This Coffee Shop In A Shipping Container Is Filled With Light Materials To Keep It Bright

October 14, 2021
A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.

Full Fat Design has recently completed Milky’s Cloud Room, a brand new coffee shop in Toronto, Canada, that’s been built inside a shipping container.

A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.

The entire interior was custom designed and fabricated to outfit the interior of a container, while the travertine walls and ceiling were machine sculpted by Marbela.

A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.

The new location features dynamically changing lights and a brew bar for making handmade coffee and tea.

A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.
A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.

The ‘Cloud Room’ earns its name from moving light that collects shadows in the three-dimensional travertine patterns that cover the walls and ceiling, mimicking the shadows of moving clouds across the wall.

A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.

Other fixtures, such as fiber-optic counter lights, were customized to suit the space, while miniature-sized herringbone wood from Relative Space covers the floor, and Travertine shelves complement the walls.

A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.
A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.
A modern coffee shop inside a shipping container has a large bar, herringbone wood floors, and travertine walls.

Fraser Greenberg, founder of Milky’s and partner at Full Fat Design mentions, “Stone was our material choice, because of its age and solemness. Clouds were our concept because of their speed and unpredictability.”

Custom designed travertine walls create unique shadows inside a coffee shop.
Custom designed travertine walls create unique shadows inside a coffee shop.
Photography by Riley Snelling | Architects / designers / project managers: Full Fat Design