Coffee shop appreciation: The Grounds Cafe, Australia

This simple, comfortable and warm cafe, which makes people feel familiar and friendly at home, is located in Alexandria, Australia, by Caroline Choker.

The cafe was formerly a warehouse and a pie factory in early 1900. The space environment reveals the architectural language rooted in the past, allowing people to feel the beauty of history in a modern way while enjoying delicious coffee and hand-baked delicacies. The interior decoration combines simplicity with industrial raw materials to make the space more beautiful and individual. The designer retains the integrity of the original warehouse. The exposed wooden frame shows a sense of unfinished and open.

The blackened steel frame extends from the ceiling and acts as a separation between the dining area and the service counter, while designers use suspended frames to store items, display decorative elements and put green plants. Below it is a custom wooden furniture with soft leather seats on one side and a function of storing and displaying products on the other. All the different and contrastive elements in the space are carefully planned and carefully concerned by designers, thus creating a rich sense of history and thriving vitality in the space.