Reception Area Design-Carpet Tiles

It is a smart move to incorporate carpet tiles into your reception area design.  Carpet tiles often called “modular carpet tiles” in the design industry have become widely recommended by thousands of professionals for many reasons.

The main advantage of using the carpet tile option over your typical “broadloom” carpet roll is that as they wear out over years of heavy use, you can easily replace them, without having to redo the whole reception area space.

As you can imagine, the carpet where you get all the traffic will wear out much faster than in areas without traffic. As these get worn out and dirty, you can easily remove those existing tiles and place down new ones.

Carpet tiles come in various sizes and styles. They are offered in circular, square and rectangular overall shapes with thousands for patterns available. Sizes can vary from 12″x 12″ to 36″x 36″- depending on which sizes would best fit your reception space. When these tiles are laid out for installation they can be laid to various patterns customized to your space (without the custom costs).  This really gives your space an unique designer touch!

One important thing to remember to if you are going to be using modular carpet tiles is to order extra tiles when you plan your reception area flooring.  The typical suggested overage is about 5-10%. This allows you to have an easier convenience when the carpet tiles are in need of replacement years to come.

Office Space Build Out

Interior designers can take an office space, make that any space and plan it out for you. They will use software to design a floor plan to meet the needs of your particular business. Once the desired floor plan is achieved, the next step is to start getting construction documents made. Part of this process is having a licensed architect stamp off on the drawings before these documents are created.

Now you may ask why not have an architect do the planning of the build out for your space?

Well there are several reasons to work directly with an interior designer instead of an architect on your office build out.

First, interior designers are specially trained to do the interior of spaces, hence their title. While architects are capable of doing the interior design, architects generally do not focus on the interiors, but usually focus on the building as a whole. Having a specialist like an interior designer design the interior will give you a better overall design of your space. I would compare and contrast an interior designer and an architect to the medical field. You would go to your general doctor if you had a problem with your shoulder. The doctor would then send you to see a specialist who deals with shoulders all the time, also known as a specialist.

The same is true for office space design. You should see a specialist when it comes to designing the interior of your space.

Second, your office, medical or reception space will need to have someone who is trained to assist you in selecting a color scheme for your space. An interior designer is trained to be able to design your space to look and feel great. By using the proper colors, your space will be a desired place to be.

Finally, you should consider hiring an interior designer because of the cost savings. You can get an interior designer to create a floor plan and layout for your office space build out much less expensive then you can an architect. This might be the best reason to make sure that you explore this avenue for your office space build out.

Medical Reception Area Design

The medical office space reception area gets a lot of traffic, and the reception area design is crucial to the  flow and efficiency of patients, as well as their psyche.

As a patient walks in the reception area, they have to check in with the reception desk, and then take a seat and wait to be called to go back to the patient room.   Then that patient has to check out when they are done.   When this is all done in the reception area, it can get chaotic if it does not flow properly, and if there is any slight delay and patients start to back up, the chaos can become apparent.  Throw in current Hippa privacy laws and you can more issues then I even want to cover here in this rant!

An often over looked aspect of the reception area design is the way it presents itself.  If it is sterile and boring, it will irritate patients as they wait for their appointment.  Especially if their appointment time has come and gone and they are not yet taken to see the doctor.  Creating a pleasing atmosphere will help temper patients attitudes as they wait for their turn to see the doctor.

An interior designer is not only able to help you systematically control this chaos, but will also make your space look great in achieving that goal.  Sure you could buy chairs and pick out some paint & carpet colors for your space and “doctor” it up yourself.  But did you go to  school and get a degree in interior design?  A professional knows the value of hiring a professional.

A great medical practice that truly cares about comfort of their patients would spend a little extra money to get it done right.  They would hire a specialist, that is an interior designer to design the reception area.  Just as a patience sees a specialist because of their experience and expertise to help with an ailment or disease, an interior designer is your specialist to design your medical office practice space.

The choice is yours.  Good or Great.

Designer or do it yourself!!!