Moving... Moving Designz

For today's post I am going to share my last few weeks with you and along with a look at the new Moving Designz Home & Cottage shop in downtown Charlottetown. 

The date of this picture is September 9.  Anita and I are standing in the new shop space while the ink was drying on my lease agreement.  The new space gives us an additional 1000sq ft of retail space.  As you can see we need to do alot of work and alot of planning on this bare space. 

My target date for the big move is Oct 01 so that we can be open on Oct 12.  That gave us just over a month to pull this move and redesign off.

Moving a business means a "Massive To Do List" and being super organized.

Within 3 short weeks, we (Anita, Ashley and myself) had phones, cable, internet and debit machines arranged and rearranged, movers booked, packing supplies ordered and on hand, customers notified, shipments rerouted, change of address complete, new signage and business cards ordered and delivered, new cheques ordered, A/V equipment taken down and reinstalled, lighting removed and reinstalled, construction on the new space underway, etc, etc.... believe me the list seemed endless!

Packing day and Ashley showed up in her newly revised tee shirt which we all had a good chuckle over.

The final wrap up.... my pretty shop is all packed up and ready to move.

I can't even begin to tell you how much shrink wrap was necessary but suffice to say lots to protect the furniture and accessories.

Also a necessity was lots of caffiene to keep us going. 

We emptied out the store in record time.  It only took the crew of 12 of us 3 hours to be locked and loaded and on our way.

My girls having a little fun.  Anita get a free ride on the wheeled filing cabinet.

I'm polishing off my coffee, this is the last day in this office.  Coffee makes everything better!

Wow it's empty, saying good bye to 3 and a half amazing years at the Summerside shop.

Meanwhile back at the new space, work has been progressing quickly and steadily getting ready for us to move in.

Promising space... must get rid of the yellow and erect walls for the office, warehouse and kitchette.

The walls have now been painted white and to the very left our warehouse demising walls are up and ready to be painted.

The flooring is getting laid and they are working on the electrical.

Still lots to do but the lighting is almost done... We brought our beautiful drum lights and crystal chandeliers from the Summerside shop to be used in the new store.

Moving day and our first load is in... yeah!!!  With more coming in the next moving van....

It took us 6 long days to get things unpacked, organized and redisplayed. 

After a very hectic week we have the shop set up for opening day on Tuesday, right on time.
People have been dropping by and peeking in all week... they're ready for us. Always a good sign :)

The open concept in the new space makes placing furniture a breeze.  The shop looks fantastic!!! We are all so excited to be in this new space.

The diningroom display is appropriately set up for a fall display. 

A huge thank you to my girls Anita and Ashley for all of the extra time they put in over the past few weeks.  We are a great team!

  Additional thanks to my best friend Karen, The Bradshaw Brothers- David and Jason, Dallace, Jeannine, Wendall and Ralph all their hard work on moving day.  And another thank you to Kelly Moorehead who volunteered her time to come and help us set up all week.

We're open for business and looking forward to seeing everyone :)  Stop by and say hello.

Thanks for reading.  Have a great weekend!

Susan

Fresh or Cozy?

For todays post I thought I would share 2 room looks we just finished setting up at Moving Designz Home & Cottage this week.

Room 1 - Cheerful and Bright.  I love the pretty combination of yellow, black, white and turquoise.

The sofa is amazing!  What I really love about it is the tufting and the solid bench style cushion.  The black and white ottoman just arrived, we've been waiting since January for this piece.  The price point is fantastic at only $330.00, it's a bargain!

 

We made the pretty floral accessories with simple glass bowls and forsythia stems.

This table is just off to the side of the sofa.

Room #2 - Rustic "up country".  Combining a clean lined leather sofa with a clean lined slipcovered chair and ultra chic cocktail table.

The colour scheme was inspired by these toss cushions.

Although we are not normally into metal wall hangings we couldn't resist this very fishy wall sculpture.  It was the colourful glass detail that sealed the deal and our buying decision.  

What's your favorite Room #1 FRESH or Room #2 COZY?

Thanks for reading.  Have a great weekend!

Susan

Furniture Love...

As a follow up to my gift show post.... as promised I am posting images of furniture we ordered and/or loved for Moving Designz Home & Cottage.  These are pieces we hand selected from the January furniture show that Anita and I attended.  The stores aestetic and selections are a combination of modern classic and modern contemporary style. 

This was one of the display rooms at the show.  Unfortunately the colour is a little off.  It's very difficult to take a great picture of a darkly lit room.  In person it had deep purple walls mixed combined with white, lucite and lots of sexy black and crystal accessories.

I posted several months ago on rooms that I would love to have as part of my dream house.
Do you remember this table?  I couldn't forget it!

I purchased 2 of these beauties.  One for the store and one for my house.  It is now in my diningroom...

and I absolutely love love it!!!!  My house is almost completed.  I still have a few details to get finished and this table makes me happy.

I found the slatted chairs (as shown above) a little too busy.  Instead we chose 8 of these lovely upholstered dark wood chairs to complement the table in the shop.  The table is a full 6' long with an 18" leaf.  Plenty of room for 8 or more.

We ordered 3 of these tufted leather benches, black, white and brown.  The white and brown arrived last week and we're waiting for the black one to arrive...back orders.  Perfect for hallways, end of beds or as extra seating in your livingroom.

This is a beautiful image of how you can use a bench in your home.  It fits in very nicely in a modern classic home.

We ordered one of these Barcelona chairs for our showroom in a rich chocolate brown leather.  I've been wanting one for the showroom for awhile now.  It should be

arriving any day now.  These chairs are uber comfortable!!!

And another photo for inspiration.

A very sophisticated table collection for livingroom or bedroom or both.  All of these pieces are available in cherry, black or white with brushed chrome pulls.

 

Loving the white.  In fact we used this table collection in one of our design projects last year.

Twin bedroom, Spring 2009 project.

Bedside side chest.

We used the black version of the chest in the master suite.

Inspiration room....

 

I love these chairs.  They are small in scale, perfectly proportioned and very comfortable.

  

 We ordered a charcoal grey sofa too!

This room screen was simply amazing.  I love the circle motif.  I could see this piece mounted to the wall and being used as a queen headboard.

An awesome sideboard.  I wish I had a bigger diningroom... but for someones house this will be perfection.

Love this sofa... paired with...

A very linear cocktail table.  

These pieces combined remind me of this beautifully appointed room.

Oversized canvas artwork.  Perfect over the sofa or fireplace.  Great range of  colour.

These chunky wooden cubes are very versatile.  Paired up they would make a nice cocktail table arrangement.  Could also be used as extra seating, side tables or how about 4 to create a square table perfect for sectionals.

And to finish this post...I need to show off my new boots which were oh so perfect for walking the show.  "Park Boots" from Chinese Laundry.

Thanks for reading.  Have a great week!

Susan