Walk into a salon where the front desk is too tall and you will see it immediately: the receptionist half-stands to greet people, guests lean down to sign in, and everyone looks slightly uncomfortable. Height is the most overlooked spec on a reception desk, and it is the one you feel every single day. Here

You are adding a second wash station and the quotes landing in your inbox range from $390 to just under $5,000 for what everyone keeps calling “a shampoo bed.” That gap is not random. It comes down to three things: whether the unit is portable or plumbed, whether the backrest moves, and how much water

You roll a trolley into a treatment room, and it jams against the bed frame with the door still open. Every inch of a spa is fought over, and a trolley is the piece most likely to be bought on looks and regretted on measurement. Here is how beauty trolley dimensions work in practice, and

You have signed the lease on a four-room spa, the paint is barely dry, and now the real question lands: what will the equipment actually cost? Plenty of first-time US owners budget for the beds and forget the desks, trolleys and freight, then run short three weeks before opening day. This guide walks through spa

A client settles onto the bed, you reach across to start her facial, and your elbow hits the wall. Nine times out of ten that is a dimension problem, not a technique problem. When you are fitting out a US treatment room, the length, width and height of the bed decide how comfortable both of

Two weeks before opening, the shampoo bed is still in its crate and the plumber keeps asking whether you want a floor drain or a wall drain. Shampoo bed installation is the one job in a salon build where guessing costs real money — tearing up a finished floor to move a drain runs $800

The box arrives flat, the hardware bag has forty-two pieces, and your first client is booked for Thursday. Manicure table setup is the step most nail techs underestimate — and a wobbly table or a fan blowing dust the wrong way will annoy you every single day. Here is the practical version: what is in