For those of you who know us or have visited us here at
WHoArtNow, you will know that for the last 3 years, we've been situated in London Rd in Leicester's Financial District. Now this was a great place for us to start our family run business, but due to us growing steadily over the last 3 years, we had no space left! So much so, that we were literally tripping over ourselves and our
canvas prints!
So about a year ago we started looking for somewhere bigger. Previously, we had a total of 1050 sqft split over 4 rooms. We were looking at doubling our size as a minimum and after almost a year of looking for something suitable and within our price range, we found Vinola House.
Now this is a fantastic space. Solid wood floor, high volted wooden beamed ceiling, 30's industrial with that fantastic front door and our favourite part, and old fashioned "Ghost Busters" Industrial lift! Plus, and this is probably the most crucial thing for our industry, lots and lots of natural light.
It needed some work though. So over the last couple of months, with help from some awesome friends and family, we have cleaned the floor, built a partition wall and re-painted the whole place. On top of that, we have built ourselves a fantastic in door spray booth with it's own (slightly over the top) extraction system. This should, when we have it fully set up and operational reduce our production time on our hand sprayed
metal and vinyl art!
We feel really positive about this space. We have almost 3 times the space we use to, and because it's in one big open space, we can organise better. With all this space, we also have great opportunities to expand our company.
We've got loads to do this year too, with our new website launching later this year, and our new vinyl sticker section should launch at the same time. We're really excited about these, so we couldn't wait and stuck one on our front door! Over the next few months as we start doing some one off artwork for our new white walls, we'll keep our friends and fans updated on both our
Facebook page, and our
Twitter feed.
