Description
Most florists start in a garage, a spare room or a corner of the kitchen, and most of them lay it out wrong the first time. The bench ends up against a wall, the buckets live nowhere near the tap, there is no cool corner in July, and every wedding means carrying wet crates back and forth across the same three metres.
This kit is the fix. It takes you through the space assessment, the six zones of a working studio, cool storage without a cool room, and the equipment you actually need — in the order you should buy it.
Inside you will find:
- A space assessment page for floor, water, power, access, temperature and waste
- The six zones of a working studio and how they should flow
- Layout rules, bench heights, lighting and matting
- Five realistic cool-storage options, and what you should never refrigerate
- A furniture and fit-out list with columns for your own prices
- A tools list, from snips and secateurs to ladders and clamps
- A consumables stock sheet with par levels and reorder points
- Water, hygiene and safety checks for a wet, sharp working space
- A wedding week mapped through the studio, Monday to Monday
- A monthly running cost table
- A fill-in set-up budget with contingency
- What to check with your own lawyer, insurer and accountant before you sign or spend
It is written for new wedding florists setting up their first workspace, and for established studios reorganising a space that has stopped working.
After using it you will know what your space can and cannot do, what your set-up genuinely costs, and where every bucket, tool and crate lives. Wedding weeks get calmer, because the room does half the thinking for you.
What’s inside
- Space assessment worksheet
- Six-zone studio layout plan
- Cool storage options without a cool room
- Furniture, fit-out and tools lists
- Consumables stock sheet with par levels
- Water, hygiene and safety checks
- Wedding week workflow, Monday to Monday
- Monthly running costs and fill-in set-up budget
