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    Building Vineyard Cafe, Week 10: Floors and Lights

    This week things began to take shape as the lights were built and they began to lay the floor in the front room. They also dug the hole where we will be planting our namesake vines.

    Demolition can turn up some surprising thingsSlumber party: Strange place to leave your kid….Slumber party

    Wood work in the north roomThe front door with stone tiles

    Installing the skirting boardPrototype light design

    Fitting lights in the kitchenDigging the Vine Bed: This hole will contain our namesake grape vines

    Grapevine Bed: Now all we need is some decent soil….Laying the wooden floor: The wooden floor is put down in the front room

    Beam Light: The first light is tested.The Bar Lights

    Bar light close upPillar Light

    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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