Are you relocating your business, starting up a new one, or looking to hire and add new employees? If so, a comfortable, well-placed office is a must. At CORT, we truly understand a comfortable, pleasing working environment can result in improved employee performance and morale. The right office furniture rental solutions can indirectly lead to better meetings and customer interactions. We have focused on home-staging in our furniture blog, and those same tips may be applied to an office of any size. Well-placed furniture, even in the office, facilitates traffic flow and limits obstruction. A minimalist approach to furniture placement also helps reduce clutter. Managers, human resource personnel and business owners alike are typically concerned about furniture placement and communication between employees. While sometimes subjective, many employees, whether in an office or cubicle, prefer being able to perceive the full environment around them. Employees positioned with their backs to doors or entryways to cubicles may feel vulnerable. This can result in employees losing focus or needing to change their positioning to communicate with fellow employees. Additionally, comfort may be of some concern to employees. While it may seem like a small issue, employee comfort may lead to better workplace morale. If finding …
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Whether we are staging a home, adding to our office or preparing an event, planning the arrangement of our furniture can be quite puzzling. While CORT offers services to help bring together approved stagers and consumers, for the do-it-yourself planner, we’d like to provide a few recommendations to help you artfully provide a look, feel and ambiance to your space of choice. In our previous home staging blogs, we emphasized a minimalistic approach. Minimalism has another distinguishable advantage: improving traffic flow. This will be especially important with large gatherings of people. Visualize the main path of traffic from the central focus and use of the room to individual exit points. Furniture that impedes flow might need an alternative placement to allow for an unobstructed route. Start big by arranging your largest piece of furniture first. In most cases, this is a couch, bed, desk or table. When planning your home furniture rental, visualize or draw out the placement in relation to the key focal point of the room but not cluttered around it, as this draws too much eye away from the ambiance. Provide balance with other large furnishings by keeping them separate and incorporating smaller, related items such as …
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Many of you may have caught a glimpse of CORT’s newest line of home staging furniture for offices in last week’s episode of The Celebrity Apprentice. For their most recent challenge, the contestants used our office furniture to stage a television commercial set. While the celebrities worked with minimal room on their set, it had us thinking about how all small office conditions could be best optimized and staged to promote the appearance of a professional and comfortable office environment. As we have mentioned countless times on the furniture blog, eliminating clutter is a crucial first step to maximizing your staging space. File away all loose paper and books on shelves and in cabinets. It is also important to hide all awards and personal accolades, as well as items with the current company branding. Depersonalizing the space will keep eyes from focusing on one particular part of the room. It is important that the office is seen as one continuous when taken in at a glance. Choose lighter, neutral tones for your walls and furniture to complete this home staging look. Keep the office looking as minimalist as possible, however it should still embody humanistic qualities. Neatly display office supplies, such …
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As we have mentioned in past furniture blog posts, achieving balance in home staging design is essential. It is true that certain colors evoke certain emotions, but only when specific hues of a particular color are used. For instance, blue is generally known as a soothing color. This is true of lighter shades of blue, like cornflower and cerulean. However, shades like royal blue or indigo are associated with feelings of conservatism, intelligence, stability and unity. Different shades of colors arouse different feelings, and it is important to familiarize yourself with these implicit attachments before experimenting with a highlighting color in your scheme. We have recently featured home staging tips from our Facebook and Twitter fans on the furniture blog. Last week, we focused on the topic of specific color themes for home-staged spaces. The general consensus from our social media friends was that many people prefer to design with neutral or calming color themes. This sparked our intrigue, and we wondered: Where is it appropriate to add vibrant splashes when home-staging furniture in rooms? Heather Holsenback loves to add color to her kitchen and bathrooms. In her opinion, “[a bright color] in the kitchen … makes it more fun to cook!” The furniture blog …
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