Adaptive Reuse

I’ve been working with one of our retail partners, Celebrate Local, to figure out an easier way to display apparel for all of the vendors. For the most part we vendors fold our shirts and within no time they are a mess creating the need for a full-time Shirt Folder to clean up. It’s not easy for customers to view or test fit the tees without unfolding them. Leading up to the holiday shopping season we wanted to display multiple vendors in an easily accessible fashion as quickly as possible. We determined that racks were the best option but they had to be portable, adjustable, look cool and include signage to separate vendors.

Click the pics below for what I came up with. Details below each photo.

Retail Cart Build Up

I thought I’d create a post detailing the assembly of our cart display at Celebrate Local. The base is a vintage Lineberry Foundry & Furniture Company railroad cart. The story behind it states the cart came from an old furniture store near New Philadelphia, Ohio that opened in 1926. I drafted plans for a metal shelving unit to mount on top of it in Google Sketch-Up and then my dad and I welded it up. I gave it a paint job, added some detachable features and signage to round it off. Check it out…