Did you know that your work environment directly affects productivity? The team at Iris Construction Management realizes that having a highly productive team is the key to success. We’ve asked our expert team to come up with some small business design ideas to help add a little excitement to your office.
Your workspace is where your team builds relationships and communicates your vision and mission. Employees need to feel productive, creative and at ease in this space. Is your brand reflected in your office design?
If your workspace is lacking a little pizzazz, take a look at these small business office interior design ideas:
Explore Designs
Get Googling, pull up Pinterest, and hop onto Houzz. Gather up design ideas you love and envision them in your workspace. Remember, you can’t make everything work, so go in with a plan and decide what design ideas will result in a cohesive, creative, and functional space.
Our expert advice: Take your time with your small business design ideas so your efforts aren’t wasted on what won’t work.
Purge Items
It’s time to declutter. Is there decor that doesn’t spark joy? Have your office participate in adding to the keep, donate, sell, and trash piles so it’s a collaborative effort. It’s their space too!
Uncomfortable furniture or equipment that doesn’t get used shouldn’t have a spot in your small business design plan. And the best part, ditch the documents that aren’t necessary for your business.
Our expert advice: Get an immediate transformation in the look and feel of your office — just from decluttering!
Reimage Spaces
Use your space to its fullest potential. People work best in different ways, so lean into creating spaces where people feel the most productive. Give people the ability to move from a desk to a couch in a communal area, or move things around to make the office environment work for them. Make sure you can point out quiet and communal spaces in your plan.
Reimage forgotten corners into a coffee bar, a reading nook, or a break space. Add things that boost morale to empty areas like interactive walls, a fish tank, a treadmill, or a mini lounge spot.
Our expert advice: While using your space is best, don’t be afraid to keep some white space in your design.
Map the Area
What are the areas of high and low activity? Can these be used more effectively? Consider how your office flows and map out your small business interior design plan in zones. Find the central areas that your team gravitates towards. If the water cooler is your current communal spot, why not move it to your designated communal space?
Our expert advice: Well-designed zones can increase productivity. Don’t discourage community zones — that’s often where creativity sparks!
Experiment with Ideas
Do you really need those filing cabinets? Go paperless if that works for your office. It may be practical for some small businesses to nix the idea of one desk per person with an increase of staff working remotely and an increase in open communal spaces in the workplace.
Our expert advice: Get your team’s advice on new ideas. Maybe they would be willing to sacrifice their own desk for a bigger communal area? It doesn’t hurt to try something new.
Brand the Room
Include elements of your branding in your small business design ideas. Include branding elements like your colours, fonts, vision and mission, and logo.
Our expert advice: Including branding around the office also makes it easier for your small business to stand out on your social media pages. Your cohesive colours around the office will make it easy for your photos to match the graphics you post.
Include Colour and Life
A healthy workspace environment includes natural light, plants, colours, and a great heating and cooling system.
Our expert advice: Make your employees love your office by showing them you care about their well-being with your new small business interior design plans.
If you need help turning your office environment into a modern workplace that you are proud to show off, give Iris Construction Management a call for a free, no-obligation consultation.