Transformed: 12 wonderful warehouse conversions
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Apr 27, 2019
Transformed: 12 wonderful warehouse conversions
History, high ceilings, and high street locations. If cookie-cutter architecture is not your thing, perhaps you’ll be inspired by a warehouse conversion. As seen on Luxury List.
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CBRE Residential Agency North Sydney
Bespoke design can turn a singular space such as a factory, garage or stables into a spacious modern home. Often historically significant, dramatic, and innovative, these showpiece homes have been transformed by some of Australia’s most creative designers. Take a look inside these 12 warehouse conversions as seen on Luxury List and The Home Page.
1. Collingwood button factory
Pictured: 73 Harmsworth Street Collingwood. For sale by Arch Staver and David Sanguinedo of Nelson Alexander Fitzroy. As seen on Luxury List. Image by Nelson Alexander Fitzroy.
From a button factory to a scout hall, this Collingwood property has now been transformed into a deluxe two storey industrial-style abode.
The residence features a large showroom-style master bedroom, stunning atrium-style foyer and a huge living area with a smart granite kitchen.
For more photos visit our listing for 73 Harmsworth Street Collingwood on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 73 Harmsworth Street Collingwood here.
2. FE Shillabeer conversion
Pictured: 3003/668 Bourke Street Melbourne. Sold by Gina Donazzan and Sam Fenna of hockingstuart Melbourne. As seen on Luxury List. Image by hockingstuart Melbourne.
This Melbourne apartment is embedded in the original part of a former warehouse designed by Charles D’Ebro in the Neo Baroque style and built by FE Shillabeer in 1914.
The residence boasts four metre ceiling heights over a voluminous space, with showpiece parquetry timber floors and wall to wall, double hung sash windows which frame a tree-lined aspect to Bourke Street.
For more photos visit our listing for 3003/668 Bourke Street Melbourne on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 3003/668 Bourke Street Melbourne here.
3. Foy & Gibson edge
Pictured: 8/93 Oxford Street Collingwood. Sold by Simon Shrimpton and Danielle Reynolds of Jellis Craig Fitzroy. As seen on Luxury List. Image by Jellis Craig Fitzroy.
Formerly part of the Foy & Gibson complex of warehouses, factories, and showrooms in Collingwood, this contemporary apartment features authentic details such as original brickwork and steel beams.
A flexible multi-level layout blends industrial style with innovative features including the apartment’s showpiece suspended garage and a backlit display case cellar.
For more photos visit our listing for 8/93 Oxford Street Collingwood on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 8/93 Oxford Street Collingwood here.
4. Vogue boot factory
Pictured: 7B Hargreaves Street Fitzroy. Under Offer by Luke Chisholm and Rick Daniel of Nelson Alexander Fitzroy. As seen on Luxury List. Image by Nelson Alexander Fitzroy.
Showcasing inner-city living at its best, this two-level boutique warehouse conversion has been designed around a centrepiece glass-walled courtyard.
Featured in Vogue Living, the timeless ivy-clad residence offers a gallery-style living room and vast second living/dining room with northerly clerestory windows and solid-fuel fire.
For more photos visit our listing for 7B Hargreaves Street Fitzroy on Luxury List here and here.
For more information read our article on 7B Hargreaves Street Fitzroy here.
5. Annandale artist’s retreat
Pictured: 43 Johnston Lane Annandale. Sold by Damien West of McGrath Newtown. As seen on Luxury List. Image by McGrath Newtown.
Once the studio of Archibald winning artist Fred Cress, this warehouse conversion won the 2015 Master Builders Association’s Award for Excellence.
The warehouse aesthetic is created with polished concrete and exposed brick, while soaring ceilings reveal exposed steel and timber trusses and a turntable allows drive in/drive out access.
For more photos visit our listing for 43 Johnston Lane Annandale on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 43 Johnston Lane Annandale here
6. Surry Hills stable
Pictured: 1/113 Cooper Street Surry Hills. For sale by Walter Burfitt-Williams and Craig Donohue of McGrath Edgecliff. As seen on Luxury List. Image by McGrath Edgecliff.
One of only two apartments in a converted stable, contemporary additions have transformed this warehouse residence into a new landmark for inner-city sophistication and style.
Featuring soaring ceilings with original timber trusses, windows and louvres, the home’s vast open-plan living enjoys a private glass atrium and indoor garden.
For more photos visit our listing for 1/113 Cooper Street Surry Hills on Luxury List.
