"To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" Thomas Edison

Today we visited Café la Huila, the coffee shop of a friend. She set it up with a few friends with a budget of close to zero. The food was really good, but it was the decor that I loved. The bar consisted of three metal barrels with a glass top. The tables were made out of rolled up magazines; chandeliers made from plastic bottles stuffed with sweet wrappers; chairs made from egg cartons. As I'm writing this it sounds like junk - but it wasn't - it looked really good. I think about the hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on decorating classy cafes, and I compare it to this cozy joint - made from waste and ingenuity.