As you may know, we spent all of last week rearranging, cleaning and painting in our Portland location.
We have had the store arranged like this for about 7 years and it was time for a change.
To start we needed to get our carpets cleaned. So, on Day 1 we moved all of our inventory into the back and moved all of our furniture and display fixtures from the front of the store to the back of the store, exposing the very dirty carpets.
After the front half of the store was clean, we flipped the whole store on Day 2 so the back half of the store could have clean carpets like the front of the store.
After the carpets were freshly cleaned (boy did that feel good!) it was time to give some of our displays a fresh coat of paint to brighten everything up. Day 3 and Day 4 were devoted to painting, waiting for paint to dry and then putting the newly painted display fixtures into their new spots in the store.
On Friday we were in the home stretch! We spent all day Friday and much of Saturday reassembling the store putting all of our Maine made products back on the shelves ready for our customers to come in.
And by the end of the day Saturday, Marie and Barb were so exhausted from all the hard work during the week that they decided to have a little fun with the helium in leftover Valentine’s Day balloons they found when cleaning.
And here’s the blooper….
We work hard but we play hard too. Come see all our hard work and the fresh new look!