7. Melbourne meets Manhattan
Pictured: 11/115 Oxford Street Collingwood. Sold by Michael Amarant and Liam Carrington Jellis Craig Fitzroy. As seen on Luxury List. Image by Jellis Craig Fitzroy.
Situated in Collingwood's Foy & Gibson warehouse precinct, this 'New York on Oxford' apartment enjoys vast open spaces, bold industrial cues and towering ceilings.
The light-filled home is perfectly located for inner-city convenience, a short stroll to Smith Street trams, cafes and restaurants, shops and supermarkets.
This property was sold in 2017 by Jellis Craig, Fitzroy and more recently in July 2018 by Mason Staver and Rick Daniel of Nelson Alexander Fitzroy.
For more photos visit our listing for 11/115 Oxford Street Collingwood on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 11/115 Oxford Street Collingwood here.
8. Sunset skyline
Pictured: 7 Oxford Street South Yarra. Sold by Michael Ebeling and Holly Gillham of RT Edgar Toorak. As seen on Luxury List. Image by RT Edgar Toorak.
The Melbourne skyline provides a sparkling backdrop to the rooftop entertaining area of this multi-level home in South Yarra, which won the John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture-Alterations and Additions from the Australian Institute of Architects (Vic.) Awards in 2014.
Renovated to maximize light-filled open plan living areas, two of the home’s three double bedrooms feature floor to ceiling timber framed windows overlooking a beautiful vertical garden designed by Eckersley Garden Architecture.
For more photos visit our listing for 7 Oxford Street South Yarra on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 7 Oxford Street South Yarra here.
9. ‘The Courtyard House'
Pictured: 41 Little Victoria Street Fitzroy. For sale by Andrew De Angelis and Arch Staver of Nelson Alexander Fitzroy. As seen on Luxury List. Image by Nelson Alexander Fitzroy.
Transformed from a former barracks garage, this redesigned Fitzroy residence has been designed as two wings overlooking a tranquil landscaped courtyard and linked by imposing galleries.
The elegant home is distinguished by vast high-ceilinged spaces, abundant northerly light and understated natural textures - brick, travertine, Zimbabwean stone and American oak.
For more photos visit our listing for 41 Little Victoria Street Fitzroy on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 41 Little Victoria Street Fitzroy here.
10. Sydney fringe
Pictured: 207/119 No 1 Lacey Surry Hills. For sale by Caroline Fagerlund of CBRE Residential Agency North Sydney. As seen on Luxury List. Image by CBRE Residential Agency North Sydney.
With exposed brickwork and original heavy timber columns reflecting the architecture of the circa 1912 industrial building, this oversized apartment spans 2 spacious levels with enormous rooms, soaring 3.2 metre high ceilings.
Positioned moments from cafes, cool bars, popular restaurants, Central train station and Chinatown on the vibrant Sydney city fringe, the apartment evokes a New York warehouse style ambience with a wonderful feeling of sanctuary.
For more photos visit our listing for 207/119 No 1 Lacey Surry Hills on Luxury List.
11. Cigarette factory
Pictured: 6/7 Drewery Lane Melbourne. Sold by Gina Donazzan of hockingstuart Melbourne. As seen on The Home Page. Image by hockingstuart Melbourne.
Surrounded by trees and bluestone laneways, and with Melbourne Emporium, Melbourne Central and the QV shops, restaurants and cafes just metres away, this converted warehouse apartment is set within the Dovers Building on Drewery Lane.
Built in 1910, the building started its life as a cigarette factory and features soaring concrete ceilings and trademark Turner Mushroom pillars.
For more photos visit our listing for 6/7 Drewery Lane Melbourne on The Home Page.
For more information read our article on 6/7 Drewery Lane Melbourne here.
12. heritage MacRobertson
Pictured: 46/183 Kerr Street Fitzroy. Sold by Arch Staver and David Sanguinedo of Nelson Alexander Fitzroy. As seen on Luxury List. Image by Nelson Alexander Fitzroy.
This 'MacRobertson' apartment was designed by architect Shelley Penn to remain authentic to the heritage building, including original Oregon beams and ceilings, industrial windows and Spotted Gum floors.
With 300sqm of living space, the home offers a versatile floorplan, incorporating a vast studio/gallery with 4.5m ceilings and an expansive living and dining room flowing out to an 80sqm rooftop garden terrace bordered by the building's parapets.
For more photos visit our listing for 46/183 Kerr Street Fitzroy on Luxury List.
For more information read our article on 46/183 Kerr Street Fitzroy here.
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