Planning a spectacular corporate event or trade show is quite a bit of work. There are thousands of details, large and small, to prepare and logistical issues to work out. At CORT, we are recognized for our rental and clearance furniture for both businesses and the home. Our housing and destination services also help assist with making a move for companies and individuals seamless and efficient. And we specialize in providing a comfortable, glamorous layout for corporate events and tradeshows. We believe that designing and furnishing an inviting event atmosphere should be seamless, not stressful. Getting started is easy, and there is no need to break out a pencil or graph paper to begin planning for success. CORT provides an easy-to-use, online interactive space-planning tool that will help you design the perfect event area. There is no software to install, and whether your dimensions need to match the layout of your event space or they fit our preexisting templates, you can quickly and easily get a feel for the event arrangement. Of course, a great design requires the right look and feel. Simply drag and drop the images of CORT’s event furniture catalog directly onto your layout. You may easily …
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At CORT, we are renowned as one of the world’s largest and most trusted providers of rental furniture for the home and office, furnished housing, relocation services and for our customer service. However, there are times when owning furniture makes good sense, such as when a furniture item just fits a space perfectly. Yet, in most cases, you would likely prefer not to pay the high costs associated with brand new furniture. In that case, CORT has you covered with a large selection of fabulous, high-quality clearance furniture, for purchase at prices you will definitely appreciate. It’s easy to fall in love with beautiful furniture. Whether it’s a home office, a furnished house, apartment, the busy conference room or the entire office, there is a look, feel and style that only comfortable and fine-looking furniture will provide. That is why we select our superior clearance furniture from movie sets, model homes, executive apartments and more. Buying new furniture is a significant investment in products that may depreciate in value quickly, which makes an investment in our clearance furniture over pricey brand new furniture an even smarter buy. With a variety of colors and styles to choose from, deciding on appealing …
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Great first impressions and keeping costs low are essential for startup companies to begin the journey to success. And solving the startup challenge of creating a comfortable visual presentation, combined with cost reductions, all can be accomplished with office furniture rental. Whether your startup becomes the next Groupon or Google or is purely a law firm or a real estate company, minimizing expenditures can free up vital capital for mission-critical operations. As the organization expands, adding office furniture for new employees and new locations can make the business leap a bit easier with minimal effect on the bottom line. Of course, freeing up capital with office furniture rental does not mean the business and employee workspace need to look like the décor came from a yard sale. CORT has the largest selection of furniture rental options in the world. With custom-tailored packages and lease terms, your startup does not need to sacrifice the quality and feel of the office in order to lower expenses. There are other benefits to renting office furniture too. Rather than tying up initial capital and watching as depreciation eats away at the investment, rental furniture may be classified as a deductible business expense. And with …
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Moving somewhere entirely new can be a major adventure for a single person, let alone a family. Relocating an entire organization, adding new business locations, even shuffling employees to new locales adds a challenging logistical complication to an already complex operation. Yet, proper preparation, planning and expertise can make a crucial difference between wasted time and money or a seamless transition. Just as organizations hire consultants and agencies to provide assistance based on their expertise, a business needs quality relocation services to help lead the way and manage the logistical challenges associated with a major change such as relocation. With CORT, relocation services are part of our core competency as a business, which means our clients can focus on their core competencies and not on spending countless hours finding hotels, employee housing and apartments, furniture rental solutions, utilities and even rental cars. Of course, new and unfamiliar surroundings can be stressful on employees and the business. Logistics of helping get businesses to the destination are only one part of the equation; employees can often feel uncomfortable in a new environment. That’s why we do more than just provide rental furniture services for our clients. Area orientation is always a part …
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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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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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Last week on the furniture blog, we shared home staging furniture tips from our Twitter followers. Well friends, today we are sharing more tips with you today from our Facebook fans! Michael Miles, of Michael Miles Photography, stressed the importance of de-cluttering your home and moving as much as possible into a storage unit. Keeping the rooms free from clutter does not only add to the aesthetic quality of your staged home, but also provides the illusion of more space. As we’ve mentioned on the furniture blog before, in addition to eliminating clutter, it is also important to de-personalize your home. Shana Sagat of Shawnee, Kansas stated: “You want it to look lived in, yet not lived in by you.” This means that all accolades and items that reflect your personal interests and hobbies should be hidden or taken down. You want the rooms to be a blank canvas for a potential buyer so that they are able to envision how their future life would look inside of your featured home. Keeping the idea of a de-personalized home in mind should continue all the way through the remodeling process as well, especially if you are featuring an older home. Judy Colburn is a home stager in …
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We’re back this week with more great do-it-yourself home staging tips on the furniture blog. Even if hiring a professional stager is not an option in your budget, there are plenty of techniques you can and should take care of on your own. You don’t need to have a brilliant eye for design to handle these basics of staging a home to sell. Don’t underestimate the power of a clean, de-cluttered, de-personalized home that looks streamlined and modern to potential buyers. There are no do-overs when it comes to first impressions, so make it count by showcasing your home’s best features and potential. CORT is lucky to be considered a friend of professional home stagers, because they count on us for great home staging furniture. This relationship means we enjoy access to expert tips and information. We recently invited our stager friends on Twitter to share some cool home staging tips for us to share on the furniture blog. We’ll share a couple of those today, and want to remind readers that we’re still accepting submissions! Tell us your favorite staging idea or about a recent success story, and you may see your tale featured in a future furniture blog …
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It’s no secret that CORT and our furniture blog team love the home staging industry. Top stagers nationwide depend on rental furniture from CORT to help make clients’ homes as modern and appealing as possible. So we’re of the opinion that when you want to sell your home quickly and for the best price, you should seek the expertise of a professional home stager to whip your property into shape. Call us biased, but we’ve seen major results from these efforts— stagers are closely familiar with current market conditions and interior decorating trends. That being said, if your budget is too tight to hire a stager, there are several easy, inexpensive techniques you can do yourself with an investment of time and effort. Staged homes spend 89 percent less time on the market, so follow some of these proven strategies even if you can’t go all out by hiring a professional or getting lots of home staging furniture. Kate Hart, an expert stager with the Real Estate Staging Association, compared it to getting your home ready for a blind date. You’ve only got one first impression, so make the most of it by showcasing the property’s best selling features. Start …
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In many of our furniture rental blog posts, we refer to the broad selection of styles available in CORT’s huge inventory of rental and clearance furniture. We believe in good design and offering pieces that deliver in terms of both form and function. With such a diverse customer base, it’s crucial that we stock furniture pieces that suit many different tastes. Ultimately, we have American furniture designers to thank for dictating the interior style trends we embrace every day. The contemporary furniture design field is converging to discuss the state of the industry this month at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. The series of panel discussions, called “The Home Front: American Furniture Now,” will run through April. It will be guest curated by Surface Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dan Rubinstein and feature speakers ranging from retail store owners to architects and educators. The goal is to allow voices representing varying sides of the industry a chance to engage with each other and the public. The first discussion, featuring a round table of retail taste-makers, took place on Jan. 13. It was an opportunity for designers to understand how to get noticed by retail venues, in terms of …
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