My trade show booth design is built around having hard walls. The section I’m in at New York Gift provides walls as part of my booth package, but for the Buyers Market, I have to bring them myself. Since so many people have asked how I put them together, I put together this little video to share!
The hard walls do take a little bit of effort to transport, but the effect is totally worth it!
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They look great and great tips!!!
It definitely does look amazing. If buyers notice how much time, effort and detail go into your booth set up, then they realize the same goes into your work. I’m sure it gives you a ‘leg up’ at the shows.
Wow- great set up. I also like the plain white planks(?) you are using to showcase each necklace. I’m working on a similar plan for one blank wall in my studio showroom and was thinking about mounting many identical but neat looking hooks all over the wall. Then draping my necklaces on them in different configurations/collections depending on what I want to display. This would be easy to change, and would really let the jewelry shine. I might try out the plank idea too. Thanks for continuing to share your learnings- I’ve been reading your emails, FB posts & Twitter.
Megan- First of all – your booth looks wonderful -very clean and chic. Did you have to transport the walls yourself or did you ship them? If you shipped them, how do you recommed shipping them? Thanks.
Hi Linda –
We transported them ourselves in the back of my husband’s pickup truck. (But I’ve also taken them to shows in a Suburban and a rented van.)
I have never shipped these, because I’d be concerned that they’d get damaged. (They’d have to be send via freight, and most freight transporters aren’t as careful as you’d like them to be.) If I was making them to ship, I’d either build a really serious skid to go underneath them, or I’d actually make walls that were 4′ x 4′ panels that I bolted into 4′ x 8′ before assembling them.
Megan,
I use a very similar design but I must admit the painters tape is Brilliant addendum to my list of things to bring with me.
Keep the great tips coming!
Brandi
Thanks Brandi! I started adding the painters tape in New York, because the walls they provide often have HUGE gaps in the seams! It certainly makes everything seem more finished!
looks great megan, thanks!
Yaaaay!!! I am so chuffed to see the behind-the-scenes of your hard walls (my husband however, will not be so pleased, when I tell him he has to build me some… 😉 One question though: how do you have them attached to the floor? What do you do to keep them balanced?
Stephanie – They aren’t attached to the floor at all. We assemble the two corner panels first, and that pretty much keeps everything from falling down. The floor was really uneven at this show (lots of random stuff on the floor that we couldn’t move, such as bases for support pipes and electrical cords) so we just leveled everything the best we could and clamped stuff in place.
We also use some cross beams at the top angles, which are just 2x4s clamped to the tops of the walls. This helps make everything a little sturdier.
Do you have any ideas for outside set ups my booth is usaly a 10×20 length some times 10×30 thanking you in advance Susan LeBlanc
Hi Megan,
This is amazing! I’m wondering how you set the corners up? Are they pre-fabricated corners, or do you put 2 panels together to make a corner?
I just found your blog and this is amazing, thank you!
-emilie
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