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Trend Ideas for Your New or Remodeled Coffee Shop

Admin • Feb 02, 2020

Despite the timeless nature of the coffee shop, coffee shop culture has changed throughout the years. New patrons have their own preferences in every aspect of the café experience, including its design.

So if you're going into the coffee shop business, or you want to remake your current café to attract more customers, consider some of the following design trends.

Themed Design

Entrepreneurs recognize that coffee shops have the potential to provide a booming business. So, new or remade coffee shops are prolific. You want your coffee shop to stand out from this crowd. One method of achieving this ideal is with themed design. With this method, you'll choose a theme and apply it to the décor and even the construction of your building.

The Cadogan Café in London offers a good example of this practice at work. The engineers wanted to create a space consisting of spirals. They designed the building itself so that it didn't require any horizontal mullions, which allows the curvature to follow through the whole building. What's more, all the seating and even pillars feature some arching to create the sense of a spiral.

Photo-Ready Décor

In a similar vein, your décor should be unique. Indeed, it should transcend simple uniqueness to be photoready. Most of your potential patrons will have a smartphone, and many of them will want to take selfies or other pictures to post to their social media pages. If you truly want your coffee shop to be trendy, you'll need to adhere to this function.

One method of creating photo-ready décor comes in your color palette. You want colors that complement each other so they look good in pictures. You can combine this idea with noteworthy wallpaper, statement wall décor, or other photographable backgrounds.

When it comes to the actual layout of your coffee shop, pay a little attention to what will be in the background. You don't want the dishwashing area or bathrooms to be right next to your photo-ready spot. Try to design the layout so those background areas are apart from high-use spaces.

Multi-Use Spaces

Some café patrons want to sit alone while sipping their drinks and reading on their tablets. Others want to get together with a friend or two to catch up on life. Still others want to expand their circle of friends or engage in study groups while they enjoy their coffee-based drinks. So, your coffee shop's design should feature spaces for multiple uses.

A good option is to start with an open-plan design. Such an open plan will allow you to layout furniture that encourages communal meetings. However, you can also plan for built-in storage, such as floor-to-ceiling shelving, to create spaces for patrons who want more privacy. Likewise, include coffee counters for the solo coffee drinkers.

Dedicated Order and Pickup Locations

One design principle that's always in style is the facilitation of crowd flow. Patrons will quickly become tired of coffee shops where they always have to wait in line or shuffle around to get out of the way. So, your café design should accommodate this flow.

Going back to the different ways people enjoy their coffee shop experience, you have to plan for another group of patrons: people who enjoy calling in orders or using a third-party delivery system. You'll have better facilitation of traffic flow if you keep the pickup area separate from the ordering location.

Sustainable Materials

Sustainability is an important buzzword in building design. An increasing number of consumers are basing most of their business decisions on whether said business is using sustainable resources or practices.

To that end, recycled materials are very popular. You can find beautiful hardwoods and masonry from old buildings. As a boon, such recycled materials are usually high-end yet affordable because they're used.

Another option is to choose resources that are sustainable from the get-go. For instance, bamboo is a renewable resource that you can use for walls, floors, furniture, and even window coverings.

Pay attention to the current trends in building design so your coffee shop stands out. Let United Constructors of Texas provide the ground-up or remodel construction for your café.

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