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When you run into a wall… use it!

July 21, 2014 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

The walls of your consignment or resale shop can be the most valuable real estate in your location… if you use them well!

Or do your walls look like this?

 

These empty walls just cry for some Shop Sizzle, says Kate Holmes of TGtbT.com

Imagine all the selling, and “stage-setting”, that could be going on on these empty walls. Enough to make a grown shopkeeper cry.

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A few ideas for inspiration, if your walls are not pulling their own weight:

Don’t you love the book-page wall treatment?

If you have a carpenter in the family, or own stock in Ikea, wouldn’t this wall be a wow in your shop?

Don’t you love the hanging shoes? Breaking up a wall like this is very useful in resale, since we tend to have related batches, rather than rack after rack of the same item.

Now, your walls don’t have to be chock-a-block with merchandise, if that’s not your style.

Here’s a gorgeous example from Misred, a shop in St. Pete FL:

Simple but attractive wall display area, from AuntieKate.wordpress.comLoving the painted (stenciled? wall decal?) tree with a hook, the small platform/ “planter” that grounds it, and the careful eye that created the above-rack displays!

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