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    Vineyard CafeChina & Beijing

    Building Vineyard Cafe, Week 9: Interior Woodwork

    This week, while the bar and wine rack took shape inside, demolition of the buildings to our north commenced outside.

    The front doorRadiator unitsThe front door

    SinksThe back room from the courtyardFront room wall

    Kitchen unitThe Pizza Room

    Back room doorPainting window framesBuilders

    The wine rack takes shapePizza Room

    Wine rack in placeThe bar

    The door to the courtyard from the front roomThe bar

    CarpentersShelves

    The heating roomPizza Room

    The Front room from the courtyardInstalling the cupboard around the power boxes

    Tiling the porch roofThe front door

    Laying the floor in the back roomThe pizza counterWine rack with veneer added

    The side street to the area being demolishedDemolition behind the restaurant

    The Mannequin MassacreDemolition behind the restaurant

    Demolition behind the restaurantDemolition behind the restaurant

    Demolition behind the restaurantDemolition viewed from the kitchen roof

    Choosing the location of the airconWill examining the bathroom roof

    Will on the roofHutong roof tops

    Restaurant RoofRestaurant RoofHutong roof

    Courtyard from the roofPizza room extractor fans from the roofRestaurant Roof

    More photos from 30 June

    These 6 photos never made it into the café’s online albums; they turned up in a folder of my old Vineyard Cafe files.

    This post first appeared on the Vineyard Cafe blog as a photo album in July 2006. Vineyard Cafe was the restaurant I opened in a Beijing hutong in 2006 with Will and Xuduan, and while we built it we kept a blog and a weekly photo album of our progress. The blog is long gone, so I have brought it back here. See the whole Vineyard Cafe story.

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