A Colorado Jeweler Built Her Store With Reclaimed Wood, Liquid-Metal Floors, and a 10,500-Piece Chandelier

Excerpted from “From Bench to Build-Out,” the lead feature in the upcoming March 2026 edition of INSTORE.

Revolution Jewelry Works, Colorado Springs, CO

OWNER JENNIFER FARNES designed her whole store, Revolution Jewelry Works in Colorado Springs, CO, from color selection, layout and artwork to lighting and the floor plan. The design fused wood and metal for an industrial look, and she worked with a local cabinet maker to create showcases, work booths and displays using Colorado reclaimed woods.

She’s not afraid of hands-on work. As a teenager, she worked construction with her dad during summers and on weekends to remodel restaurants and residences. She has experience with everything from sheetrock to plumbing.

“I was a tiny thing in high school, but I was scrappy,” she says. “It was hard work, but when you’re done and it looks flawless, it’s very satisfying.” She says she didn’t attempt her old specialty of sheetrock in her store because “floor to ceiling here is 18 feet, and I’m not 17 anymore.”

For the floors, she designed the pattern in Matrix CAD and worked with a flooring company to lay out the pattern using a scaled grid in 5-foot sections. When the floors were poured and still wet, she helped out the mom-and-pop floor company who needed to quickly manipulate the polyurea with a leaf blower to give it the look of liquid metal in platinum and crimson before it all dried.

The crown jewel is the 350-pound dream chandelier she sourced that hangs just over the entrance. Farnes worked with two professionals to assemble and hang the chandelier, which has 10,500 pieces. “It was tedious,” she says. “Between three people, it took us a week, 120 hours.” She was photographed crawling up the scaffolding to hang the last crystal piece.

Being intimately involved with building her store was deeply satisfying. “That’s why I like stone cutting so much. I can see the result of hours of work at the end of it. It reminded me of growing up on a farm and working in construction with my dad. It made me feel productive and successful.”

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