High End
Barber Shop

Location: San Antonio, TX
Type: Retail

San Antonio, Texas — Retail

A retail shell, taken apart and given an order.

The unit arrived as a plain retail box: a grid ceiling, worn tile underfoot, and a single open room with nothing to organise it. The work ran the full width of the space — wood-look flooring laid throughout, walls prepared and repainted, and the lighting stripped out and replaced.

Custom stations and partitions give every chair its own defined zone, so the room now reads as a sequence of workstations rather than one undivided floor. A feature wall anchors the far end and carries the High End identity, and the finishes were chosen to hold together as a single interior.

Before: the empty retail unit looking out to the storefront glazing, grid ceiling and vinyl tile still in place — 01 Before — the unit as foundSan Antonio, TX

Before: the open floor with a painted accent wall, no partitions and no fit-out — 02 Before — one open floorSan Antonio, TX

The finished room seen from reception: stations down both sides beneath ring pendants, feature wall at the far end — 03 The room, completeSan Antonio, TX

The reception counter in dark timber with a stone top, the shop floor opening up beyond it — 04 ReceptionSan Antonio, TX

Looking down the central aisle between the two runs of barber stations and chairs — 05 Between the stationsSan Antonio, TX

Custom barber stations in dark timber with stone tops, mirrors and partitions between the chairs — 06 Custom stationsSan Antonio, TX

Looking up at ring pendants and track heads suspended from the exposed black ceiling — 07 LightingSan Antonio, TX

The waiting lounge: leather armchairs and planting beneath the branded feature wall — 08 Waiting loungeSan Antonio, TX

The lounge from the opposite corner, daylight from the street window with the barber pole outside — 09 Daylight, street sideSan Antonio, TX

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The full length of the shop floor, stations to both sides under the new lighting

The work

Four things carried the room: what you stand on, what hangs overhead, what divides the floor, and what the far wall says.

Flooring
Light
Stations
Feature wall

Ring pendants and track heads against the exposed structure overhead

Stations

Built to divide the floor without closing it. Each chair gets its own mirror, worktop and partition, so barbers work in a defined zone and clients sit in something considered rather than shared.

Project: High End Barber Shop
Location: San Antonio, TX
Type: Retail