How to Customize a Car Shop
A car shop is typically a business that sells cars and car parts -- often vintage or customized cars. Like any business, setting your storefront apart from the rest and ahead of your competition will be critical for success. Customizing your car shop to make it stand out and likewise appeal to consumers can help your business to grow and expand. Choose a prevalent theme to focus on when customizing your shop. For example, you could use a vintage theme. Bring in decor elements to enhance this theme and make it clear to your customers and clients.
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Things You'll Need
- Posters
- Frames
- Vintage car
- Neon sign or Christmas lights
- Vintage advertisements
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Ruler
- Car parts
- Shelves
- Wire
Instructions
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Mount posters to coordinate with your theme. For a vintage theme, the posters could be of old, classic cars such as the Ford Model T. Place the posters in frames for a quality, expensive look. Vintage posters can be found at a variety of places from garage sales to antique shops. Depending on the seller, posters could sell anywhere from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. Garage sales can be more challenging, but a good find will likely cost you a lot less than purchasing from a collector or antique shop dealer. Shopping on auction websites, such as Ebay, can also result in finding vintage posters.
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Acquire a classic car, such as a muscle car from the 1950s, to display as the centerpiece of your showroom. Choose a car in a striking color, such as a bright yellow, to make a memorable decor statement. If possible, place the car in front of a display window to grab the attention of street traffic. Contact local car shops and antique dealers to locate a vintage car. Some restored vintage cars cost more than $100,000, others are less expensive. Cars that need restoration work could be purchased less expensively from someone who wants to get it out of his garage for even just a few thousand dollars.
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Purchase a neon sign with your company name to display at the front of the store. You can also craft your own with careful weaving and winding of Christmas lights to write the name of your business in cursive letters. Creating your own neon sign out of Christmas lights would only cost you a few dollars for the lights. Neon signs can be more expensive, especially if being customized. A custom neon sign could run in the $200 to $500 dollar range and will come from a custom sign company.
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Add vintage signs and advertisements from a variety of classic products such as Coca Cola and Wonder Bread. This will add to the vintage, blast-from-the-past feel of the shop. Vintage signs can be found anywhere from the attics of friends and grandparents to garage sales or antique shops. They can also be found on online auction sites like Ebay. A vintage sign is typically made of a sturdy material, such as vinyl, and can date from the early 1900s until the 1970s and still have a vintage look to it.
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Use paint to enhance the decor. Paint double yellow lines on the floor to resemble the double yellow lines that divide a street. Use a straight-edge or a ruler to draw the double lines on the floor, each line being approximately an inch thick. Fill in the lines with bright yellow paint. Choose one wall as the pop wall and paint it one bright color, such as fluorescent yellow or cherry red. If you are displaying a showcase car, paint the wall to coordinate with the car.
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Hang interesting, custom or vintage car parts from the ceiling, such as headlights from an old Mustang, and mount some on walls, such as the grill of an auto from a vintage Chevy truck or Cadillac. The car grills can be placed on shelves on the wall. The headlights can be attached to a sturdy wire and suspended from the ceiling. Be sure to weigh anything being hung to make sure the wire is designed to support the amount of weight being suspended.
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References
- Photo Credit a car in a car show image by Gary from Fotolia.com
