The single most expensive decision in the fit out, and the one every customer notices first.
When we took the floor above the tailor, the first quotation we asked for was not for chairs or basins. It was for the windows.
Majeedhee Magu is a busy road and the second floor is exactly at the height of the opposite building's stairwell. A salon with clear glass on that side is a salon where a woman keeps her scarf on for three hours, and a woman keeping her scarf on for three hours is not going to book colour.
So the street side is frosted to above head height, the door has a curtain behind it, and the mirrors are placed so nobody sitting in a chair is looking at the entrance. It cost more than the second basin, which we then went without for a year.
The rest follows from it. No male stylists, no male staff, and the delivery man leaves the box at the top of the stairs. People ask whether all of that is necessary in 2026. It is the reason the chairs are full.