At Smitty’s Barber Shop in Battle Ground, owner Tonja Smith and barbers Mara Smothers and Cassidee Hoffmann are all cleaning up after a day’s work in their new shop, a door down from their previous suite.
The last tonsorial instruments disappear into cherry-red toolboxes.
The shop is clean and masculine, with live-edge wooden benches, expertly poured concrete counters and a leather couch. Still to come is a TV where movies will play, according to Smith. The shop’s atmosphere is the product of the combined taste and experience of Smith, Smothers and Hoffmann…