On a film set, a finish can take days to make and live on screen for a few seconds. I’ve spent 12+ years in scenic departments building faux marble, woodgrain, custom stains and aged surfaces that only have to convince the camera for one shot. Then the set gets struck, and the work goes with it.
I wanted a way to share that craft instead of watching it end up in a dumpster behind the stage. Backlot Boutique is that way. I take the painted textures I’ve made on set (the marble, the woodgrain, the rust and the aging) and give them a second life on things people actually keep: card decks, game boards, puzzles and notebooks. Every product says what the finish is, the set it came from and how long it took, so the story travels with the surface.
Building the store
I built Backlot Boutique on Shopify myself: the homepage, the product story sections and the print-on-demand setup behind them. It’s also the clearest example I can show of the website side of my consulting work. If you want to see what a Shopify build from me looks like, this is it.
Where it’s headed
The store is launching soon at backlotboutique.com, with an Etsy shop alongside it. The first collection, The Green Room, starts with Set Pieces: card decks, game boards, puzzles and notebooks made from those set textures.
Want a store like this for your own work? See Consulting or start a project. Here for the finishes themselves? The Finishes page has the original surfaces.
