The Painted Porch Project
You lost the floor.
Not the business.
Your booth closed overnight. Your customers didn't. Your inventory didn't. Your craft didn't. What changed is where the floor sits — and building a new floor is a solvable problem.
We're writing these guides with displaced vendors, bankruptcy attorneys, and people who've rebuilt after retail closures before. They're all free. Start with the four below — the ones vendors ask us about first.
Start reading right now — no account needed
Your porch is your new storefront
The positioning essay. What changes when the booth goes away — and what didn't.
4 min read
Online in a week
The day-by-day plan to take orders seven days from now. No fancy setup.
5 min read
Etsy vs. Shopify vs. Faire vs. Whatnot vs. The Painted Porch
Honest comparison. No affiliate links. Pick the one that fits your actual situation.
6 min read
The Painted Tree Bankruptcy — What Vendors Actually Need to Know
Plain-language brief on what happened, what it legally means for your inventory and your money, what to do this week, and what to stop worrying about.
18 min read
The full toolkit
Create success out of chaos.
Create a free Project account, tell us which location your booth was in, and get every resource we've built for displaced vendors — the creditor-claim deep dive, the inventory recovery playbook, the 30-day bootcamp, the document templates. No credit card. No paywall. No upsell email sequence.
We ask for your location because every answer you give sharpens the resources we put in the next vendor's hands. Your report becomes someone else's head start.
The bankruptcy deep dive — the full 18-minute brief
What happened, the automatic-stay window, the UCC "generally known" exception, Proof of Claim procedure, 503(b)(9) priority, realistic recovery projections, scam filter, and 36-month trajectory.
Inventory recovery playbook
If your location isn't letting you pick up your goods: contact scripts, legal framing, and a demand-letter template that escalates cleanly.
Online selling bootcamp
A week-by-week, 30-day plan to be taking orders online — no matter which platform you land on.
Document templates
Creditor claim letter, inventory demand letter, lost-inventory worksheet for taxes and insurance.
What an account does and doesn't do.
- Does: unlock the full library, put your shop on the public directory (if you want), plug you into the location board, and notify you if a legal or ad pool forms around your former Painted Tree store.
- Doesn't: sign you up for our paid ecommerce platform, charge you anything, or share your email or phone with anyone. Ever.