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Beauty salon · GB
Design project for a beauty salon, 220 m²
Salon · 220 m² · Completed
About the project
A salon with a five-year reputation moved from compact premises in the city centre to 220 m² in a new district. The result is a white, airy space with colour playing across dichroic glass, spare geometry and a bold print on the floor: an interior that lifts the mood and makes guests feel transformed.
Client request
The GB beauty salon, five years old, was moving from compact central premises into a new two-storey space of 220 m² in a young district. The client wanted an interior that reads at once as a contemporary beauty brand: not the standard salon with chairs along the walls, but a space with a character of its own, where people want to stay a while and take a photograph.
The client also asked for a multifunctional central area, where themed events and photo shoots for guests and brand partners could be held without reworking the interior each time.
Challenge
The difficulty was to fit the full range of beauty services across two floors and the mezzanine between them, including reception, a coffee bar, a facial treatment room, the hairdressing area, manicure and pedicure, and a staff rest area, while keeping the feeling of a generous space rather than one chopped into small pieces.
The second difficulty was to make the interior work equally well by day, in the working rhythm of the staff, and in the evening, when the space turns into a venue: light, materials and furniture all had to hold up in both scenarios.
Concept
A white, airy space in which the main material accent is dichroic glass; its play of colour and light sets the mood of the whole interior. Spare geometry is balanced by an accent print on the floor and by details with a sense of humour. The plan is built for several scenarios: in the morning the working rhythm of the beauty areas, in the evening a venue for events and photo shoots, with flexible lighting and a central space that can be rearranged.
Result
The outcome is a white, airy space where dichroic glass plays with colour and light, spare in its design, with an animal print on the floor and details that do not take themselves too seriously. The areas are spread over two floors and the mezzanine: reception, the facial treatment room and an open coffee bar below; the hairdressing area and the manicure and pedicure rooms above; and a manicure area with a DJ spot on the mezzanine. Three lighting scenes, for work, for events and for the shop window at night, let the central space change to suit the business.
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220 m²
Floor area
5 months
Design period
Zones of the project “Design project for a beauty salon, 220 m²”
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Reception and stairs
The entrance is built around the stair to the first floor, and dichroic glass is the main material accent here: three suspended discs shift from turquoise to pink depending on the angle of view and on the daylight coming through the panoramic window.
The gb logo, applied to the glass partition of the stair flight, reads from the doorway. Along the wall are open acrylic shelves carrying the full line of GB branded cosmetics, at once a display and part of the wayfinding.
The floor carries a large animal print in black and white, the one genuinely graphic element among otherwise pale finishes, and it holds the whole entrance area together.
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Coffee bar by the entrance
An open coffee bar meets guests immediately past the entrance: a professional coffee machine, a grinder and a pastry display gathered into a compact white gloss island with transparent acrylic chairs to sit at.
The area does two jobs at once: it takes the tension out of waiting for a treatment, and it works as a draw for the district in its own right, since anyone can come in without an appointment.
Next to it is the door to the guest WC, marked with a plain sign, and a shelf of bar syrups finished in the same neutral white as the barista counter.
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Lounge area
The space under the stair is given over to a lounge: quilted pouffes in white and graphite with contrasting piping make a soft counterweight to the hard geometry of the stair flight and the gloss of the areas around it.
One detail refuses to be serious: an accent table in the shape of a skull, in acid pink, which argues with the rest of the pastel palette and works as the point the eye catches on in guests' photographs.
A mirrored coffee table with the same animal print as the floor widens a compact corner visually and adds one more facet to the decorative composition, beside the pink feather palm and the suspended glass discs of the stair.
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Frequently asked questions about the project
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about the project
How much does beauty salon design cost?
We work out the final figure after the brief and the measured survey; it turns on the floor area, the number of rooms and the level of finish. A 220 m² salon with a coffee bar by the entrance and a lounge is a large format, so its budget sits above that of a standard salon of 60–80 m².
Why does a beauty salon need a coffee bar and a lounge by the entrance?
At GB we made the entrance about spending time rather than waiting: a guest comes for a treatment but lingers over a coffee, or waits in a comfortable lounge rather than in a corridor by reception. For the client, that changes how the visit feels; for the business, it means guests stay longer and are more likely to buy something extra.
What does contemporary glam mean in an interior?
Glam means shine, mirrors, decorative lighting and bolder materials than plain minimalism allows, without the fussiness of old-school glamour. For a beauty salon this makes sense: a guest should already feel she looks good in the interior, not only once the treatment is done.
What does a design project for a beauty salon include?
The layout of reception, the staircase, the coffee bar and the lounge; lighting chosen for the staff's workstations and for the atmosphere as a whole; building services drawings; and visualisations of every area. Procurement and design supervision are added at the client's request.
How long does the design of a 220 m² beauty salon take?
Counting from the norm of 2.5–3 months per 100 m², a project of this scale runs to about 5 months, given the number of functional areas and the stair. We worked remotely, travelling to site for the measurements and the handover.
How does the position of reception and the stair affect the flow of clients?
At GB the reception and the stair are the first point of contact, and they decide where a guest goes next and whether they lose their bearings across 220 m². We set the route so that the wayfinding reads intuitively, without signs or extra markers.