Construction inside of the space began on Monday, and they’ve already made good progress. We are not doing anything major to the space, just making some cosmetic upgrades and moving partition walls. The main items are:

• new floors (wood)
• paint the ceiling earthy green
• new track lights, kill the current lights
• remove an existing partition wall in the back room
• add two 6’x6′ fitting rooms
• paint everything

There will also be some barnwood added to the walls, wood trim all around, and of course, all of the fixturing.

On Monday, they removed the wall in the back room and built the walls for the first fitting room.

This is where the wall used to be.

This is the new wall. The door and window on the red wall are being filled in and that will be a solid wall. The opening on the right will be the entrance to the backroom. You can also see some masking tape on the floor from when we taped off the walls and fixturing plan to make sure we had it nailed down before the sawzall came out.

Immediately inside of the backroom is a short section of “hallway” that is 6′ wide before it opens up to the main storage area. This is looking forward into the store. Obviously, those walls will all be solid!

A day later, the same view shows the carpet completely removed!

The fitting room doors will be made out of barnwood, and the entrance to the back will be left open. We’ll continue the wood floor through the first part of the back hallway so that it’s visually ok. For now, the rest of the back room will remain concrete, although I think we’ll be investing in some carpet squares for a corner of it since that will also be my office!

Now the back is one giant empty room. In 10 weeks, this will be filled with shelves and shoes! The open doorway goes to the “back back”, which has a couple of closets, a small hallway/room, an exit door, and a restroom. We’re not going to do any work back there, and the space will likely just be used to stack boxes before they’re received.

 

The second fitting room was also framed on Tuesday. Both of them are 6’x6′, so all but the tallest people can spread their arms completely out, airplane style, and not touch a wall. We want our fitting rooms to be super comfortable and inviting so that people want to keep trying on clothes!

 

The picture below is looking towards the back of the store and was taken 15-20 feet from the front window. The front doors are to the left behind the camera. There’s a long way to go, but this is huge progress in two days!