[MOD] Café & Bike shop 31026 into a modular building (WIP)

Hi folks,

I recently purchased the Café & Bike shop 31026 since I really love the colours used in this set.

I had quiete a lot of fun to build it but in the end, it wasn't a surprise to find it small compared to a modular.

I decided to mod this building so it would become a modular one. Those are the requirements for the MOD :

1. This should fit on a 32x32plate but it should also include a large café terrasse in order to place it at one end of a building row
   
2. This should reuse all the great color parts of the set (especially the dark red, te dark blue and the medium blue parts)
   
3. This should be a Café with an appartment on top of it
   
4. This should be the same size as the Pet shop
   
5. This should use only regular bricks as additional parts
   

So i decided to identify my favorite features of the set and to keep them as they are (some window frames, pieces of furnitures, the ATM...)

I parted out the rest of the set and started clicking bricks.

I ended up to this. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough tiles to make a proper terrasse and sidewalk but I'll fix this ASAP. This is still a WIP but it's notthat bad. Again, the real challenge was to keep as much parts as possible from the set and to add only basic bricks.

Here are some pictures. I know the red base plate is ugly but it's the only one I had ! Even if it will be covered with tiles, I'll change it for a grey one.

So this is a Café (some more café tables will be added later on on the terrasse) with a 2 storries appartment on top of it. There is also what we call in Paris a "Velib" stand on the sidewalk (those are some self-service bikes you can rent with your bus card and this is VERY convenient !), some kind of roof terrasse and a bit of furnitures in the appartment (kitchen, angle couch, piece of modern art, lamps ...)

Using limited parts was very challenging but also very fun. It's always cool find out solutions with creative building technics :).