Beautiful things can come from unexpected places… even the old warehouse down the street.
For most people in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, there wasn’t much special about the vacant building, but for a local businessman and architect Chris Hawley, there was a lot of potential. That’s why they decided to turn the 19,000 square feet commercial laundry into a stunning home.
By adapting the structuring into something new, it was saved from demolition and a piece of Fargo history was able to remain. But just wait until you see what the building looks like now.
Hawley to decided to integrate a lavish theatre room with a giant television screen along with sofas and tables. The walls are embedded with a speaker system as well and he calls it the Cedar Room.
He also included a stunning wine storage room with brilliant lighting. It was built by repurposing old windows from the laundry building. Oh yeah, and the wine room is even climate-controlled in order to ensure the assets are always in mint condition.
The incredibly spacious living area is another great feature of the home. Hawley decided to retain the original exposed-wood ceiling and timber-beam framing. He also included a custom made stair leads upstairs.
Another lounging area in the home includes a smaller TV mounted to the wall against a beautiful wooden backdrop. Hawley designed a steel fireplace that also fits perfectly into the room’s aesthetic. The area is spacious enough to host large gatherings and a the doorway towards the right of the fireplace heads towards a suite for guests.
The guest suite has a bedroom, bath and even a miniature kitchen. “We wanted the guest suite to feel both rustic and comfortable, yet elegant,” Hawley says.
According to Hawley, the stair case pictured toward the lower right, “is an engineering marvel. It floats. There aren’t any columns underneath. The client is in the farm-machinery business and didn’t want a straight stair, so it zigzags.”
The second floor area features another fireplace, a kitchen, concrete-block pizza oven, dining table and sitting area. The roofing is also covered to avoid dust or dirt from the old warehouse from falling towards the floor.
The couple’s master suite, located on the second floor, contains another wall-mounted TV along with a fireplace. The sitting area is also nearby a window to allow for the room to be filled with great lighting.
In the house’s lower level, Hawley decided to create a gym that preserves many features from the old warehouse, including the columns and the wall facades. “The client didn’t want us to dance around the old building, but embrace it. And we did,” he said.
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