A few months ago, I became inspired to improve our office environment. My goals included:
- Open up the space – we knocked down three walls in the office, combining the tech and design areas.
- Bring in more natural light – knocking down the walls allowed more light in from the perimeter offices.
- Get rid of barriers between people – all office desk hutches were disassembled and removed.
- Improve lighting – replace flourecent lights with halogen spotlights and track lighting.
- Improve the colors of the walls – we had the office painted with a warmer color.
- Add more markerboards – we use markerboards a lot, so we got industrial markerboards from www.uwco.net.
- New flooring – I wanted to remove all carpet from the floors, but we settled for having the carpets professionally cleaned.
- Hang examples of our work – we created a wall of work examples that you pass as you walk into our office now.
After accomplishing all of these goals, I stepped back to admire our office space, and to see what else it needed to turn it into a true design studio. The thing that really jumped out at me is that we have collected quite an array of different computer desks over the years. Some were 6 feet wide, some were 5 feet wide, and two were 4 feet wide. All were made of that particle board that I hate. So the next goal became:
- Get new desks.
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