Oy Vey!! Q&A!! Tuesday!! and Finishing Amy's Shop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Gizmo Tech Support

Welcome to the 7th question part of OY VEY!! Q&A!! Tuesday.

This is how it works.....

On the first Tuesday of the month

You ask some design questions,

and I answer them for FREE!!!!

Just remember-----

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(Just sayin')

So ask your question at the end of this blog post.

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I can't believe how much fun I've had helping Amy at her new shop

Maison Decor.....

I love working when I'm not getting paid.

It takes all the pressure off me.

No bad attitudes.....

No client wondering about any hidden agenda.....

Just the

pure joy

of design.

remember this space?

it used to look like this....

When I first started helping our fair heroine (Amy)....

she had the paint cans tucked in the corner of the shop on a black industrial type shelf.

I felt it looked like her supply area, and that no one would realize it was featuring the paints, even though there was the chalk board sign hanging on the corner.....

I had just seen the most recent episode of

Bethenny Ever After

(I LEARN EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW FROM REALITY TV!!!!)

(And while we're at it.... WHAT'S WITH TERESSA!!!!! Is she one of the stupidest people on the boob tube????)

(But I LOVE Caroline Manzo!!!!!)

OK where was I?????

Oh yeah!!!!

Bethenny

When she was working with the designers on her new condo, they wanted to put the booze in an armoire, hidden away.

She pointed out that

booze bought that condo.

she wanted a shrine to booze!!!!

So, I says to Amy, says I....

"We need to set up a shrine to Annie Sloane Paint! "Cuz that's what you're selling. Don't stick it in the corner. Make it a central element in the shop!!!!"

So Amy had the

absolutely brilliant idea....

of bringing in her cupboard from her house that she had in her workroom.

And she set it just by the front window, so now folks walking by on the street can see

Annie Sloane Chalk Paint!!!!

Amy had had her drapery panels that she sells, hanging on this wall.

I felt that it wasn't clear that they were new and folks could order as many as they wanted.

The extra panels were in baskets on the floor.

I was too stupid to look down.

So I did't see them.

I wanted to make it obvious even for the intellectually impaired

(like me)
that these were new and you could buy multiples....

Amy already had a valance treatment hung over the bricked up window that she had uncovered when she first started working on her new store.

I wanted to set up a better display,
and she had the idea to take down the valance
(since she wasn't selling it)
and hang the drapery panels there!!!!!

I know, I know, I've already shown this picture, but
I LOVE THIS SHOT!!!!!
The love seat creates a perfect space to display the wire baskets holding the drapery panels.
NOW IT'S OBVIOUS (even to someone like me) that she's selling new ready to go window treatments!!!!!

So here's the view down her shop.....

and here's a view up her shop....

And this is the view looking in the window...
(I had to go out in the rain to get this shot, I am an intrepid styler!!!!)

Amy sells some wonderful vintage looking folders.
I looked at the package
AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE.....
So I opened one up and set it in this terrific wooden box she had...

The front window on the other side of the shop needed some work.
Amy had had it set up with a table and chairs and place settings.
PEOPLE KEPT COMING IN AND ASKING IF IT WAS A NEW RESTAURANT!!!!!
WELL.....
we fixed that.
I took the table cloth off the table and arranged some more of her pretty linens.....

Then we moved the angel wings to the front, as they are big sellers, and should get top billing
(plus they look great with the bunny!!!!)

I moved Amy's work space to the back wall, and we hid it by placing an antique display piece across the isle.
This way, when someone looks into the store, they don't see a messy area, but
MORE STUFF TO BUY!!!!!

Now this is the view looking in the other window....

(ignore the ladder on the right, that's not supposed to be there....)

I'm not crazy about this sofa,
Amy knows that.
BUT
it will make a great area to display the pillows she's going to sew out of all her vintage fabrics!

Just on a random note....

how cute are these tins!!!!!

And finally.....
We set up a flea market area for the really well priced one of a kind items.....

So, if you're in the area...
(AND EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT)
go see her shop, it's
DELIGHTFUL!!!!!
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