He has several centuries on his shoulders, and today the so-called has returned to the fore literary coffee.
Anyone who is opening one, after going through a complex bureaucratic process, wonders how to decorate a small room all dedicated to the fascination of books.
The inevitable protagonists of a bar crossed by the sprites of novels, stories and essays are bookcases, armchairs, comfortable chairs and tables.
In this article, we summarize what is a literary cafe, how to open it, organize it, and furnish it, trying to contain expenses.
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What is a literary cafe
By literary café we mean a place where the classic drinks of a café are offered together with the possibility of consulting and reading books.
Some literary cafes are also independent bookstores, where a bookseller or a bookseller recommends the most suitable novel for readers and female readers.
Other venues of this kind, dedicated to the suggestions of stories, offer a Bookcrossing well stocked or simply read and consult on site, like a library.
They are places of the heart which make the delicate pleasure of immersion in the pages available to the public, in a well-kept environment, where the slowness of literature intoxicates.
To give life to a literary café you need to arm yourself with patience and tenacity due to the investment and bureaucracy to deal with.
How to open a literary café
Who wonders how to open a literary cafe must take into account many choices to make, a series of bureaucratic tasks and a considerable expense.
In fact, a key point of the matter is to answer the most uncomfortable question there is: how much does it cost to open a literary café?
It is estimated that theminimum investment to undertake a commercial activity of this type either of 80.000 €.
The bigger things are done, the more the costs increase.
One area where you can try to save is furniture: for example, our fiberglass wallpapers allow you to cover and recover old furniture.
The documents needed to start a literary café
To start a literary café, it is necessary to go through the various steps imposed by the bureaucracy to obtain:
- la HACCP certification;
- le authorizations from the local health authority which certify compliance with current health and hygiene standards.
The acronym "HACCP" stands for "Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points", which can be translated into Italian with "risk analysis and critical control points".
This type of certification is necessary for anyone working in the food sector and concerns the good practices necessary to guarantee food safety.
How to organize a literary café
The first step in opening a literary café is find the right place where to set up bookcases and a counter for cappuccinos and espressos.
The ideal would be to find a warm and welcoming place in the center of your town, but such an advantageous location requires a greater outlay than one in the suburbs.
In the chosen rooms there must be enough space for a bar counter, with a possible showcase of sweets and snacks, many bookcases and many tables with comfortable chairs and sofas.
The books can also be placed in full view on low shelves in the center of the room where you can show the entire cover by arranging them in small piles.
Furnishing a literary café: the atmosphere is everything
Once you've found space for the essentials of a literary cafe, it's important to ask yourself how to furnish the small place to create a unique atmosphere.
The goal is to create a pleasant, well-characterized environment where male and female readers feel comfortable reading while sipping a hot drink.
To weave a red thread of images that create a story or a set of harmonious graphic references, our fiberglass wallpapers.
All our coverings can be customized with graphics designed and created by top-level designers.
These are coverings suitable not only for walls and ceilings, but also for the furniture itself.
Recovering old furniture to furnish a literary café
Our Tecno Fiber technical covering fabric allows you to renew furniture that is a few years old, still robust, but no longer attractive due to the passage of time and fashions.
It perfectly covers the piece of furniture like a second skin and is decorated with your favorite graphics.
Thus, similar designs for settings, scenes or chromatic tones can decorate table tops, seats, sides of bookcases, front of the counter.
Even the fabric of sofas, loveseats and poufs is suitable to become a precious ornament thanks to ours art prints.
In this way, a perfectly harmonious space is obtained, in which a graphic theme makes the atmosphere unique and unforgettable.
