Imagine someone walking through your front door for the first time. Maybe it’s a new hire, a client, or a patient walking into your office. It could also be a parent touring your school. Within seconds, that person will form opinions about your organization based on the space around them.

The furniture placement? The setup of the lighting? The flow between rooms? All of it will speak volumes about your business before a single staff member gets the chance to say hello. Do you know what story you want your space to tell? And are your current design and furniture choices telling that story while meeting your team’s needs?  

These two elements – the story your space tells and whether your space serves your team and the work you want to do – are integral elements that a lot of organizations miss when they think about office design.  

Commercial interior design (such as planning an office layout) brings up more decisions and requires more expertise than most people realize. There are several decisions to make, such as deciding on desk placements, picking conference table sizes, setting up cable routing, and figuring out who will install everything. This requires a team with a proper amount of expertise. For organizations across Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania that need fresh workspace designs, Interiors by Guernsey can take that work off your plate. Here’s how we do it. 

How Interiors by Guernsey Designs Spaces That Work 

Workspace planning is a specialty of ours. We have handled projects for healthcare, hospitality, education, government, and corporate offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. From single offices to entire buildings, we’ve got the workplace design know-how your business needs. The specific demands of your industry will rarely catch our team off guard.  

At Interiors by Guernsey, each project begins with design and consulting. Our workspace design process looks a little like this: 

Consultation and Design 

First, one of our furniture specialists walks through the workspace to assess it. During this time, they will ask how people use the space on a day to day basis. From there, one of our designers will create mockups to showcase their layout suggestions for each room in your space. This serves as a plan that brings everything together based on how people and furniture pieces move throughout the room. The layout mapping also serves to highlight the best places to put storage solutions, as well as the specific types that are needed (this is especially important for government agencies).  

Technology gets a place to live too, as outlets and cable paths will be mapped out before any furniture piece even gets ordered. All those office add-ons and accessories that so often get overlooked? We don’t forget about those at Interiors by Guernsey. We know that the implementation of specific tools like monitor risers and dry erase boards matter just as much as the choices for furniture. 

Once the plan for the room is settled, furniture selection comes next. That means furniture procurement is next on the docket. 

Furniture Procurement 

Working with a local supplier is a huge boon when handling furniture procurement. Having a local furniture supplier like ours means you get a team that knows which manufacturers’ products will work best for your specific space, budget, and schedule.  

We know the local school calendars for educational facilities and how to navigate school budgets. These are very real challenges that some vendors simply don’t know about, ones that can hold up deliveries and installation. This then holds up the new design of your workspace, hotel, healthcare, or educational facility, which will in turn inhibit its functionality. 

Delivery and Installation 

Installation is the last piece of the puzzle, and it gets underestimated more than any other part of the process. Moving a hundred desks into a building is a logistics job all on its own. Crews from Interiors by Guernsey handle assembly and placement, so the space is ready to use the day the project wraps. It’s our job to ensure that any installations do not impede upon your workflow.

Design Better and Smarter with Interiors by Guernsey  

If you’re looking for a local vendor who can handle the entire job, from the first design sketch to the last chair getting bolted into place, Interiors by Guernsey is the place to call. For workspace design projects across Washington DC, MD, VA, and PA, our team has everything you need to create a space that works for everyone on your team. From redesigns of single healthcare offices to full furniture implementations for government buildings, we can handle it all. 

Ready to get started on building a better workspace?