{"id":13067,"date":"2019-04-02T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=13067"},"modified":"2019-03-31T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:16:14","slug":"ideas-to-fill-empty-display-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2019\/04\/ideas-to-fill-empty-display-windows.html","title":{"rendered":"Ideas to fill empty display windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-mini-museum-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13074\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-mini-museum-a-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-mini-museum-a.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-mini-museum-a-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-mini-museum-a-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every small town has some empty windows downtown. Some are empty buildings, some are buildings being used for storage, and some are service businesses that just don&#8217;t have a lot to put in their windows. Here are three ideas I saw on my trip through Cowlitz County, Washington.<\/p>\n<h2>Make a mini-museum.<\/h2>\n<p>Work with the local museum to make a temporary display in the windows. This works even for tiny outdoors display cases, which you sometimes see on old jewelry store buildings. The photo at the top is a mini-museum display I saw in Castle Rock, Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-picket-fence-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13075\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-picket-fence-a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-picket-fence-a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Castle-Rock-WA-window-picket-fence-a.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Put in a white picket fence<\/h2>\n<p>This picket fence was also in Castle Rock. The service business inside didn&#8217;t have a lot to put in their windows, so they filled them with this attractive alternative.<\/p>\n<h2>Doodle on the windows<\/h2>\n<p>An artistic person with some window chalk put these wonderful vines in the window in downtown Kelso, Washington. Much better than just an empty window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kelso-WA-window-vine-design-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13073\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kelso-WA-window-vine-design-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re interested in filling empty buildings, have you thought about <a href=\"https:\/\/saveyour.town\/sharedspaces\/\">dividing them up into shared spaces<\/a>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\">Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every small town has some empty windows downtown. Some are empty buildings, some are buildings being used for storage, and some are service businesses that just don&#8217;t have a lot to put in their windows. Here are three ideas I saw on my trip through Cowlitz County, Washington. Make a mini-museum. 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