chouxchouxbedoo: Coffee Shop Snippets #8 Leaps & Bounds

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Coffee Shop Snippets #8 Leaps & Bounds

It's been about two weeks since I gave you a sneaky peek inside and so much has happened! We've gone from bare plastered walls and concrete floors, to painted walls and ceilings and wooden flooring. We now have lighting in too. We've gone for a mixture of low voltage down lighters and some bigger lights that have a daylight effect so we can switch around what we use depending on the natural light coming in from outside.

I got hands on and did some of the painting, including the old fireplace we managed to keep. It's now had a lovely coat of black enamel and looks loved again!

Tables have been purchased and the tops are being sanded and stained to match the floors and counters. I'm pleased to say we managed to get recycled ones along with some recycled Bar chairs, for the breakfast bar and had them re-upholstered. We're quite proud of the fact that all of the furniture in the shop is recycled or reclaimed.

We've had a fair few deliveries over the past couple of weeks, ranging from small not very exciting items to our gorgeous patisserie cabinet and ice cream freezer and we've also managed to get a supply of some premium soft drinks. Not only are they great quality, but they're produced in the North (North East so not quite local but still produced closer to home than most soft drinks) but they are coming from a small local independent supplier no more than a mile or two away from the shop.

The phone line is now in, but I won't give you the number as we don't yet have a phone!

So I'll leave you with the pictures. if you have time go back over some of the old snippets and see the difference, I have to, just to remember what it looked like to start with!