Don't say you didn't think about brewing a cafe at home.

The warm afternoon sun sprinkled at your feet through the big floor-to-ceiling windows, the cool coffee still smelled faint, Lisa Ono's whispering song echoed slowly in my ear, and the lazy cat stretched and continued to sleep on the high bookshelf-don't tell me, you never had such a dream, you have a small but exquisite cafe, and every day goes by like this. "Coffee Dream" is not only the privilege of literary and artistic youth, but in fact, many times people do not really want to open a coffee shop, but just want to escape pressure, escape from reality, and put the desire to "open a coffee shop" on their own life list. it just makes people numb.

This is actually a psychological phenomenon called "coffee shop hallucination" (c o ffe e s h o p fa l-lacy), that is, most people do not open cafes or book bars for commercial purposes, but shout "open cafes" because they like coffee, reading or other elements of the cafe. Practical questions such as whether they have the ability to run a coffee shop or whether they can make money are ignored. In fact, who has not daydreamed, there is nothing wrong with a "cafe illusion", but if you are told that you can satisfy your "coffee shop illusion" at a lower cost, many people will be interested, right?

To build a family "cafe", you should have your own elements.

The easiest way is to "build" a cafe in your home and decorate a corner of the home to make it feel like a cafe. "it can be a living room, a balcony, a study, or even a bedroom. You just need to find a small space to create this feeling. " Chen Ying, a senior interior designer in Shenzhen, believes that if you want to create the atmosphere and feeling of a cafe, in addition to observing what special elements there are in the cafe around you, it is more important to combine your own actual situation and integrate your personality, lifestyle and lifestyle into the design of the space.

"soft light, a sofa with high comfort, bright floor lamps, bookshelves full of neat books, and so on, are all elements that can easily bring the feeling of a cafe. People who really like to drink coffee like to grind coffee beans by hand and need a lot of utensils, so they may need to turn the kitchen into an open bar with all kinds of coffee utensils. As soon as there seems to be more professional things, the feeling of the cafe naturally comes out. " Chen Ying believes that the "cafe" is an externalized reflection of the way of life, and its owner may be a young literary woman or a bookish intellectual, and the character of the protagonist is the key to determine the final presentation of the "cafe."

Interior and decoration designer Sun L au believes that in addition to personalized settings, no matter what type or style of coffee shop is relatively relaxed, casual atmosphere, to create such an atmosphere, there are some rules to follow.

1. Lighting: it is fastidious everywhere.

There must be natural light or exclusive lighting, and the light should be combined with overall soft lighting and local emphasis lighting, such as using chandeliers to illuminate the table next to the sofa, spotlights to illuminate the console, and so on. "Lighting is the most effective and cheapest weapon to create an atmosphere. Chandeliers, table lamps and floor lights are soft, and the light is projected from top to bottom, which is very suitable for creating the feeling of a cafe." SunLau also believes that the shape of lighting had better be concise and lively, and it is not suitable to use lighting with too complex shape.

2. Space: be careful with modern style furniture

If a corner of the family wants to feel like a cafe, try this: set aside an area, preferably a corner, which doesn't need to be too big, 4-6 square meters. The area can be completely open or semi-open, open can put sofa or leisure chair or not at all, semi-open had better have sofa, use non-backplane bookshelf, table or permeability partition. "if the area is in the living room, in order to make the space appear more spacious, the living room is not suitable to use a large coffee table, but it is best to use several small coffee tables with scattered sofas, the overall atmosphere will come out."

A set of floor cabinets and hanging cabinets are placed at the coffee corner, coffee, snacks and drinks are stored in the floor cabinets, kettles, water sets, coffee machines, mini refrigerators and so on are placed directly on the upper table, while the hanging cabinets store other things or are purely used for decoration. "in addition, the choice of tables and chairs is the most intuitive. Be sure to jump out of the clunky, wooden, conventional sofa or chair and adopt simple and comfortable products with a sense of design. Ikea has many suitable choices." SunLau believes that logs, North American retro or Nordic-style tables and chairs are easier to match and feel more like a cafe, while modern-style furniture may not be particularly suitable.

3. Furnishings: try making wallpaper in sacks of coffee beans

If you want to appear more realistic and professional, the display and collocation of decoration is essential. For example, the area can choose to use appropriate carpets, dark decorations on the coffee table, as well as wall decorations, old photos or movie posters, which are important elements different from other corners of the home. Whether you can successfully present a literary style depends on them.

"another trick is to use sacks of coffee beans to make wallpaper." Chen Ying pointed out that the coffee sack has a low tone and rough texture, and there are clear English or pattern logos about "coffee" on it. Using it as wallpaper is undoubtedly a sharp weapon to enhance the pressure. "you can go to the cafe and ask if there are any unwanted coffee bags, or you can buy them on Taobao. It's very cheap."

Finally, Chen Ying believes that the overall tone should be dominated by American, low and rural style, using small decorations to do some color-jumping collocation, while utensils such as coffee cups, coffee pots and vegetable basin racks are part of the decoration itself. a complete set of coffee utensils can also create a stronger "cafe" atmosphere.