firefly facelift: before and after

After painting almost everything, re-purposing and tossing out some old display pieces and also bringing in some new… I believe we have achieved the fresh look we were going for at our Berkley store.  Of course one of my favorite parts of those ‘makeover shows’ is the classic before/after shots so here are a few of ours…

We kept our crazy mannequins and positioned them so they were spilling out ‘paint’ from a few of our empty cans.  The dresses and ‘paint’ all were created from plastic party tablecloths.  (LOVE the color selection they have of these at Party City)

We said goodbye to almost all of our painted pine boards we used for shelves and replaced them with hutches, leaving room for small wall vignettes in between.    And since we loved how the marquee letters SHINE looked at our new Ann Arbor shop, we decided on adding SMILE to Berkley’s store-scape.

We also got rid of all our card holding eaves troughs and moved most of the cards to acrylic spinners.  This allowed room to add a retro vinyl love seat and more crates of cool finds for the guys.

The big front table and hanging window were replaced by a trio of industrial spools and giant tree budding with pretty paper lanterns.

A wall of doors was also removed from the front area which opened up the space nicely.

We moved the bath and body section to where the pet goods used to be and opened up our jewelry and accessories section by removing the hutches and windows.  This also allowed room for our cool new candy display.

We re-purposed all the doors that used to be walls and made them self-standing cubes that display anything from handbags, jewelry, books, tiles and more.

The new pet table is where all the a.i. paper goods used to be displayed and our jewelry has moved out of the hutches and onto table tops.

By removing a few of our kitchen hutches we created a eye-catching wall-o-crates that display goods & recipe books very nicely.  The baby section also got streamlined a bit.

And of course there is the girly room, check-out, quirky & cool products too… but you’ll just have to come visit us soon to see those sections.  We hope you enjoy our firefly facelift!  Now I need to take a nap or maybe escape to a sunny island for a bit… and then start to think about a small Rochester re-do!

You know us fireflies… always flying forward ;-)  Thanks for following us through our facelift!

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