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Minerva Beauty Updates 2D Space Planning Design Tool
Designing your next renovation or salon buildout can feel frustrating and overwhelming, but a 2D technology tool from Minerva Beauty makes it fun and easy.
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May 20, 2021
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Minerva Beauty, Inc.has modified and updated their 2D Space Planner tool, making designing your salon, spa, or barbershop easier than ever before. Minerva’s 2D Space Planner allows you to enter the dimensions of your space, add walls, and lay out your floor plan with Minerva furniture and accessories.
“Here at Minerva Beauty, we are dedicated to providing our customers with quality equipment as well as the tools they need to make their space as functional as possible,” says Megan Ferlito, Director of Marketing at Minerva Beauty. “Our updated 2D Space Planner is a great tool that allows our customers to easily lay out and design their floorplan with Minerva Beauty equipment to fully optimize functionality in their salon.”
With the Minerva 2D Design Tool, plans are fully customizable to accommodate any room shape. Customers can also utilize the full color palette to simulate flooring and ornamentals as well as to match the colors of the furniture to what is available for each piece. The item’s product details will provide information on which colors are available for that product as well as other product specifications.
“We are most excited about how user-friendly the updated space planner is,” says Jeff Grissler, director of corporate relations at Minerva Beauty. “From the color and pattern features to the customizable floor plan layouts and furniture options, our 2D Space Planner allows customers to be their own interior designer and visualize how their salon will look and operate.”
When users are logged into their free account on minervabeauty.com, they are able to save, print, and share their plans by email once designs are complete. For more information about Minerva’s 2D Space Planner or to get started designing a salon, barbershop or spa of your own, visit www.minervabeauty.com/design.
About Minerva Beauty, Inc.: Founded in 2006, Minerva Beauty manufactures and distributes salon and spa equipment to the beauty industry. With the largest salon and spa equipment showroom in the world, Minerva offers an incredible selection of styling stations and chairs, shampoo systems, dryers and dryer chairs, pedicure chairs, manicure tables, stools and carts, skin care equipment, and more. Minerva is committed to delivering equipment with fine craftsmanship, value and affordability to the beauty industry and has equipment in over 175,000 salons and spas worldwide. www.minervabeauty.com
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