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.

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!!!

Reception Area Seating & Chairs

Since your reception area is the “living room” of your office space, it is important to make sure that you have seating that is  professional, stylish & comfortable.

Who sits in this “Living Room”?

It is your customers, vendors and other visitors to your company.  It is from this seating area that the visitors of your business start forming an opinion of your company and the owner.  If the visitor is sitting in a plain old chair, the impression is going to say “we are just another plain old company” at best.

However if a forward thinking owner cares what his visitors think of the company he/she will make the investment to assure that the seating is comfortable and elegant for their guests.  In a medical reception area waiting room, this should be the rule not the exception!

In a medical practice reception area, patients, let’s call them clients, are often waiting for long periods of time.  To top it off, chances are they have some sort of ailment that has sent them to your medical practice.  By making an investment in seating to assure that your clients are comfortable, you will give your clients peace of mind that they are at a doctor’s office that cares about their patients.

The best way to achieve this:

Plan the reception area for the patients, not for the doctors.

Laminate Reception Desks

If you want a nice beautiful and functional reception desk at an affordable price, then we suggest you explore a laminate reception desks as an option.  When you look at laminate reception desks, there are some things you should know.

The process that laminate manufactures use to make their product will determine the quality.    For example,  some companies laminate only the sides that are seen such as the top and sides of a reception desk, either leaving the area under the receptions desk or on top of overheads and bookcases with exposed wood core or some sort of thin sheet of contact paper.  Higher quality manufactures fully wrap each piece in laminate.  Having each piece fully wrapped in laminate adds to the quality and the structure of the furniture.  Be sure for longevity to always look for furniture that is fully wrapped with laminate.

Most laminate companies have out of the box reception desk they sell.   The company we recommend Three-H, has a manufacturing process that is set up to make furniture that is custom, at non-custom prices.  Their marketing slogan is furniture to the inch.

Since all spaces are not created equal, this gives our clients an opportunity to get a custom reception area desk,  at an affordable price.  Additionally these receptions desks are modular, and can be configured if you move to a new location, or need to redesign the reception area.

You can also add glass or a wood bull nose edge to sharpen up your piece, without breaking the budget.

Since your reception desk is the first thing that is seen when entering your space, we suggest that you take the time and make the investment to do it right the first time.