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Furniture Friday: Connect It by OFD

7/29/2016

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by Gillian Morris

Statton Design Group has over 23 years of experience as a commercial interior design firm in the Dallas area. In our blog, we use our experience to provide insight into various aspects of commercial interior design and offer tips we have gleaned through our years of experience with local DFW clients.

One of our favorite furniture products is the Connect It series of desking from Office Furniture Distributors (OFD). (In fact, we love it so much that we use Connect-It for our  Statton Design Group office desks!) We love this innovative product because it is modular, modern, colorful, durable, and completely customizable! It's also exceptionally affordable and has recently expanded into areas beyond desking like conference tables.

We're excited to provide this high-quality product to even more clients in the future! For more information, check out the OFD website and contact us to learn more about the deep list-price discounts we offer on all OFD products.

Want to learn more about products like the Connect It series? Contact us at Statton Design Group for a free design or furniture consultation. If you're in the Southlake, TX or Dallas Fort Worth area, we would love to set up a time to meet in person. Give us a call, send us an email or leave your comments below to start finding your design solution!
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The Flexible Workspace

7/26/2016

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At Statton Design Group, we are always on the lookout for trends in commercial interior design that will help us tailor our services and furniture selections to the changing tastes of our Dallas Fort Worth area clients. Every Tuesday we will feature a trend that has caught our attention and discuss how this trend is affecting our approach to commercial interior design with our local DFW clients and whether or not it's here to stay.

by Gillian Morris

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Flexible workspaces are all the rage in offices today. Flexibility can be introduced into the workplace through multiple different avenues—for example, by making the office feel more like home, or by allowing for rapid change in a space's layout or function. The latter is becoming increasingly more important for companies as rental agreements are trending more short-term, making easy-to-move furniture items essential for these modern workplaces.

Short-term leases are useful for growing companies because they allow them to reassess their rental spaces at the pace of their growth. As Common Desk founder and CEO Nick Clark told Dallas/Fort Worth Bisnow, “You can't lock in a five- or seven-year lease when you're going through incredible growth and don't know how many employees you'll have in 12 months.”

Because lending companies have to keep up with this growing demand for short-term rental spaces, many of their properties are open-plan, blank slates that naturally elicit flexible furniture and design solutions from their tenants. At Statton Design Group, we work with many companies who are presented with this unique challenge of adapting “blank slate” spaces to their particular business needs. Here are a few design and furniture solutions that we have found helpful along the way.

Modular Workstations

Historically, modular furniture has earned a negative reputation through its association with the notorious cubicle. Today's modular furniture options are sleeker, more open, customizable, and more conducive to a flexible office environment.
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Connect It Workstations by OFD
​One of our favorite modular furniture options is the Connect It series of products by Office Furniture Distributors, a local Dallas area vendor based in Carrollton, TX. Need to change a layout, add a desk, increase your storage, or remove a divider panel? Connect It makes all of these tasks flexible, affordable and easy.

Put It on Casters

Easiest way to make your space more flexible? Put casters on your furniture! This enhanced mobility allows you to easily move furniture to different areas of an office depending on the varying needs of the day. On-the-go layout change is exactly what many businesses are looking for when enhancing their space's flexibility.
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PS Furniture Snap™ Portable Tables.
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​We love Wisconsin-based PS Furniture's Snap™ portable tables for this very reason: they are light, durable, mobile, and folding for easy storage. Can't get much more flexible than that!

Breakout Areas

Breakout areas are the conference rooms of the flexible office. Breakout areas are great for a few reasons: 1) they naturally segment open plan spaces into areas with discrete functions, 2) they are often easy to erect and easy to move (a la casters!) and 3) they seemingly materialize collaboration and creativity among employees by providing all of the amenities of a conference room space without the aloof formality of slick leather seating.
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Keep™ Modular Wall System arrangments by Mayline
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Mayline, another one of our Wisconsin-based vendors, has a fantastic product for such areas called Keep. Keep is a modular system that allows clients to customize their breakout areas with fold-out tables, media options, whiteboards, walls, storage, and much more. We love working with Mayline and we're very excited to use their Keep collection in some of our client's breakout areas.

Every Wall is a Whiteboard

Whiteboards are a stand-in image of collaboration and are also extremely effective at enabling workplaces to become more flexible. Strategically placing whiteboards on the few walls in an open-plan space makes every wall an opportunity for collaboration, meetings, or instant breakout sessions.
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Aria glass markerboard by Ghent, in blue.
​Our favorite markerboards are glass. The one shown above is made by Ghent and comes in a variety of colors and customizable options. Glass is a sharp-looking alternative to traditional whiteboards that can double as a projection surface or display area without appearing cheap or out-of-place.

Color Coding

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We love using color in our client's spaces. Many companies have been utilizing color as a way to code various areas according to function or activity. This makes for very flexible offices as modifying the function of an area or its activities is as easy as changing the color.

With the right design team at the helm, any business can successfully convert their space into a mobile office with optimum flexibility for future expansion and growth. At Statton Design Group, we frequently help clients achieve these goals through our interior design expertise and our close relationships with a variety of innovative furniture vendors. Let us know how we can help you with your next project!

Looking for ways to make your business’ workspace more flexible? Want more information or pricing on any of the above furniture products? Contact us at Statton Design Group for a free design consultation. If you're in the Southlake, TX or Dallas Fort Worth area, we would love to set up a time to meet in person. Give us a call or send us an email to start finding your design solution!
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The Great Outdoors

7/12/2016

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by Gillian Morris

At Statton Design Group, we are always on the lookout for trends in commercial interior design that will help us tailor our services and furniture selections to the changing tastes of our Dallas Fort Worth area clients. Every Tuesday we will feature a trend that has caught our attention and discuss how this trend is affecting our approach to commercial interior design with our local DFW clients and whether or not it's here to stay.

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One of the trends we are loving right now at Statton Design Group is what we are calling "The Great Outdoors." Our Dallas-area clients are increasingly looking to incorporate elements of the natural world into their commercial interior design projects, as are many other businesses across the country.

​Although recently popularized, this trend is by no means a new idea. For as long as people have worked indoors, they have longed to transpose the beauty of the natural world into their chaotic and sterile office environments. As Thoreau wrote over 150 years ago, "There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature." He may have been on to something--scientific evidence has long touted the physical, emotional, and psychological health benefits of plants, sunlight, and other natural elements in our environment.
"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature." 
​- Thoreau
Living Walls are the poster-child for bringing the outdoors into the workplace. They have been circulating on social media for a few years now, but have only recently become a widely-distributed product of commercial contract vendors. Essentially, living walls are arrangements of plants that have been mounted in some sort of decorative frame that can be hung to create a feature wall. During our recent trip to NeoCon, we connected with one such manufacturer called Garden on the Wall. We love their products and are very excited to move one of their items into a client's space very soon!
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​Bringing The Great Outdoors into your workplace can include a variety of design elements in addition to plant life, such as fire and water features, or natural stone. The key is finding the design element that fits best with your company aesthetic and works within the unique constraints of your space.

What aspect of nature are you looking forward to incorporating in your commercial design project? Leave us a comment and let us know what outdoorsy elements are on your mind!

For advice on bringing the great outdoors into your commercial interior design project, contact us at Statton Design Group for a free design consultation. If you're in the Southlake, TX or Dallas Fort Worth area, we would love to set up a time to meet in person. Give us a call or send us an email to start finding your design solution!

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