Starbucks, an international coffee shop chain, seeks to unify, as do many world-famous companies. Its interiors are created according to standard designs. But this does not apply to all. For example, in the Japanese city of Kyoto, the place for a coffee house was a house built at the beginning of the 18th century.
This building once served as a tea house, but in 2005 Starbucks bought it, refurbished it, and set up a coffee shop here. The house was renovated very carefully, with the closest proximity to the traditional buildings of the Old Town,
writes Plain magazine.
The luminous logo of the coffee shop chain was replaced with a green banner with the company symbol. The interior was brought closer to the atmosphere of an old tea house — visitors should take off their shoes at the entrance and sit on soft silk pillows. But, in spite of this, they did not refuse the tables that were usual for coffee houses.
On the territory of a cozy garden. Apparently he was made to calm the nerves that could excite coffee.
Recently, Mark and Karen Bartkevichus, residents of the state of Tasmania in Australia, turned
an abandoned substation in the house of your dreams. The transformation of an abandoned building took them three years. The Bartkevichus family tried to preserve the historical appearance of the building, giving it a touch of modernity.
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