versed in and welcome many other project types. Our preference for architectural projects are ones that extend to the interiors, yet we regularly undertake interior decoration without an architectural requirement.
Brooke Aitken heads a small boutique team of architects and interior designers that are well trained in quality design and construction methods. We enjoy problem-solving and providing our clients with a fresh eye with both professionalism and enthusiasm. We work at many scales, whether it be feasibility and strategic planning for a corporate client or procuring a single item for a residential client. The practice is passionate about providing a design service that best suits the project, the client’s brief, and their aesthetics.
We have a strong contemporary aesthetic that stands the test of time beyond stylistic fashions. We term this 'Soft Modernism'. However, in each project we aim to weave the client’s personality and tastes, which makes each design singular. Beyond aesthetics, our aim is to create livable, sustainable and practical spaces which relate to the brief, budget and site. We concur with the tenets Slow Architecture Movement and believe that renovation can often be better than replacement.
Colour plays an important role as do material and decorative choices, but all are determined by the conceptual design response at the beginning of the project.