I was contracted to furnish and renovate an office, making it warm and inviting and ready for the increase in staff number due to the expanding business requirements. The owners love of greenery, keeping it modern and adding warmth to the sterile interior was part of the brief. They required a much expanded kitchen, somewhere for staff to eat lunch and a coffee station for staff and guests. Also needed was some sort of partition to keep the office/workspace a bit more private.
Below: I designed a 5 bay cube unit used for display and to partition off the office space. On the back of this a credenza unit sits. Made exactly 2 bays high it houses all the filing and storage required. 2 chairs are positioned in the upstairs waiting area and a convenient coffee station for staff and guests.
The dysfunctional kitchen which comprised of a fridge space, sink and a tiny cupboard needed a complete overhaul. The toilet door came straight off the kitchen which wasn’t particularly pleasant but the unnecessarily large bathroom and laundry/cupboard left scope to steal some space.
From left to right below: The kitchen part way through renovation. The small opening is where the old toilet door was. We used that space in the bathroom to create a fridge space and relocated the door around the corner off a dead end corridoor. We then used the cupboard next to it as a space for extra bench and cupboards. you can see the tiny bench currently available next to the fridge. The finished kitchen now has more than 5 times the storage and a large breakfast bar for 3. I added oak open shelves add warmth and to tie in with the new furniture and flooring. The same rose gold handles are used on the oak credenza.
The office came with a sofa and a few occasional chairs which we moved around as they were perfectly fine.
I worked with the grey downstairs and the mustard chairs were not quite right with the look upstairs but looked great in the breakout room (jungle room) that housed the bottle green velvet sofa that I had purchased for their last premises. The only things we replaced were the 3 huge white laminate desks.
Below: Detail of the oak credenza and new desks I designed.
The stairwell needed a revamp. Large ugly space that could easily be made fun. It is now a dramatic entrance to the office space.
With the company still growing rapidly while I was working on the project the clients decided they required a receptionist downstairs so wanted an equally stylish reception area. Waiting spaces were needed downstairs and upstairs to accommodate the different clients/suppliers that would be coming and going.
The super stylish custom made reception desk.
(A special thanks to Maelstrom Design for the custom made reception desk, furniture and shelves!)