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Aside from your home, nothing is more personal and detail-specific than your business workspace. Getting more personalized, flexible and organized seems to drive the new trend that is propelling custom manufactured office furniture to scale the stereotypical walls of office design mediocrity; helping business owners personalize their business ideas visually and functionally.

Creating Modern Office Design Trends

Modern office furniture and design trends are created by you, the creative people buying it. When we talk about trends, we are not re...

Given the cost of real estate, few companies can afford to occupy more space than they really need. In fact, many companies are making do with smaller spaces than they would like. For those companies, the question is: how do you take small reception areas, conference rooms, and private executive workspaces and make them work functionally without having them appear small and crowded? Here are a few office design ideas that may help to open up your space.

Reception Area and Conference Room Built-Ins

Built-ins are a way to make small modern rece...

Years ago, modern reception area design was as foreign to business owners as speaking Swahili to the average American. However, in this day and age, more and more companies are starting to focus on how their businesses look up front—and the messages this area conveys. They are beginning to realize that the impression they make at first—and the impression visitors leave with—represents an important factor in their business success.

Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec described his experience of seeing people for the first time when they come into the ...

Your business is different in so many ways than the one next door, across town, or even in the next state. Your business reception area may be 200 square feet, while another is 2,000. Your reception area shape may be square and another rectangular, while still another is triangular with a radius back wall and bi-level on the opposite end. One business may have a need for a single user application, and another three, four or more. Your business may need customer face to face communication, and yet another total privacy. If that’s not enough, you still need to consider: job function, wheelchair access, user chair space, and user tools, just to start.

For these reasons and much more, finding the perfect size reception desk ready-made (for the person that really cares about their business details) is next to impossible.

Let’s assume for the moment you care about your business details, then, there are many things you need to evaluate to make sure you select the right size for your business because if you get it wrong, your business will pay in one way or another. Here’s an example of what I mean…

Love at first sight

Like Britany, love at first sight for your brand is generated mainly by an emotional attraction. In the beginning, (in most cases) that attraction is based upon something you see insofar as very little may be known up front about what the brand is about. Like dating, if the brand can impress the customer, there is a good chance the customer may stick around for more.

Usually, the reason one will stick around for more is if they have an amazing experience during that first encounter.

Brand attraction through DNA

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Words are not enough to effectively communicate your brand

People are wired to understand the world around them quickly by what they see. Before we learn how to communicate by language, we understand by what we see. That’s why communication of your brand visually is so powerful, even more important than what you have to say. In today’s business world we crave information that we can comprehend fast. For that reason the world as a whole is becoming more and more visual. Effective brand communication is not something that’s thrown together by a ...

“Stupid is as stupid does” Forrest Gump’s mama. In reception area design, thoughtless is what thoughtless gets.

Who you are is what they think

Irrespective of what your brand is, or how you think of it, it will be remembered by the way you present it to the world, inside and out. If your brand is cheap, frugal, low cost, than present it in that way. If your brand is a quality brand, than position it as quality. You cannot be what your environment does not believe. If you want your customers to pay more for your brand, they must believe it is ...

This website was designed to help you select the best office furniture possible for your business. We call it the Goldilocks method. When looking around for reception furniture, some furniture is just too big, while others a bit too small, some are nice but the wrong color and still others cost way too many dollars. So how do you get it just right? The answer is simply...

Getting the Style just right

We have put together a collection of styles to give you a place to start. Select one to begin. If it’s not exactly right, tell us how we need to...

Matching Modern Office Furniture to the Way You Work

When Brittany from Atlanta, Georgia fell in love with one of our modern office desks (the Giza) for her office, she didn’t have a lot of the details ironed out. I recall that she sent over a plethora of pictures of modern office furniture she liked. What she was missing, though, was a clear understanding of how to marry the style she preferred with all of the functionality she needed in order to be organized. Organization represented a really important consideration in her furniture selectio...

Value as Perceived through Presentation

“Garçon, please bring the water menu!”
“Really? A water menu?”

There is a story about a high-end restaurant that sold specialty branded water to its patrons for over $8 a bottle. The presentation involved a “water steward” who offered each diner a list of specialty waters from many regions of the world. Each presentation came with an education about the water’s properties that made it desirable over another brand.

This was all an elaborate hoax, because the water actually came from a garden hose. Aside...