After a long spell of working from home, uncertainty over whether or not office working would ever make a comeback and the introduction of hybrid working now being offered as a perk in job advertisements, it’s fair to say that there hasn’t been a better time to make office improvements.
Now that people have the option of working from home, Zooming their colleagues in a shirt and tie/pyjama pants combination, you’re going to have to pull out all the stops to make your office environment enticing to both current employees and potential new starters.
If your office furniture looks like it was around to celebrate the millennium, with rows and rows of desks forlornly lining the grey carpet, I’m sorry to break it to you but it’s uninspiring.
Especially when you’ve got the likes of Steven Bartlett literally sliding into his meeting rooms past a waterfall, with a puppy on his knee, and a thousand alpacas singing the national anthem whilst he does it.
Ok, the alpacas may have been a stretch but everything else is true!
Don’t worry, your employees aren’t expecting you to be so extravagant. Not even close to the likes of Mr Dragon’s Den. But let’s not pretend that an office that resembles a set of The Bill is going to do anything to attract the talent you want, or retain the talent you need.
It’s baby steps, small improvements for those of us who haven’t made £300,000,000 in the last few years. And it is here where we come in, ready to vinyl wrap your office furniture and walls to give you something modern and fresh to look forward to in your working week.
If you’re here, it looks like you’ve made an important first step in upgrading your office on a budget.
Rooms Can Be Dynamic Multi-Use Spaces
If you’re clinging on to those 22-year-old desks for dear life because ‘there’s nothing wrong with them,’ then we salute you. There likely isn’t anything structurally wrong with them and therefore it makes perfect environmental sense not to send them all to landfill just for the sake of appearances.
Use vinyl wrapping and give them a glow-up instead. Think of it like a face-lift for your office furniture.
Whether you have an interior designer working on your refurbishment or Linda from accounts just has a natural eye for colour schemes and wants to lead the way, we can work with whomever you put us in front of to achieve your ideal office design.
Interior film comes in hundreds of designs, from different brands and with varying prices to suit all budgets. We have had clients wrap their boardroom tables in everything from plain white to black marble and everything in between.
A boardroom table is the focal point of any meeting room, it makes sense to give people something impressive to talk about when planning your office design. Everyone wants their office to stand out to potential visitors right?
Offices Are a State of Mind
Somebody wiser than me once said ‘tidy space, tidy mind.’
Using vinyl wrapping to make big changes to your office interior means that in just one day, you will see a transformation from run-of-the-mill surroundings to a modern, fresh and classy environment.
If you create an office designed to motivate and inspire your team, they will perform to the best of their ability. We recently wrapped 60 doors at an office in Manchester and the attention to detail over the whole project was incredible, putting employees firmly at the centre of the entire design.
They used different materials to create many different areas, some that were individual, some that encouraged team working and others that felt more formal. There was something for everyone. And at 7 am, some of the staff were there (presumably for a 9 am start), in a good mood and having a coffee with their colleagues. Their office is a place they want to be, possibly because they have an iPad that makes their coffee for them but still…it’s all in the detail.
Create Dynamic Office Design Concepts Quickly
Budgets are a crucial part of any refurbishment process. If you don’t have the time, budget (or energy) to face a back-to-brick refurbishment of your entire office, you aren’t alone.
The disruption and expense traditional refurbishment causes can be off-putting to most people. However, if you choose to use vinyl wrapping to upgrade your office environment, then you are looking at minimal disruption whilst maximising your budget.
Here is an idea of the timescales you would be looking at if you were to choose vinyl wrapping. One person can wrap: 8 doors in a day, 32 locker doors in a day or a large boardroom table in 3 hours.
Because there is no noise involved in the wrapping process (apart from the hum of a heat gun occasionally) your team can carry on working whilst we are upgrading your furniture. There are no smells and no drying period when installing vinyl wrapping either, so your surfaces can be used as normal as soon as we have finished – there is no wait time.
Previous Office Design Projects
To give a little more background on how we have helped other companies to achieve a great-looking office interior design, we have transformed boardroom tables and reception desks for companies working in IT, finance and car dealerships, doors for the head offices at DFS in Doncaster and for Orega’s new flagship location in Manchester’s business district (they were the ones with the coffee-making iPad), lifts at Bloc for Cubic Works who pave the way with futuristic office designs, and office kitchens from locations in Stoke to Lancashire.
Check out our casestudies of before and after photos of what can be achieved, either as a standalone vinyl wrapping project or as part of a full refurbishment in line with a specification from interior designers or architects.
Can’t make up your mind? We have samples to suit every colour scheme to help you create an office design to wow your clients and team.
If you would like more information or for an estimate, we can provide this from photos and some measurements. Get in touch with us by email on hello@recruitment.bluewing.digital
