A small Montreal apartment that doubles as a monthly café
Vic hosts a monthly café for friends from her Montreal apartment, surrounded by her own paintings, film cameras and thrifted finds.
Once a month, Vic turns her Montreal apartment into a café for her friends. She calls it Saturday Café. Her friend Kate bakes, and a specialty latte goes on the menu. Everyone gathers around the dining table, pulling up extra chairs as needed.
The coffee corner keeps growing. Her boyfriend thrifted a Breville espresso machine for $50. Tiles she brought back from a solo trip to Lisbon sit beside it. She added a kitchen island because the kitchen had so little counter space, and it holds the pastry spread on café days.
Vic paints, and almost all the art in the apartment is hers. She studied photography and shoots on a Nikon FM2, one of several film cameras on her shelf. Fish turn up throughout, including a sardine nod to her Portuguese roots.
Her pink sofa cost $75 secondhand and moved with her from her last apartment. In true Montreal style, the living room connects straight to the bedroom. She swapped the bedroom light for an IKEA paper shade and uses lamps everywhere else, because she hates overhead lights.
