That was one harsh winter, huh kids?! We put off any exterior work on the shop until it warmed up. With 10 days to go until opening, we were cutting it close, but we lucked out with one nice day this week and our team of three got the entire front done in just a few hours!

Ok, so we didn’t do any major work since we have a shoestring budget and want to bypass permits. We hung our 4ft sign because anything over 6ft needs a permit. We dry brushed the icky non-antique brick to brighten things up and added a lovely teal to the window sill.

As soon as the paper in the windows came down, people starting peeking in. What we thought was a low traffic block on a dead end street seemed fairly busy. Gotta get used to that feeling of being on display.

Can’t find the “before” shots we took, so here’s the tattoo parlor that was formerly in the space. Yeah, they photoshopped their sign in.