Monday, March 30, 2009

Finally opening for real!

We have been working so long and so late (in fact it's way past my bedtime right now) but we are finally ready and open for sales at Olive Branch GBS!  We have had the most amazing help. We are so lucky to have found Jamie Huffman our architect/designer for our custom sink cabinets. My dear friend Joel Martens has been our unofficial/official showroom design consultant who is just brimming with creative ideas about making our showroom look awesome (not the least of which is our low-cost and recycled material solution to hiding ugly but energy efficient florescent bulbs) and even as I speak I owe him a dinner.  Our Yolo paint just arrived and they have made us feel a part of their family already.  Other suppliers like our flooring supplier Ada Freed have been just so easy and wonderful to work with.  We absolutely love our new location and our friends have been coming to visit us much more than in our old location, which wasn't far away but was not the entertaining, hip and walking-friendly area we are in now.  So far, the one and only drawback of our location is that we are completely addicted to the incredible food and coffee and company of Linda and Greg at Cafe Forte around the corner!  I guess we'll have to make good on our promise to ride our bikes to work to save lunch money and burn off those calories!