Hong Kong Sai Kung [dwelling Cafe] three floors but 495 feet to build a coffee shop

Hong Kong Sai Kung [dwelling Cafe] three floors but 495 feet to build a coffee shop

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Reporter: Rong Huixin / Photography: Huang Ziwei

"I often hear someone say outside the door," do you want to come in? "well, this is not a coffee shop, but my friends like to call me when they pass by Saigon.

Ask me if I have opened the door! EL, the barista, lives in a village house in Sai Kung, an orange three-story house with "coffee" hanging at the door.

The house number, the window is pasted with the word "wifi cafe", and a small Indian coffee tree is planted next to it, and the smell of coffee comes from time to time, for the first time.

Those who pass through this alley will surely think that this is a hidden world coffee shop that gives the villagers a cup of coffee and a rest. Although living here is not absolutely leisurely.

Because from time to time, some people "come to the door", but EL enjoys it.

This "coffee shop" is actually a stacked nest, each floor is only 165 feet, the third floor is only 495 feet, the ground floor is the living room, the second floor

It's the bedroom and the kitchen on the top floor. "although the place is small, the layered place is more useful, and I don't have to bother with the room. I put all my mind on the ground floor."

In the living room, I hope I can walk into the coffee shop as soon as I get home. "

Many people in ■ don't take their work home, but barista EL is happy to let coffee completely take over their homes.

Refer to the English coffee shop

He has been in the industry for ten years, working from part-time to full-time, and EL has won the Barista Authority Award (Grand Barista Championship2010).

After the championship, he started a coffee school to teach people to make coffee, also worked as a consultant for other coffee shops, and started his own coffee shop business in the past year.

Many people don't bring their work home, but EL completely takes over their own home with coffee. "I like the atmosphere of Cafe in England very much. It's simple."

The stone walls, daytime flowers and wooden furniture, a professional coffee machine and the skilled gestures of the barista naturally attract people to go in and patronize. "

So EL's home also uses this concept, the gray stone wall of the living room is only covered with varnish waterproof and anti-fouling, and the combed side is made of brown imitation brick.

Block layout, "Dad is engaged in decoration, always feel that not sweeping paint and laying brick walls is not good, now completed, brick walls can also hide wires, everyone thinks it is very" positive "!

The staircase left a small concave and convex edge after demolishing the wall. EL only smoothed the edge with a stone brush to make a small interval effect, which is also one of his most satisfied corners.

EL painted the outer walls of village houses orange, which is even more eye-catching among the numerous village houses. Each floor is only 165 feet, and the total of the three floors is only 495 feet.

■ top floor is the kitchen, a row of windows and open design, is the most open part of the house!

The second floor of ■ is the bedroom, mainly purple, carrying out the mysterious atmosphere of dark underground.

The middle school kills the school and holds the treasure.

Many of the wooden furniture in EL's home are picked up or processed with discarded items. Some of the classic school chairs are when the middle school where he attended was killed.

He specially went back to his alma mater to pick it up; another wooden cabinet and several coffee tables were moved back from the hair salon. "my wife and I both like old things, when we go shopping

Seeing a hair salon closing down, he went in to see if there were any old household items that could be recycled. Sure enough, he found these pieces of wooden furniture, each costing several hundred yuan.

So I bought it. "in addition to environmental protection and saving money, the processing of old goods also creates more cafe feelings for EL bedrooms." these buckets were originally filled with coffee.

Beans, I picked it up from the company and added a card to carry the goods, and it became this coffee table. "

■, the high school chair, was picked up by EL's alma mater when he was killed in the middle school. It was free and environmentally friendly.

Red Arrow hanging Wall frame ■ bought it at the weekend market in Portobello, England, full of EL coffee supplies, about $500.

■ EL's father engaged in decoration, always felt that it is not good not to sweep the paint and lay the brick wall, now that the brick wall is finished, the brick wall can also hide wires, which is a pleasant surprise!

Favorite old French kettle

EL, who likes English style, also chose to visit Britain and France for his honeymoon. In addition to buying a lot of decorations at the must-go Harrods department store, Portobello

The weekend market is also the focus of EL and his wife, "there are a lot of things are bought without thinking about where to put them!" Coffee at the bottom of the stairs

This red arrow rack of corner is one of them. It was mentioned by the London hand and then brought back to Hong Kong. Fortunately, it was just right to hang it on the wall, and the atmosphere also matched. "one

The British flag felt, large and small British road signs and numbered house numbers on the imitation Victorian leather comb are all trophies of EL, and among them

His favorite is the old French coffee pot with blue lake water. "this is a 1930 coffee pot made exclusively for filter coffee. Now it's inside."

The gallbladder metal is still very new, in fact, it can still be used to make coffee, but the voltage is not right, so it is not used, it is put in a list of coffee utensils.

Oh, just watch. "Coffee bar tables inlaid with coffee beans, each Espresso cup on the decorative shelf, latte, cappuccino, mocha

Coffee sticker-Coffee is the element that makes him love his work and life.

■ friends gave him a pair of court-style single seats as wedding gifts. The second-hand coffee table bought for the hair salon is about $300.

Next to the ■ staircase is coffee corner, and a large mirror is converted from an old picture frame at a cost of only $600.

■ picked up the bucket of coffee beans and added a card to carry the goods to make the coffee table.

(responsible Editor: Nicole Ou)