See How Fiberglass Decorations Can Make Your Candy Store Stand Out!

What kind of decoration can make your store stand out?

To make a dessert shop, candy store, or ice cream shop catch people’s attention from the street, the key is to create an immersive “sweetness” experience!

Just like the trendy photo spots in the picture, use oversized ice cream, cakes, doughnuts, and candy sculptures as decorations. Set up a 3-meter-tall ice cream arch at the entrance, and decorate the interior with some real elements like a candy forest or dessert castle. Also, add macaroon-colored floors and candy-shaped rest areas to turn the store into a real “candy kingdom”.

The advantages of this kind of decoration are quite obvious:

• High visual impact: Customers can notice it from a distance, even if they don’t have the need to purchase food. They will still be tempted to enter your store to take photos and post them, helping you promote your store.
• Strong immersive experience: Customers feels like they are stepping into a fairy tale world. Both adults and children are willing to stay longer, thereby increasing the sales of your products;
• Social media attribute: Attractive scenes will be taken by customers for sharing. Helping your store to promote for free and easily becoming a popular store.

What is fiberglass material? What are its advantages?

Many people are curious: What materials did these oversized dessert sculptures, candies, or macarons use? The answer is fiberglass (scientific name: fiber-reinforced plastic), which is the “gold standard material” for commercial display design.

Its advantages are particularly suitable for store decoration:

• Free form, realistic colors: You can create any shape you desire, whether it’s a spiral ice cream, multi-layer cake, or cartoon candies, and they can be 1:1 replicated. The colors can also be customized to various styles. Such as macarons, high saturation, etc., perfectly match the store design. At the same time, it can be very close to your products, achieving a perfect replication.
• Light and easy to install: It is much lighter than stone and metal. Whether it is hung on the wall, placed at the entrance, or used as a large indoor installation, no complex load-bearing structure is required. Installation and transportation are very convenient;
• Waterproof and sun-resistant, durable: Not afraid of wind and rain, not afraid of direct sunlight. When placed outdoors, it won’t fade or crack, and when used indoors, it won’t be afraid of humidity. The humid environment of a dessert shop or ice cream shop can be perfectly held;
• High cost-effectiveness: Compared with stainless steel, cast copper and other materials, the production cost of fiberglass is lower. It can make larger and more exquisite installations with less money, suitable for small and medium-sized stores as a draw-in decoration;
• Easy to clean and maintain: The surface is smooth. When it gets dirty, just wipe it with a damp cloth and it will be clean. Daily maintenance is stress-free, and there is no need for frequent repairs.

What is the process of making fiberglass? Why is it used?

The production process of fiberglass sculptures is quite simple. The core steps are mold formation + hand painting:

1. Create a 1:1 clay model based on the design drawing to determine the details of the sculpture.
2. Use the clay model to mold the mold, then mix glass fibers and resin and fill it into the mold. After curing, remove the mold to obtain the sculpture prototype.
3. Polish and repair the prototype, then hand-paint and color the details, and finally apply protective coatings to prevent UV rays and water damage.

Can fiberglass be used both indoors and outdoors? How long will it last?

Glass fiber reinforced plastic is a material that can be used both indoors and outdoors. It can be fully applied in outdoor environments:

• Outdoor use: After applying protective coatings that prevent UV rays and water damage, it can be used normally in outdoor settings. Its lifespan can reach 5-10 years. As long as regular simple maintenance is done, it can maintain a bright color and intact shape for a long time.

• Indoor use: For use in shopping malls and stores, it is not exposed to wind and sun, and has a longer lifespan. It will not have any problems even after 10 years, and it is environmentally friendly with no odor, meeting the safety standards of shopping malls.There is no need to worry about its durability: It is impact-resistant and not prone to breaking. Even if accidentally bumped, it will not be easily damaged like gypsum or ceramics. It is fully sufficient for daily operations.

How to complement your candy shop to attract more customers?

When decorating a dessert shop, using fiberglass to create oversized dessert sculptures is to “visualize” customers’ love for desserts. This uses visual stimulation to awaken their appetite and at the same time creates a distinctive shop style.

For example:

1. Ice Cream Shop: Use giant ice cream cones and ice cream mountains as the storefront design, instantly identifying the category and attracting target customers;
2. Candy Shop: Create candy arches and candy forests to create a fairy-tale atmosphere, attracting families and children;
3. Dessert Shop: Use multi-layer cakes and macarons as the rest area design to enhance the store’s atmosphere and prolong customers’ stay.

Using fiberglass art decoration is to use the lowest cost to create the strongest “attracting weapon” for the store, making your store stand out from the street and easily becoming a popular tourist destination!

What other materials and decorations can be combined with fiberglass materials to create a unique look?

1. Green plants / artificial plants: Soften hard sculptures and create a natural and sweet atmosphere

Just like the combination logic in the indoor candy paradise in the picture. Fiberglass dessert sculptures can be combined with real or artificial green plants.

• Combination effect: Surrounding green plants around the giant cake and candy sculptures can not only neutralize the industrial feel of fiberglass. Making the scene more lively, but also creating a fairy-tale “candy forest” atmosphere, making photos more visually appealing.

• Advantages: Low cost of green plants, easy replacement, and the combination with macaron-colored fiberglass sculptures creates a color collision. Enhancing the scene’s layering effect and reducing the oppressive feeling of large sculptures.

2. Lighting / Neon elements: Enhance visual focus, suitable for night-time traffic attraction

Refer to the design of the CANDYLAND arch in the picture. The fiberglass sculptures can be perfectly combined with LED light strips, neon lights, and ambient lights.

• Matching effect: Embed warm light strips inside the fiberglass doughnut and candy-shaped sculptures, and use neon lights for the doorhead. During the day, it is an eye-catching sculpture. At night, it becomes an illuminated photo spot, attracting customers 24 hours a day.

• Advantages: Lights can magnify the advantages of fiberglass sculptures. Making the colors more vivid, solving the problem of nighttime traffic attraction, and creating a differentiated nighttime atmosphere.

3. Ground / Wall painting: Extend the scene, create an immersive space

Refer to the ground design of the outdoor dessert park in the picture. The fiberglass sculptures can be combined with epoxy floor painting and wall hand-painting.

• Matching effect: Use painting to create the effect of “melted cream and candy crumbs” below the fiberglass ice cream and cake sculptures. Seamlessly integrating the sculptures with the ground.

• Advantages: Low-cost extension of the scene, making large sculptures more immersive. Allowing customers to take photos with a complete fairy tale feeling, and increasing the rate of sharing and checking in.