From Floor to Ceiling
I’m thrilled to say that Kushworks Studios has a new home! The lease was finalized and signed on Tuesday, and you’re not going to believe the amount of work we’ve already done to get the place ready for business. My father came down to the shop for a couple of days to help out with the improvements, and in two days we turned half of the shop from a neglected warehouse into a presentable establishment. You can see the building exterior in my post from earlier this week, and now I can show you what it looked like inside at that point, as well as the state of the renovation so far. This is what we started with:
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Time to start improving this place! 25 gallons of White paint, 10 gallons of adhesive, one gallon of black paint, and a whole lot of never doing anything like this before. Pictures of the improved walls:
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After painting, we cut and laid out the flooring. Adhesive will be applied this weekend, it just needs a day or so to flatten out and settle a little bit.
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It’s been a long couple of days, but we finished half of the shop already and we’re well on our way to a larger space and a more efficient Kushworks. Our current shop in Brooklyn is still in full operation, and when the new building is finished we’ll be moving to the new place. I don’t expect more than a day or two of downtime when that happens, we’ll have things pretty well organized for the move.
Next week we’ll try to get the rest of the floor done, and paint the office area and hallway as well.
Hey
Looks good, we had to do a total remodel of a building we purchased for our retail store. Glad its over. New website nearly complete, maybe we can exchange links. We are located in N. Wi. about 40 min. North of Green Bay, I guess they have some football team over there.
Ric
Nice spread. The new floor alone did wonders for the place. I’m loving the glass block window by the exit. Can’t wait to see how it looks once you get equipment moved in and some artwork on the walls.
I’d like to suggest on the one long wall you put a long “kushworks studios” logo like you have on the splash page to the website.
Keep it up.
@Ric
Thanks Ric – email me your website address, I always like to see what other people in other parts of the industry are doing.
@nathan
That’s not a bad idea, we definitely need to dress up these big walls with some art at some point. The multi-colored window is the best part, it’s just so random.