Rising rental costs, smaller teams and flexible working hours have contributed to a growing demand for coworking and hot desking spaces. These spaces combine the ease of renting an office by the hour with the ability to pick a room specific to your day-to-day needs.
When turning the existing office space into a creative coworking space or hot-desking office, what exactly are the most practical and refreshing office decoration ideas to go about? If you ask us, it’s definitely exploring furniture ideas that work well with establishing a fun and conducive coworking space or a hot-desking office. If renovation is not required, selecting the right furniture pieces can easily create a modern office design.
Read on for 5 amazing office decoration ideas for coworking and hot-desking spaces to get your plans going!
Finding Your Balance with Privacy Pods
The ideal coworking or hot-desking space has something for everyone, from conference rooms that fit 3 – 50 people to private rooms designed for optimal focus and quietness. Once you’ve envisioned your ideal theme, it’s time to plan the coworking space or hot-desking design and layout. You will need to have seating diversity as well as communal and private spaces when thinking of your office’s layout design.
Designing a communal space is relatively easy by using an open plan office layout, but what about creating private spaces within the overall layout? Think acoustic phone booths and privacy pods. These convenient furniture items are what busy professionals need to stay free from surrounding distractions while being able to work productively in addition to having uninterrupted conference and personal calls.
Don’t forget to factor in your preferred colour palette, and remember that colour therapy can work wonders in creating a bright, cheery space that invites creativity. Comfort Furniture’s Lull series privacy pods can be customised by selecting your preferred colour for the frames, panels and interiors.
Flexi Furnishings with Storage Trolleys, Modular Sofas, Foldable & Nestable Tables
A good coworking space or hot-desking design is one with plenty of open space so that nobody feels like their private space is being intruded upon. It’s imperative that you pick furniture that allows you to adapt the space to fit your clients’ needs. Multifunctional furniture such as our Turret Mobile Pedestal double as a serving trolley and storage trolley, so that it can be placed anywhere within your coworking or hot-desking space for a sunshiny spot of colour, or used as a handy storage to stash your documents or snacks.
If your budget allows, invest in fun and functional modular sofas like the Oat Midback Modular Sofa or Yin Yang Modular Sofa. They can be used individually or together, and they come with infinite configuration possibilities that’s probably only limited by our own imagination – making it a great coworking or hot-desking space furniture idea.
Not enough tables for everyone to work? Consider shopping for foldable and nestable tables! Comfort Furniture’s Boost folding and nestable seminar table is great as an ad-hoc training table, conference table and even as a reception table for any event. It also comes with a cable storage area to keep the desk tidy as well as an (optional) built-in faceplate with 1 UK power socket and 2 USB ports. For more easy-storing tables and chairs, visit our online or physical store!
Pretty & Practical with Office Desk Decor Ideas
Aesthetic value is pointless if it doesn’t do the job. Create an eye-catching first impression with a well-lit, uncluttered office layout design. For instance, keep things clean and mess-free with Comfort Furniture’s lockers to store belongings safely and give a modern office design. Alternatively, you can opt for the Dan Mobile Pedestal for individual desks.
Having difficulties coming up with desk organisation ideas for desks placed against the wall? Consider storage solutions that double as art installations, such as the Idona Wall Shelf. This particular wall shelf is considered one of the modern office design ideas that can also be used for small office spaces due to its flexible arrangements (before the drilling and screwing, of course).
As with any working space, lighting is an essential part of providing a conducive workplace. If your desk organisation ideas end up consuming most of the space on your desk, hanging or standing lights are excellent alternatives that bring some illumination into the space. Minimalist options such as our Light Table – Simple or Light Stand – Simple are great for providing the much-needed light with minimum intrusion. Most importantly, these lights do not depend on a centralised lighting system, so should an individual or department be putting in the overtime hours, the entire office floor of lights can be switched off to conserve energy. When it comes to designing offices, we should always find ways to reduce our carbon footprint – starting with sustainable furniture and office accessories.
Break It Up with Partitions and Phone Pods
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Create a break area that allows its occupants to relax, grab a bite or stop by for a chat. While a little chit chat can go a long way in boosting creativity, it shouldn’t be at the expense of the others who are trying to work. Install movable sound-absorbing partitions that are designed to double up as décor such as the Tree Partition or Pulp Partition to separate your coworking or hot-desking space while adding refreshing colours to the area. Not only do they help break up open spaces for different uses, they also help minimise the noise that comes with sharing a space, making them great décor options for office break rooms.
But if you want your co-workers to be as quiet as a church mouse during their break time, consider our Lull Privacy Pod – Phone to have a dedicated space for making phone calls and a table ledge to take quick notes from your phone conversation. The use of acoustic privacy pods has become a must-have for open concept offices these days!
Naturally Inclined to Some Office Greenery
Humans are naturally drawn to nature and life in general. Inject some greenery into your office break room’s décor for a relaxing vibe. If potted plants or air plants are too much of a hassle and your office layout design doesn’t include space for a green area or garden, artificial grass and artificial planters can help give the illusion of being closer to nature without the mess it often comes with.
Comfort Furniture has gorgeous artificial trees like our faux Olive, Ficus and Areca Palm trees, to name a few. Depending on how frequently you’ll like to shift these trees around, we’ve 2 categories of artificial trees to meet your needs. Those in wicker baskets are lighter in weight and are good for moving around — a good match to your modular furniture. The others are in heavy cement pots which deter people from moving them while being non-permanent, aesthetic demarcation as they aren’t bolted down.
Planter boxes such as our Cabinet Planter Box also make wonderful space separators without incorporating walls, while housing up to 3 plants.
Designing your office layout shouldn’t have to be a stressful chore. Give your coworking or hot-desking space an instant upgrade with Comfort Furniture’s range of office furniture and accessories today.
