Office

Facing another courtyard, an office nook features a Caesarstone countertop and walnut built-ins by Austin Wood Work.

Mike chose a chic fixture from In Common Width to illuminate the space. “They’re wonderful handmade lights,” he says. A light boucle stool from CB2 makes for a perfect perch.

“Clients come in, and we make them coffee,” Shivley explains. “We use it as an opportunity to slow the pace, to chit-chat and catch up on how their day has been. It takes the formality out of meetings, to make it really social.” Instead of a stuffy atmosphere, “we're just in a coffee shop catching up,” he says.

Custom glass and iron doors, fabricated locally, section off a conference room in the cafe. “It was designed to be something that could be open to the public, but it’s wonderful that it’s not,” Mike says. “I get my own little toy coffee shop to play with.”

The café’s polished concrete floors are ground down to “expose some of the aggregate,” Mike says. Vintage leather chairs balance a custom banquette, upholstered in a forest-green wool felt by Kravet.