I’ve been with Attitudes Salon for almost two years now since I decided I was “totally over” owning my own salon after nine years. Monday was the third time I’ve rearranged my space.
I live in the shampoo room. Well, I mean I work in the shampoo room — that’s where my station is. I live at home. In a house. With two dogs and a boy(friend, that is).
Attitudes is in a house from the early ’70s that was converted to commercial space several years ago. There’s no garage anymore; it’s been annexed into the salon. The backyard has become a parking lot and you enter through the backdoor, through what was once the utility room. If you turn left, you go into the “garage” and will encounter sisters Christine and Deborah doing hair and Jena doing nails.
If you turn right, you will encounter the shampoo room in what was once the kitchen, with me just opposite the bowls under what was once the dining room window. Further exploration will lead you into the “living room” where owner Janet and our newest inmate — errr, I mean, staff member — Joann occupy stations as hairstylists. The “bedrooms” are occupied by massage therapist Anne and massage therapist/pedicure queen Mom, I mean Ginny. Bedroom #3 is a break room.
So, as I was saying, I rearranged my space on Monday. I don’t have many options for how I set up my station, so basically I moved my desk back to where it was when I originally moved in — under the window so I am directly facing traffic as it moves through my room. I suspect it might be better Feng Shui that way than being sideways to the traffic the way it’s been for the last year.
Last year, just before doing the switch with Lois for the NAILS “Trading Spaces” article, I broke the second bottle of polish since moving into Attitudes. Two bottles of polish in less than a year! In the 14 years before that I had never broken a bottle of polish by dropping it on the floor of any other salon I have ever worked in! The first time — only a week after moving into Attitudes and while the owner was on vacation in Hawaii — I managed to get the dark red cleaned up fast and without substantial damage to the linoleum tile floor. The second bottle — OPI’s Boris and Natasha — didn’t cooperate with me as well.
I bought an area rug.
When I lifted up the rug on Monday to reposition it, I was aghast by the pile of dust that had accumulated under the rug. It looked like someone had emptied a small beach under there! Not to mention being reminded of those much-loved cartoon villains’ untimely demise. Fortunately, the rug’s new position still manages to cover most of their remains — and of course I was able to sweep up the dust after taking a picture for posterity.
It does lead me to wonder what is left after five years of working on top of my last carpet (I didn’t have the same carpet for all nine years) and what, exactly IS the best flooring option to put under nail stations?
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