Chopperlumps

the front door is nearly finished... come on by!

So…the door is painted on… the interior is painted, paint everywhere…construction fumes almost gone! we took a building from 1929 and built a 2009 building inside of it. we could have probably built a brandnew building quicker. making the building safe and useable proved a difficult undertaking to say the least. a useable retail space that is also attractive is the goal of all retail designers… this is my first. i wanted a gunstore that is reminescent of the hallowed gunquarters that sold these items when purchased new. that meant drawing from all available resources. i looked at old photos and read every description i could find… thanks to the late, great Geoffrey Boothroyd! in those storefronts from the past, most of them only sold thier in-house brand, and a select few used guns. from what i can find, most of these had, by modern standards, relatively few guns in stock. american gunstores were almost always much larger, with most of the available makers in stock. our challenge was to build a space that could hold hundreds of guns on our public floor, and to not get that “warehouse” feel of many modern stores. all modern stores that sell a mixture of old and new guns face the question of spacial planning. how do you emphasize each product effectively? well, i can tell you it is one hell of a challenge! i will be posting photos of the progress as it happened, to get us to the point we are at now, as well as future developments… we’ll keep you posted.