Live the life you want the post-80s woman in Dongguan resigned from the bank to open a coffee shop

Her coffee shop is located in the area of Houhuan Road, Yongkou Community, Houjie Town, just like most villagers in Houjie Town. Small residential buildings with three or four stories are arranged one after another on both sides of the road. The pavement along the street is used as a "standard" for small convenience stores, computer maintenance shops, midnight snacks and other fast food restaurants. It is painted with shrimp-red walls, creative 45-degree chamfered walls, triangular embedded glass tiles, and strands of lights lit in front of the back door at night, just like a fairy tale cabin.

Three months ago, this was an ordinary rental room. "the idea of opening a coffee shop has been around for a long time." Li Haiyan has a group of good friends who have known each other for many years, and every year they organize trips to Japan, Denmark, Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries. As one of them loves to drink coffee, every time he goes to a new place, this friend must take other foodie partners to find a local cafe and have a good taste.

Although she is not as infatuated with coffee drinks as her friends, after walking through cafes around the world, Li Haiyan is deeply attracted by those small shops with a relaxed atmosphere and mixed guests. She can't help but fantasize that she can have such a beautiful corner in the place where she lives, so her old house for rent has become the object of her idea.

"I used to work in a bank and I was so busy that if I didn't resign, I couldn't have the energy to open a shop." After 12 years of hard work, her feelings for the unit are self-evident, and her family is also opposed to her giving up her hard-earned middle-level position. After a long balance, Li Haiyan finally chose to resign. "I want to take advantage of the courage to boldly choose the lifestyle I want and fight for it."

Decorate the store with the daughter as the inspiration

It is easy to conceive, but not easy to realize. After all, the lack of relevant experience, only in decoration to make Li Haiyan enough, bearing thickness, cement material, the number of tiles …... Any detail needs to be carefully considered. Taking the paint on the ground as an example, due to the large number of colors and different descriptive words, the decorator misunderstood the "varnish" required by Li Haiyan as a commonly used paint on the floor of the parking lot, brushing the floor of more than 100 square meters of shops thoroughly. Li Haiyan had no choice but to ask the workers to shovel off the entire surface of the ground and paint it again.

And in the storefront decoration, layout, but also painstaking efforts. "A lot of people don't know that the two big-headed dolls they came here to take pictures of are based on my 6-year-old daughter and the son of that coffee-loving friend." The huge doll head portrait hanging on the courtyard wall is made of fiberglass, the bottom of the head is hollowed out, people can stand on the base of the ground, and then put their faces into the baby's head, they can take lovely pictures of anime boys and girls.

In addition to these two "treasures of the town shop", the two high-footed retro chairs by the window of the store are also designed in the image of Li Haiyan's daughter and her good friend's son. Their lively smiling faces are painted on the sky-blue back cushions, blending into warm family elements, enriching the renovation plan of the old house.

The next step is the "gathering people" plan.

After a period of trial operation, this coffee shop has gained the reputation of "Love Cafe". Several neighbors told reporters that there were several stray cats adopted by the shopkeeper and his wife in the cafe, which made people feel warm; in addition, every time she came to the store, Li Haiyan, a "strong girl," always chatted with everyone, and if it was time for dinner, then warmly beckoned everyone to stay and have home-cooked meals. "she is really making a 'home' with love, not a coffee shop with a simple business relationship," said Miss Mo, who often comes to help.

The hardware transformation was successfully completed, followed by a further "gathering of people" plan. Li Haiyan told reporters that because she likes baking and handmade DIY, she expects to make efforts to bring more baking lovers and craftsmen together so that they can share and communicate together and make friends.

"of course, it is not limited to these two. Ideally, different interest groups can find like-minded people here, and then integrate with each other to enrich their own circle. Onlookers who have no intention of joining can also enjoy their own delicacies and relax on their own. " Li Haiyan said that recently she is preparing relevant sharing activities with some floral enthusiasts.