A Small Business Redesign Sparks Creative Thinking

• Can a small business redesign impact your team and supercharge community connection?
• How can a small space provide more functionality for flexible workers?
• What type of office furniture updates will provide the most growth potential?
• How can a redesign maximize office space while you are recruiting a growing team?
• Can an office redesign make your brand feel more established within the community?

An interior design update can create a more flexible layout for targeted growth and productivity. Impactful office design is the first impression your team and clients have about your brand. You are setting the stage for forward momentum, so your office redesign should reach them directly with your specific goals!

UTILIZE A REDESIGN TO FREE UP SPACE

Consider going simpler and smaller scale on your furnishings. Replace large and bulky furniture with standing furniture to maximize space and lessen clutter. Minimalist furniture can have a huge visual impact without using up all the space. Use nesting tables to promote better collaboration among team members. Trade in cubicles and bulky filing cabinets for benching systems and going paperless by moving paper file storage off-site. Having less furniture around gives employees more space to work, connect, and be productive.

• Eliminate outdated bulky furniture and evaluate your furniture scale to maximize space
• Cafe seating can create a unique design for collaboration, meetings, and flexible workers
• Select furniture that can easily multitask into different roles as needed
• Benching systems can provide a lot of flexibility from training to conferences to flexible workspaces

INCORPORATE NATURE INTO THE REDESIGN

Let as much natural sunlight in as possible into your small business redesign. Incorporating living walls and other natural elements can create a healthy environment for you and your employees. Biophilic design offers many benefits, including increased productivity and creativity levels, better personal well-being, and it even helps to brighten up the office. If your office is in a beautiful area, take advantage of the views with a terrace workspace option.

• Add a green wall installation in your entry for impact
• Keep it simple with organic materials like natural wood & stone on surfaces
• Extend the area into a terrace workspace for flexible work options
• Glass office dividers offer a simple way to create personal space without forgoing natural light

INJECT MODERN OFFICE FURNITURE

Outdated office furniture can seem dull, depressing, unappealing, and dark. It may be time to liquidate and lease new furniture for your small business redesign. Bright, modern office furniture that matches your empowered vision will make a big statement. If you cannot paint the walls, select colorful furnishings and art to stimulate creativity. Color can stimulate ideas, increase productivity, and generate calmness where needed. Blue is trending as the most mentally stimulating color, which makes it perfect for an environment in which you want your employees to perform. Take a look at the 2024 Commercial color pallets for some inspiration.

• Colorful cafe banquette seating provides a signature design statement for flexible working
• Borrow the coffee bar set up from coworking environments
• Install a long bench table along a window wall for flex workers and touchdown
• Select unique reconfigurable seating that can grow into your future more easily

CREATE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL ZONES

Redefine how things flow in your office. Discover ways to improve blocked areas for better transitions between flexible workers and resident duties. Creating zones can improve employee productivity and efficiency and make flexible workers look forward to coming into the office to work. Use every inch of the space you are paying for! If the space is small and you don’t effectively utilize it all, you feed into an illusion that the space is even smaller!

• Utilize empty forgotten areas and corners as huddle areas or add privacy booths
• Well-designed floorplans increase overall workflow, add energy, and reduce chaos
• Avoid bottlenecks by working with a space planner to create overlapping flexible work zones
• Make your small space highly functional with properly scaled furniture
• Break out of the breakroom concept with an open coffee bar that can double as a flexible work area

CONNECT THE DESIGN TO THE COMMUNITY

A small office redesign should create an impact with pertinent community-inclusive arts and craftsmen. This can go a long way toward increasing your demographic through community involvement. Many small towns are incorporating murals inside and outside of business spaces to attract attention from people with no idea what you do! Add a bold color statement. Create common area gallery walls in the entry for public browsing and art shows. Hang unusual lighting installations from local designers to accentuate your uniqueness and reinforce your brand connection. Incorporating your company logo and colors into the office design in unique ways can provide a subtle connection throughout the space. This drives employee pride of place and communicates to the wider public that you are here to stay.

• Enlist community lighting designers, metal workers, and fine artists to provide a unique brand statement
• Don’t be afraid to use color to define areas, break up the space, and designate work zones
• Glass walls for private offices provide a connection to natural light and additional places for color
• Encourage unique ways to allow the local community to experience your brand story

ENLIST A DESIGNER TO HELP YOU

Small businesses are essential building blocks for local economies. Start looking around outside of your regional area for fresh ideas for your small business redesign. Something trendsetting is always at the forefront of innovation, it might as well be YOU!  Our designers and project managers are here to help you figure things out. We often acquire unique pieces of office furniture in our showroom, have a walk-through to get your creative ideas flowing, or visit our new Small Business Workspaces idea board for more ideas!

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