It may not look like much now, but before you know it, the newest location of “Hammer and Nails” luxury grooming shop for guys will be open for business in the Village Plaza Shopping Center in Chapel Hill, NC. This will be the second Hammer & Nails location in North Carolina, joining the Raleigh location completed by Ten Penny Construction and Gontram Architecture in early 2024. Separating itself from your run-of-the-mill haircut chains, the men’s salon concept will provide hair salon services, nail care, and a full bar!

From the “Hammer & Nails” website:

When it comes to men’s needs, it’s time to think bigger. And bolder. And way more moisturized and exfoliated. It’s time to recognize that men are bigger than biceps and abs. That men’s health is about more than burpees and leg days. Because men have follicles and cuticles, too. And pores. And soles. And palms. And today’s extraordinary man deserves a grooming experience that tends to the whole man. In a space that’s far from take-a-number haircut farms and pedicure stations that reek of acrylic fumes. It’s time to care about the care that goes into men’s grooming. And it starts at a place where men’s care is all we care about. That, and a good drink.

The Chapel Hill location is now fully roughed-in since the beginning of construction in late May. The project required large amounts of demolition, including a total gut of the suite and a few hundred square feet of concrete removal for new plumbing beneath the slab, but it has been off to the races since then. With finishes beginning this week, construction is scheduled to be completed in late August.

The franchisees are teaming up with Gontram Architecture and Ten Penny Construction to design and build the renovation and fitup.