Luna, day one: the old carpet comes out
One day after closing on Luna, the first work on site isn't glamorous — old carpet out, floors leveled, base laid. Here's why that unglamorous first step matters more than anything that comes after it.
The day after I closed on Luna, the crew was already on site. Not for anything that photographs well — the old carpet came out, and the floors got leveled. No finishes, no fresh paint, nothing a prospective tenant would notice on a first walkthrough.
That's exactly the point.
Why the boring work goes first
Every repositioning I run follows the same sequence, and it always starts here. A leveled floor is not a cosmetic upgrade — it's the base every other decision sits on: where partition walls go, how flooring finishes get installed, whether the space can actually be split into the turn-key suites I'm planning. Skip this step, or rush it, and every finish that follows fights the substrate underneath it.
The floor leveling was done by Zwiers & Zonen. This is the kind of trade relationship I've written about before — the people doing the actual physical work on a building tend to flag problems before they show up in a report, which is why I stay close to the crews on site rather than managing a project purely through updates from a distance.
Small step, big difference
Nobody leases a building because the floors are level. But every tenant who walks through later will notice, even if they can't say why, when a space feels solid instead of patched together. That's what this step buys — not visible upgrade, just the absence of problems later.
What's next
Finishing. The next phase turns this leveled shell into the turn-key suites I underwrote at acquisition — I'm targeting availability of roughly 200 sqm of turn-key office space at Luna in the coming months.
More updates as the repositioning progresses.
