Putting together a Yarn Shop...

Doesn't that sounds exciting?????

Let me tell you, it is!

But it is also something stressfull, full of details and things to do... it's something big... that one, as a customer, doesn't realize when enter that paradise of textures and colors that is a yarn shop.
As I've told you in previous post I'm getting more and more involved with my LYS. I've become "part of the staff", I give crochet classes and this days I've been working in crochet samples of sweaters and hats for the shop. And for the past couple of months I've been helping to put together a yarn shop, as the shop is moving to a new location...

It was around May when the owner of the shop, Mary Ann, told me that she was considering to rent a bigger space that faces the street (the shop now is in the inside of a Mall) and move the shop over there... after a couple of weeks of working with the lease and its terms, she signed the contract and the adventure began....

She got the key for the new space at the begging of June... the place had been a guitars store before, so it had little practice rooms on the side, all the walls cover with slat boards...

... and a wall in the middle that she decided to take out.

All the walls free of slat board were painted in white, the bathroom was all white,

the rooms all white, all but the office, which was a dark teal.

It had a beautiful front facing the street with a nice wood space to display things... 

So the shopping and planing began while the construction continued... and we had uncountless trips to hardware stores, Target, Menards, Good Will and practically every thrifth store in town looking for the right tables, shelves, accesories, paint, clocks, mirrors, etc...
We took out some of the doors of the practice rooms...

I helped her to look all around for all kind of things, decide the final look of the sign, the lights, the cabinets...

She ordered 30 wood cabinets, of 9x9 cubes of those "assemble your self" kind from Lowes...

You can see the pile of boxes to the right!!! can you imagine assemble 30 of those??

We had a painting day with the regular knitting group... a group of 8 wonderful ladies that helped with the painting, while Mary Ann and I assembled and assembled cubes...

So, as you can see, the chosen colors were orange and green... we did the bathroom, the outside of the rooms, primed the office.... uff, more and more... maybe you can see at the back of the last picture with the orange rooms, there's a "kitchen" at the end??? that wasn't there either!!!

We found the counter with the sink and had it installed and the white cabinets mounted in the wall...

I really wish I had tell you day to day all about this adventure, I'm not sure why I didn't... but I'll tell you more another day... I'm sure you're tired of reading by now, and I have to run...

Hope you had enjoy it so far!!!

See you soon!

S.