Get ready to refill your pen stash and print your photos, because after months of work, today Lismore’s Officeworks store has finally opened.

Officeworks employee Lyddy said the Molesworth Street store has been brought into line with the ‘new look’ that all Officeworks stores are going to have.

Everything the store had before the February flood is still there, but with a few changes – and a bigger range of products than before.

“There’s been a few changes up the front and we have more aisles now,” Lyddy said.

“When people come in, they will think ‘wow’.

“All the signage is more colourful and eye-catching and at the entrance we have a big new pen stand.

“The point of sale area is new and the printing section is further inside the store than it was before.”

It’s been six months of hard work since the biggest flood in Lismore’s recorded history innunated the second floor store.

“We didn’t expect it to come into the building and we lost everything,” Lyddy said.

While the store was being made ready to reopen, Lyddy and other employees were kept on staff – at first through the government’s payments for flood-affected employees.

“Then we came back to work and some of the staff helped volunteer at Threads; some teams helped rebuild a new store in Robina and some helped out in the online customer service centre,” she said.

“It was good that we kept engaged – and it’s a great place to work.

“I’m so excited we are reopening.”

Officeworks will be open Monday to Friday, 7am to 7pm, Saturday 8am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to 5pm.