8 Decor Tips For Your New Salon Space
Creating a beautiful, relaxing space for your clients to get away from the hustle of everyday life can go a long way toward converting lifelong, repeat customers. Unfortunately, style and design are pretty subjective, so you’ll never be able to find a “one size fits all” style for your salon. However, you can still cater to a broader audience by carefully considering the design and décor of your salon space holistically to ensure all complement each other well. At Blue Salon Suites, we’ve already done the heavy lifting for you. Pairing our years of experience in setting up successful salons with our team of interior designers, we consistently create enriching yet minimalistic spaces, which leaves room for our suite owners to put their own spin on things. Our salon suites provide exceptional experiences for stylists and clients throughout Sterling, Virginia.
If you’re looking for how to personalize one of our new salon spaces or looking to spruce up your own rented salon space, we’ve put together eight tips we think can help you maximize its aesthetic and practical value. Always look at it from your client’s perspective as well.
Look at the whole picture
When decorating and designing your space, the most important thing to remember is to consider the whole. This means not just the colors, lighting, and furnishings but also the layout of the stations, customer flow, utility spaces, portioning, and more. Maybe you want a cohesive, relaxing interior to exude a spa vibe. Or perhaps a loud, contrasting one to match your exciting brand. Whatever the case, you will have to look at the entire space, end to end, before finalizing the décor.
Whatever theme and décor you select for the space has to augment its primary purpose: creating a welcoming area for your clients to have their beauty needs taken care of quickly, comfortably, and efficiently. With our experience setting up and running salons, we’ve set up all-inclusive, thoughtfully designed salon suites optimized for customer satisfaction and revenue generation.
Light it up
Light can go a long way toward establishing the atmosphere of a space cost-effectively. You can adjust the warmth of the light to complement the colors and layout of the room. Always ensure you have sufficient light at each station to work on your clients comfortably, and the lights are positioned in a way not to blind your customers!
Team up with Blue Salon Suite and you will see we’ve done the legwork for you in our all-inclusive salon suites, with ample lighting throughout – but feel free to customize our preconfigured new salon spaces with your own portable lights and decorative lamps for example.
Style your styling stations
You and your customers spend the most time at the styling stations, so they mustn’t be neglected when finalizing your décor. The amount of space you have will dictate how large these stations can be. Not only should they be stylish and in line with the rest of your space, but they need to be comfortable and easy to navigate.
Well-padded, height-adjustable, and reclining seats will ensure your clients are comfortable and allow you or your stylists to work efficiently. The station should have a balance of storage, workspace, and style to make it practical and aesthetically pleasing. We configure our suites with best in class, comfortable styling stations so your customers always have the most rewarding experiences.
Add a bit of (green) life to your salon
As with many spaces, adding just a few plants can create a calming, more natural atmosphere and is a popular addition to more spa-themed designs. Plants also help improve air quality and can contrast nicely with more wooden furnishings. Feel free to customize your salon suite with your own plants. We always appreciate more green in our spaces.
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Stay organized
Have sufficient storage space at your stations and around the salon to keep all the necessary tools and amenities required at hand but not in a cluttered way. Nothing throws off the atmosphere more than sitting down at a messy salon, so ensure your furniture comes with sufficient storage.
Work with what you have
At Blue Salon Suites, each of our spaces is handpicked for their compatibility with the layout requirements of salons, and all our designs make the best use of the available property. All the amenities are in harmony with the space so you just come and start working on what you love. All you need to do is move in!
A splash of color
Selecting the right color to match the rest of your space’s furnishings and décor goes a long way toward creating a cohesive feel for your salon. Whether you go for neutral, subdued colors to produce a more minimalistic and modern vibe or bright, contrasting colors to add excitement and fun to the space, make sure that it does not clash with the other elements of the room. You can add color through wall art, decorative pieces and even your tools so consider them when working out how best to style your space.
Add a bit of you
You will spend almost half your waking life in your salon, so try to add elements that appeal to and represent your personality to the space. Depending on your preferences, you could end up with a highly personalized, stylistic space that stands out from other, more generic salons. However, do so in moderation and don’t go too bold, as it could potentially turn away some customers, closing you off from valuable revenue.
Conclusion
Give some thought to the above tips when designing your salon to create a cohesive, welcoming environment for your clients to enjoy.
Should you be looking for an opportunity to run your own salon around Sterling, Virginia, without significant upfront capital for design and refurbishment and want some assistance in setting up and running it, consider talking to our team of professionals at Blue Salon Suites. We’re always available to discuss how we can help you set up your very own specialized and profitable salon.
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