If you’ve ever wondered how you can achieve a beautifully designed office space for less, you’ve come to the right place. With just a few simple ideas you can create a healthy, happy and productive office environment.
DIY decoration
It may not have been on the original entrepreneur job description but picking up a paintbrush yourself is an easy way to help keep the costs down. Just remember health and safety so that you don’t put yourself, customers or employees in harm’s way. That means only painting when its safe to do so, cordoning off the area, using the right painting equipment and signage, and most important of all ensuring that the area gets proper ventilation.
Go open plan
An open plan layout means that you get to avoid the costs of constructing interior walls or cubicles and spend less on shared office equipment. Open-plan offices also have the benefit of allowing your team members to feel closer together and develop better office culture. Along with that, a multimedia service like LoopTV can be used in connection with a television. Employees can sit, watch, and relax together by watching shows and sports. This arrangement can be easily done in an open area office.
Depending on your line of work it may still be a good idea to fence off a small part of the office for meetings or confidential conversations, or you could just take sensitive discussions offsite.
Buy second hand office furniture
Second hand furniture is an easy path to furnishing your office without emptying your bank account. All around you businesses are outgrowing their office space or even going out of business altogether. Whatever the situation the outcome is the same, perfectly usable office equipment is now either destined to be recycled or simply discarded. If you’re in the right place at the right time you may be able to grab yourself a bargain. Below we’ve listed a few common ways you can find second hand office furniture:
- Keep an eye on the back pages of your local newspaper, or online on local forums
- Reach out to your business network in person or on a business social media network like LinkedIn
- Visit any local office blocks and ask the building services team if they know of any businesses that are moving or shutting down
Use LED lighting
It’s a very simple choice, but just by switching to cheap LED light bulbs from sites like all-lights.co.uk your business could look better and start saving money immediately, here’s why:
- LEDs are more energy efficient than traditional bulbs meaning you save money on electricity
- Many LED lights have a life span of as much as 50,000 hours, which is considerably more than the average halogen or traditional light
- Switching them on and off does not shorten their lifespan unlike traditional bulbs
- LEDs are available in a wide range of sizes giving you excellent design flexibility
- LEDs can generate all the colours of the visible light spectrum, meaning that its easier than ever to experiment with different light colours without needing to buy coloured lighting accessories
If you’re trying to make the switch from traditional lights to LED lighting, try to contact an electrician from Barnett Electrical (you can find more info on https://barnettelectrical.com/commercial-services/) or other similar firms. Perhaps they can help you determine which lights work best.
Do you still even need an office?
If recent times have taught us anything it’s that it may not be necessary to pay for an office all year round. Should you still need a central base for your team to meet, serviced office solutions like We Work can offer an affordable flexible alternative.
