It starts here

The new clothes shop

Welcome to our new blog.

We'll be using it to discuss developments within our business, along with musing on green living, sustainability, creativity, and anything else that tickles our fancy.  We'll share projects, links, recipes, niggles and delights.  Do please contribute.

 

Our first update is on our clothes shop which will be moving around the corner to a new premises in Hope, Derbyshire (see above).  The building has been a pub (The Durham Ox), a bank and a cobbler's workshop and parts of it date back to the 17C.  We're busy with the decoration which will use our stock range of eco-friendly paints by Earthborn.  The seagrass matting will be fitted next Monday, and we've installed Marmoleum flooring in our kitchen area.  Marmoleum is the trade name for what is basically old fashioned linoleum, made from sustainable ingredients such as linseed oil, woodflour, pine rosin, jute and limestone.  It's also completely biodegradable but it is a bit pricey.

I'm currently working on sourcing low-energy light fittings and toying with LEDs, which have improved dramatically in the past year or so.  We haven't quite decided what to do for a desk as yet.  The existing one is made from reclaimed timber but will be in use up until the move; also it needs to be a bit bigger.  I would like to buy an old Victorian shop counter like the one that I managed to find on Ebay that adorns our Eco Eco Home shop, but the access to the shop area is limited so we will probably have to build something in situ.  I'm waiting for inspiration to strike.  The dress rails will be mainly recycled timber, painted in ProAqua eggshell, again by Earthborn.  It should be a nice place to work.