As many of you know and have read over the last couple of months, we have been working on finalizing an official location. You might have also noticed a long span of time in which I have not posted or written much. If you don't already know, we have big news! We are officially open for business in our very first location!
Over the last month we have not posted due to building a dance studio within the building we are located in. On May 20, 2016 we signed our lease to our first studio and a few short days after that, we started working to create our studio. We spent 3 weeks repainting, replacing carpet, laying down a dance floor, and more to be able to give our current and future dancers a place to call their home dance studio! Some of you may have stopped by or even seen photos of what our current location looks like. However, until you know how far the studio had to come in 3 weeks, you will never know how excited my husband and I truly were when we opened our doors for the first time on June 11, 2016.
When we worked in the studio for those 3 weeks, we had many days that it felt like our deadline was going to be impossible to reach. We experience many ups and downs over the course of the 3 weeks we worked, but in the end it was well worth the small and large disasters we met. Some of you may be wondering, "what on earth happened during those 3 weeks?!" Trust me, it got crazy at times and I plan to tell you about some of our minor and not-so-minor issues we ran into...
First, we walked in to see we had tons...and I mean TONS of work ahead of us. For example, one of our smallest issues was having to crawl around the floor and repaint all the trim white because it was painted the same color as the walls...that was interesting! ;) Another minor issue was the day I bought Black Swan paint. Now, I'm sure many of you will read the name, "Black Swan" and think of the movie, as well as think, "Oh ok, she bought 'black' paint"...Well that wasn't the case! It was actually a very dark purple. So, in the end after many trips to the paint store, we got it to black enough for our one wall. As the days went on, we purchased mirrors, mounted them on the wall, and then came a slightly bigger problem. We couldn't use those mirrors the way they were put up. So, we re-hung them.
Now, I'm sure your thinking, "They re-hing mirrors...so...what's that got to do with anything?" It has a lot to do with our experience! We re-hung these mirrors 3 times...and had to purchase a new one in the process. Wanna know why? Well, one shattered... All. Over. My. Husband. He's fine, no need for an emergency room, just some bandaids. I will tell you, these mirrors were 4 feet wide and 8 feet tall. A few days later, before getting our new mirrors, we found glass 9 feet up, stuck in the wall! Like I said, it was an experience.
I'm sure your probably thinking, "A mirror shattered, a 4 foot by 8 foot mirror SHATTERED ON HER HUSBAND, that's got the be the worst of it!" Well, in reality I'm sure it does ad up to be one of the worst things that could have happened, but truthfully, one of the worst things was not knowing when our dance floor was going to arrive! With only 2 days left till we opened, we hadn't heard anything about when our flooring would be arriving. We are very grateful it arrived on June 9, 2016 and was finally installed the morning before we opened!
Surely, you're thinking wow...these are 3 things that are all on different levels of crazy, and believe me they are, and there's more where that came from! I can honestly say, even through all the crazy and the nutty adventure we went on to create our studio, it was all worth it. Many people joke around and say, "I put my blood, sweat, and tears into this place to make it look like this!" I can truly say, we put our blood, sweat, and tears into this studio! Every day we worked, every time something went wrong, or went right, it no longer matters what kind of disasters we had because it was all worth it! It's still worth it because we now have our first dance studio and a place for students to come and enjoy their dancing experience. We hope to make our studio a place for our students to come and express themselves, thank you to everyone who helped us and continues to help us. We love you all and can't wait to see you in classes!
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