How you choose to decorate and layout an office can have a major impact on the productivity of your staff. A well-planned interior office design with good layout and the right colour choice can create a positive ambiance and help inspire great teamwork. Here are four elements to focus on when designing a new office space for your company.
Brand the space as your own
Fitting out your office space so that it reflects your brand’s look and feel can be a powerful way to show your staff, customers, and visitors who you are and what you’re about. Some custom-branded vinyl wall decals and a few pull-quotes and achievements printed on the walls can be a highly effective form of internal and external branding without blowing your own trumpet too much.
Choose a colour scheme
It is important to create a colour scheme for your office that complements your brand and creates a coordinated look that works alongside your company’s other materials, such as your brochure or website.
Bold and bright colours in areas within the office designed for fostering teamwork and creativity, whereas quieter more subtle tones work better in areas designed for more focused and concentrated work. Make sure that these various colours all work together in combination, so that they help create a cohesive space that can boost creativity and not cause a clash and jarring experience as people move around the office.
Think about natural light
When planning the design and decoration of your office space, it is important to consider lighting, both natural and artificial. Natural light creates a happier and healthier workforce. Therefore, your first consideration should be the size of the windows and direction your office faces, so you can create a layout that makes the best use of the natural light available and to avoid screen reflection as much as possible.
Your choice of lights around the office should compliment the natural light available, and offer your employees the possibility of adjusting the brightness of the lighting around their desk area to match their own preferences. Some people prefer to work in very bright conditions, whilst other prefer a more dimmed environment to avoid eye strain whilst staring at a screen.
It is also important to ensure there is at least one area within the office that can be darkened, such as with blackout blinds, so that you can clearly project onto the wall or use a big screen during presentations.
Redecoration and ongoing maintenance
Even the best designed office spaces need regular maintenance and support to make sure that all the lighting and electricals are working correctly, and to make sure everything looks fresh and inviting to employees and clients alike. Part of this is making sure to keep the space clutter-free as much as possible, with clear spaces known to help people better concentrate. However, it can also be adding a fresh lick of paint to a room to make it brighter and happier, or rearranging the desks to create a different focus within the space.
Do you need help with office design, decoration, or maintenance?
If you’re looking to transform your office and need help with ideas on how best to layout and decorate the space, or with general maintenance and building support around your current office, then call Beall Group on 0208 058 2203 or contact us online.
