The coffee time in the Coffee & Laundry- Laundromat is full of humanization and humanity.

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Walking in the street, it is easy to be attracted by the light-colored wooden frame door of the shop. Looking inside, you will see the barista working in the shop, but on the other side of the store, there are two rows of self-service washing machines. Someone is putting clothes into the washing machine. Then he turns around, buys a cup of black coffee, goes to the end of the shop, sits down, drinks coffee, slides his mobile phone, and waits for the clothes to be washed.

The diversity of coffee compound space reflects the flexibility of Hong Kong people. The combination of coffee shop and laundry is unprecedented in Hong Kong, and baristas have to explain the use of self-service laundry.

Katol, the director of Coffee & Laundry, is a member of the local street art organization Start From Zero. He has always loved wood creation. He and his friends handle all the wooden structures and furniture in the shop, from door frames, glass doors, coffee bars, storerooms, tables, chairs, furnishings, etc., are made of wood, simple but attractive. "from conception to completion of interior design and decoration, it took only more than a month, and the design was made of light wood. The wall is white and the floor is checked with black and white, so the main tone is black, white and light wood, which will not be very complicated. "the black-and-white check of the floor is reminiscent of the laundry in Hollywood movies.

Coffee shop owner Otherway (left) and Start From Zero founder Katol were friends. When Katol wanted to find a partner for the laundromat, Otherway immediately agreed to this interesting and innovative space.

No more indifference.

This kind of coffee shop and laundry compound space, is the first in Hong Kong, seemingly unrelated two things, here, has become natural. In ordinary laundries, the room is illuminated by big white lights and the space is narrow, and there is no place for laundry. In the dark, it is like a glowing box, lifeless and indifferent. People put down their clothes and leave and come back after they are washed. It's a mechanized and functional place. But Coffee & Laundry, on the contrary, has places to sit inside, seats outside the street, small wooden tables for coffee cups or books, and of course, people can buy a cup of coffee from a coffee bar and wait while sipping coffee and watching passers-by on the street, with the jingle of streetcars, laundry has changed from drudgery to a solitary moment where one can calm down and let go.

Many foreigners from Central and Sheung Wan District 1 come to patronize the coffee shop and do laundry.

Katol is responsible for interior design and decoration, while partner Otherway is responsible for the coffee. A few years ago, Otherway pushed a trolley and sold hand-made coffee in different markets. He was very dedicated to the taste and flavor of coffee. It was fun to run a mobile coffee shop, but there was always a time when he finally hit it off with Katol and opened his own coffee shop. "I have been to many places all over the world." I have seen the combination of laundries and coffee shops, but not in Hong Kong, and most laundries have no design at all, wasting some space. "Otherway said.

Refer to the black-and-white floor tiles of the laundry in American movies

In the design, the two also spent a lot of thought, specially built a curved ruler table, and a retractable table, so that people can fold clothes, "and the wooden chair contains water pipes, which can be folded up when the folding table is not in use, making good use of space and convenient for guests to need. "

Manual production in the whole store

Because they are designed and made by themselves, every object and decoration in the store has a story, and it is often in subtle places, such as a wooden coffee bar, which is made of trapezoidal boards with different colors, resulting in a three-dimensional wrong vision effect, and the wood is made of pine wood, durable and not easy to stain. The door number on the glass of the shop and the words "coffee & staff" on the door of the coffee bar are also drawn by hand. "I am persistent in the design of the shop, although it is all subtle things, but someone will always notice that it is the temperature of our shop, hoping to feel humane and humane." "Katol said.

The light box of the coffee shop is made by Katol's friends.

Within an hour of the visit, many people stopped, including elderly people, foreigners, and even mothers pushing a pile of BB carts. Some were curious about what the store did, some even came to the door to ask for details of laundry prices, and of course some people bought coffee. Here, laundry and coffee complement each other. Some people buy coffee because of laundry, while others come because of the coffee shop, only to find that this is also a laundromat. "some guests came to buy coffee for the first two times, and later brought their clothes to wash. He doesn't live around here. We are all very happy. Guests come from afar because they appreciate us. Sometimes when we meet regular customers who live upstairs, they will introduce their families to us. It is actually very simple to be a small shop and has a close relationship with the community. "

Coffee & Laundry

Address: G / F, 1F Queen Street, Sheung Wan