The smaller room of the Birmingham Beadesaurus shop was beginning to look a bit tired having not been decorated since we opened in June 2000, and with the pink room looking so fresh and swish we decided that it was about time we had a refit.
This was no easy feat, as any of you who have visited Beadesaurus know we have stuff EVERYWHERE! This meant having to completely gut the smaller room and remove all the bags, kitty plush and random bits that were all over the walls in order to gain access to them to paint and put up new fixtures. As well as painting and decorating we were shunting great chunks of furniture around and playing our favourite game...moving the glass cabinets full of jewellery, fun. Not!
Before it looked like this.
We started early Sunday morning completely shifting all the shiftable items and painting, starting with a white undercoat to mask the minging orange and dirty blue combination. Rick got manly and chopped the bead shelf in half and moved it to the other wall and the counter got moved to the opposite side. We also put up lots of new 6ft meshing panels to hang our lovelies off. Phew.
Pie ended up with more paint on himself than on the walls!
Same time Monday we were back, this time painting the blue over the white and making the bead trays and counter a delicious shiny red. There was lots of loud drilling and more manly DIY activities.
Then on Tuesday the fun really started. We had to get all of the stock back onto the walls. This entailed unpacking all the boxes we'd put away full of Loungefly bags, Kitty goodies, laces, sale jewellery and adding t-shirts into the small room for the very first time. To top it all off we received a HUGE Hello Kitty delivery full of bags and plush (that will be up on the site next week, gimme a break, I'm tired!)
But it looks FIT. Now all we have to do it change the floor and lighting, most likely after Christmas when all the hubbub of Clothes Show and general Christmas stress is over.
Happy Days!
