Category Archives: Building a Tea Room

What a difference a day makes.  One day, dust and debris everywhere and the next day, beautiful floors under your feet.  One other important improvement – proper, professional speakers for our music.  This has been a sore point for years.  The speakers were always too close to us and too far from our customers.  We hope [...]

In ten years, our old ceiling tiles were pretty discolored.  New tiles for the new space would never match the ones we had, even the clean ones.  So we opted for new ceiling tiles for the entire store with black track lights instead of the white ones we had before.  The finished look should be [...]

Well, we no longer have 2 stores – it is all one space now and even in this mess and craziness, I must say it feels good and one can finally see the possibilities.  We are still in the nitty-gritty – placement of pipes that need to be changed, light switches that no longer have [...]

Today is the day the temporary separating wall comes down.  You can see what our customers had to put up with for the past few weeks.   We will finally see if the floors in both stores are level, how the ceiling will take shape, where the new HVAC will go, etc.  The second picture is of a [...]