Incline Homes

Project · 02 / Commercial

Lotus Nail Studio.

A 1,200 sq ft ground-floor salon built into a new three-story mixed-use shell on Butler Street — chandeliers, lotus-line murals, and a quartz palette wall — with two custom apartments above, all delivered in a single sequence.

LocationLawrenceville · 15201
Sq Ft1,200 sq ft · salon
TypeCommercial · Mixed-Use
Year2025
01 /Project brief

A commercial fit-out and two custom apartments — delivered as one build.

Lotus Nail Studio occupies the basement and ground floor of a new three-story building we delivered on one of Lawrenceville's most-walked retail corridors. The salon is 1,200 sq ft of the 3,600 sq ft total — the upper two floors are custom apartments we built simultaneously for the same client, so the structural shell, MEP backbone, and exterior envelope were planned around both uses from day one.

Inside the salon, the brand brief was specific: a calm, luxurious palette wall, sculpted niche lighting around the polish display, and a centerpiece chandelier over the pedicure row. We custom-fabricated the rounded niche frames with integrated LED back-lighting, ran a continuous quartz vanity the full length of the prep wall, and laid large-format porcelain tile end-to-end so the floor reads as one uninterrupted surface from front door to back lounge.

The rear lounge — deep-red velvet chairs framing a hillside view across Butler Street — gets a hand-laid burgundy backsplash and a built-in wine fridge for the salon's VIP service. A second smaller pedicure room handles overflow, with its own chandelier and window onto a historic church across the street. The lotus-line mural was installed in coordination with the brand's designer; we managed the wall prep, primer schedule, and final hand-off so the painter walked in to a finished substrate.

The Incline team handled both the storefront fit-out and our apartments above as a single project — one schedule, one trade-off conversation. It cut weeks off what would have been two sequential builds.
Lotus Nail Studio & building owner
03 / 4 phases

How the project moved from site walk to keys.

01

Shell & permits

Mixed-use building permit on a tight Lawrenceville parcel. Structural design coordinated around the basement excavation for the salon plumbing chase and the two upper-floor unit layouts in parallel.
02

Fit-out & MEP

Salon-specific MEP: dedicated ventilation for nail-room air quality, water + drain runs to each pedicure chair, and a separate panel for the upper apartments. Coordinated the salon's custom-fabricated niche lighting and quartz vanity install with the upstairs unit finishes.
03

Finishes & brand integration

Large-format porcelain floor tile, hand-laid burgundy backsplash in the VIP lounge, and prep for the lotus-line mural. Apartment finishes (cabinetry, flooring, baths) installed on the same finish schedule.
04

Final inspections & opening

Commercial certificate of occupancy on the salon, separate CO on the two residential units, and a phased opening: salon first, apartments occupied a week later.
05 / Let's talk

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