Saturday, January 10, 2009

Re-Opening

Monday, January 5th was our scheduled reopen and so reopen we did, with only half the salon painted and only three beds cleaned and ready to go.

Jeremy and I went in early to rehang doors on the three rooms that we had ready. We kind of figured the customers might want doors and handles that locked..haha.

Oh and naturally we didn't have any phone or internet because the previous owner went ahead and had everything disconnected and with the holidays the earliest the phone company could come out and turn things back on is Friday. No phone means no Credit Card machine and surprisingly the computer system for the tanning beds didn't work either and it is kind of hard to get fixed without phone lines or the internet. Luckily we were still able to turn the beds on with the remote timer system and we had to go old school and keep lots of spreadsheets with info on them. Again why would anything be easy or work right.




This is the biggest and fanciest bed that we have. It is really pretty nice, built in fans and radio.








Throughout the week Wendy would come in when she had time and help me paint trim around the doors and the floor. I was a little unsure of the yellow color that we picked for the hallways until we got the brown done, now I really like it. Nice contrast.

Jeremy also worked on getting the other three rooms with beds in them painted throughout the week. By Friday night he had them done and we were ready to clean the beds and change bulbs in three of the beds becuase again the previous owner had not maintained things as she should have. We also got our delivery of bamboo at the end of the week, so stay tuned for bed cleaning (some great pics), bulbs changing and bamboo installation.........

2 comments:

Becky ♥ said...

ohhh I love the final out come. That looks like it was all a lot of work, but definitely worth it. I love seeing before and afters like this. Good luck in your new venture!! :)

Anonymous said...

wow, the brown doors really do set off the other colors. glad you are getting to the finish line. it will be worth it when you are all done. can't wait til summer to see it in person.
love you both,
mom and pops