Store planning
Outdoor and Common-Area Displays in Thai Malls
Nothing in the corridor without a letter. A four-way in the opening is often a lease problem, not a lookbook.
Outdoor and common-area displays in Thai malls: the landlord owns the corridor — get it in writing. Independent retailers order a hanging rail for the unit opening because a lookbook showed one. The shops that keep the lease put nothing in common area until the handbook says yes.
We do not invent approvals, millimetre clearances, or fire-route widths. Landlord fixture restrictions is the parent page. Mall vs street is the fit-out split. Ceiling-hung vs floor is height inside the unit. This page is outside the demising line.
What common area is for
Not your merchandising wall. Size run, four-ways, and uncovered stock belong inside. A rack in the corridor is often a lease breach and a walk block — aisle width still applies where people walk.
If approved in writing. A single approved form, a banner on an approved fix, a table on an approved footprint. Name the approval on the quotation. We do not guess the mall’s form.
Pop-up rules are a different letter — pop-up checklist. Do not copy a weekend market stall into a mall opening.
Window is glass you own (within rules). The corridor is not a second window dump.
Signage may hang only where the soffit is approved. Lookbook holders on the corridor are often banned.
Street shops: the pavement may be municipal, not yours. We do not invent a permit.
How to photograph: shoot the opening and the corridor so we can see what you are asking to occupy.
When anything outside the unit
| Job | Inside the unit | Common area |
|---|---|---|
| Size run | Strong | Never without a letter |
| Weekly edit | Table or two-way inside | One approved piece max |
| Campaign | After decompression inside | Handbook or skip |
| Queue overflow | Leftover wrap inside | Not a stanchion forest in the mall |
Queue vs stanchions: mall posts in the corridor are not your boutique spec.
Common mistakes
- Four-way in the opening because it photographed well.
- Assumed approval.
- Covered stock in the corridor.
- Invented fire-route millimetres on a blog.
What belongs on the quotation
- Inside vs common-area lines — named.
- Copy of the handbook page or letter if anything sits outside.
- Footprint and height only as the landlord stated — not invented here.
- Remaining walk inside the unit still.
- Language of the document, Thai or English.
Send shop type and the mall handbook excerpt if you have it. That is enough to keep fixtures inside the line instead of a corridor shop.
Inside the unit unless the letter says otherwise
If you are fitting a mall unit in Thailand, do not occupy the corridor by default. Send the shop type, the size, and the opening month through the fixture plan form. We will return one fixture schedule and one written quotation — Thai or English — covering what stays inside, and nothing outside without your paperwork.
Common questions
- Can I put a clothing rack in the mall opening?
- Only if the handbook or a letter says so. Default is inside the unit.
- Do you publish a corridor clearance in millimetres?
- No. Fire routes and clearances are the landlord’s document, not a number we invent.
- Is a pop-up stall the same as a shop opening?
- No. Different letter, different rules. Do not copy a market stall into a mall unit opening.
- Can brochure holders sit in the corridor?
- Often banned. Ask in writing. Inside, one holder at service height.
Want a fixture list that fits your shop?
Tell us the shop type, size and opening date. We build one fixture plan and one written quotation, in Thai or English.
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