08/16/2025
Not all Barbershops are created equal, and while there is a Barbershop for every kind of Client; the objective is to build a Barbershop that is both welcoming and hospitable.
No amount of buildout aesthetics and ambience can replicate or replace the presence of sincere character and soul. A Barbershop space has to offer clients a space that they enjoy being in, look forward to visiting, feel they belong when they’re there, and feel a sense of comfort, relaxation, and calmness.
That cannot be achieved when no thought was given to the culture of what the shop should be, and instead all the thought went in to how the shop should look.
Luther Vandross was sang that “A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no one sittin’ there
But a chair is not a house and a house is not a home
When there’s no one there to hold you tight
And no one there you can kiss goodnight”.
Translated, a basic Barbershop is a space that is dead, where haircuts are to be had, furnished adequately to allow that process to happen. A REAL Barbershop is a space that is alive with banter, conversation, fellowship, brotherhood, support and love that is spread throughout a genuine self-contained community!
