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How to switch from booth rental to a salon suite in Maryland
How to switch from booth rental to a private salon suite in Maryland: the legal side, the math, what changes day to day, and who should wait.
ReadFor hair stylists
A private hair suite in Crofton, with your own shampoo bowl.
Suites A and B are built for color, cuts, and long chair time: a shampoo bowl in the room, lighting that shows true color, windows, and a restroom only you and your clients use. From $279 a week, with everything included.
The work
What a hair stylist needs from a room.
Hair work asks more of a room than almost any other service. You need water at the chair, power for hot tools, and light you can trust when you are matching a tone. Most booth rentals give you a chair and a share of a shampoo station across the floor. Clients notice the walk, the wait, and the noise.
We designed the first-floor suites so the whole appointment happens in one private room: consult, color, rinse, cut, and finish, with nobody else in the mirror.
Which suite fits
Suites A and B, on the first floor.
A color appointment can run three or four hours. Your client should not have to walk past strangers to rinse, or wait in line for a restroom. In Suites A and B the shampoo bowl, the chair, and the restroom are all inside your own 180 sq ft, behind your own exterior door.
There is room for a second chair if you want an assistant or a stylist you trust to share the space. If you work alone, the extra floor gives you a proper processing seat and space for a color bar on the counter.
180 sq ftFirst floor
Suite A
- Your own exterior entrance
- Private restroom inside the suite
- Shampoo bowl, built-in counter, and barber-ready electrical
- Windows with natural light
- Stylist chair and shampoo chair provided
- Your own thermostat
180 sq ftFirst floor
Suite B
- Your own exterior entrance
- Private restroom inside the suite
- Shampoo bowl, built-in counter, and barber-ready electrical
- Windows with natural light
- Stylist chair and shampoo chair provided
- Your own thermostat
What the room has
Built in before you move in.
Everything below comes with the suite, from $279 a week with utilities, WiFi, parking, and 24/7 access included. Rates vary by suite, so ask us for the exact number.
A shampoo bowl in the suite
A shampoo bowl and counter inside the room, with a shampoo chair we provide. Rinse, tone, and gloss without leaving your space.
Color-true CRI 90+ lighting
Every suite has CRI 90+ lighting, so the tone you mix is the tone your client sees when she walks outside. No more checking color by the front window.
Windows and natural light
Suites A and B have three windows, so you get daylight to check your work against, and a room that feels open through a long appointment.
Power for hot tools
Blow dryers, flat irons, and curling irons can run together without tripping a breaker. We provide the stylist chair as well as the shampoo chair.
Your own air and climate
Fresh-air ventilation and your own thermostat, so color and lightener fumes are not shared with the suite next door, and you set the temperature for your clients.
Questions
What hair stylists ask us.
More answers on the full FAQ page.
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Be first to choose your suite.
Pre-lease list order decides who picks first. Four suites in Crofton, opening Early 2027.