Retail Shop Renovation in Singapore for EmpireCardz
A retail shop renovation turns a bare shop unit into a trading space — design, construction, and the fixtures that hold the stock. Offix designed and renovated 800 sq ft for EmpireCardz, a Singapore trading card retailer, in two to three weeks: display walls, custom counters and cabinets, handed over in 2025.
How do you display thousands of cards in 800 sqft?
EmpireCardz sells graded and sealed trading cards — stock that is small, valuable, and only sells when a customer can see the face of it. The brief was blunt: fit in as much display as the unit could physically carry, without the shop reading as a storeroom.
An 800 sqft unit, narrow and deep, gives you one advantage and one problem. The advantage is two long walls with almost nothing interrupting them. The problem is that every foot of floor given to a freestanding fixture is a foot the customer can no longer stand in. So the planning question was never how much furniture to add. It was how much of the display could be lifted onto the walls, leaving the floor for people — and where the stock that could not be shown was going to live.
Both walls became the shop
We planned the unit as three zones along its depth: browse, buy, and pay. Both long walls carry floor-to-ceiling display in black-framed racks, with the shelves angled so a card reads from standing height instead of edge-on. The pitch matters more than it sounds — flat shelves at that height hide the artwork, and on a trading card the artwork is the product.
Down the centre we set one island counter rather than a row of separate cabinets. That keeps a single clean route on either side, lets two customers browse without meeting, and gives the shop one continuous surface to merchandise instead of several short ones. The cashier sits at the far end, so a customer walks the full length of the display before paying. Nothing freestanding went in that did not also hold stock: in a unit this size, interior design that stores nothing is paid for in square feet.
Fixtures built for the product
The counters and cabinets were built for this shop rather than bought in. The island counter is a glass-topped case on a timber base — the case shows sealed sets and boxed product from above, and the base below it is closed storage. That is the storage problem stated plainly: a card shop holds far more inventory than it can ever display, and it needs somewhere to keep the rest within reach of the counter.
At the shopfront, a timber and glass cabinet takes the higher-value pieces behind a lock. Warm cove lighting runs under the counter lip and along the shelving, so the light lands on the cards rather than the aisle. Timber tones and black frames were held consistent from the entrance to the back wall, so the fixtures read as one system rather than as furniture collected over time. All of it was drawn, made and installed as a single renovation package. Floor and wall finishes were deliberately kept quiet — pale timber-look flooring, grey-white walls — so the colour in the shop comes from the cards rather than the background.
What EmpireCardz got back
square feet planned around display
weeks, drawing to handover
team accountable for design, build and handover
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