Month: August 2015

Prepare  - M .  Sarah Bashir

Office décor has become one of the main concerns of companies and organizations to increase the efficiency of their employees, while the appearance and décor in the workplace is one of the components of the success of the organization.

Adequate space should be allocated to each desk depending on its use, as well as adequate lighting and ventilation, and the space required to sit and stand easily is measured by the distance between the person and the seat, depending on the position in front of walls, other tables or other equipment.

Module in administrative offices:

When designing administrative buildings, you must rely on a model in the horizontal projection and in the facades and sectors, whether the building is brick, iron, aluminum, glass or reinforced concrete. Where the model that gives the best solution for the building on which the interior design is based is chosen, and this model depends on the area of the room, which can determine the number of workers in it and the type of work they do, and the dimensions are calculated so that natural lighting can be relied on in office lighting to a large extent.

Office rooms

The maximum depth of the office from the window should not exceed 6 meters and in special cases it can reach 7.5 meters.  The office space ranges from 24 to 40 square meters.

Directors' rooms can be even larger, with space for small meetings and a secretarial room that ranges in size from 8 to 20 square meters. As for the open halls, their size depends on the work done in them and the way the desks are placed.

Archive rooms

The archive rooms should be close to the staff room, and their area depends on the size of the archives to be kept there,  It can be the same height as the office rooms and can be lower.

Drawing room

Preferred lighting in drawing rooms should come from the north or northwest  Preferably a loft room to get the right lighting without reflections.

Key elements of the office

اFor flooring: The administrative office has a lot of movement from employees and clients while performing work, so we found that the rugs succeeded in treating the sounds produced by the floors, and also the aesthetic form is very suitable and easy to use with the rest of the decor.

ceilings: Making an overlap between the falling ceilings «60*60 tiles and gypsum board» is very important with an appropriate difference between them, as the materials varied in their sound absorption, moisture and fire resistance, and their use is very important and highlights the decoration mainly.

Walls: There is no doubt that wall treatment is the basis of interior decoration and the work of glass partitions in the administrative space to separate offices is very important and its use has become essential, and it is necessary to choose wood for the walls of the president or CEO's room after choosing the color of the wood, after that comes the choice of the color of painting the other walls, as the paint is complementary to the style of wood in decoration, taking into account the coordination between them.

Accessories: In administrative office decorations, accessories are one of the strongest linking factors in interior decoration «art painting, corners, plants, antiques, carpets, lighting, curtains» and it needs great precision because its success is the success of the interior decoration, and accessories that are in harmony with the decor of the place show the beauty of the design, and its main task is to distract silence and boredom from the environment of the place and must choose appropriate colors, and wallpaper has become an important presence in interior decoration because it adds distinct aesthetic touches, especially when there is coherence between colors and furniture, wallpaper enters to be complementary to them.

Chairman's Office

The chairman's office and meeting rooms should have a link between them in terms of taking into account giving the space its value by making wooden wrinkles in the walls, because it gives luxury to the space and the choice of wood color varies from one person to another according to the psychological comfort of the color and the nature of the work of the space in the place.

After choosing the color of the wood, the paint color comes to accentuate the walls, as the paint color complements the wooden decor and must be coordinated with it. Wooden parquet floors, then add accessories to showcase the beauty of the design.

Staff offices

In designing office décor, colors should be chosen based on the type of organization and its identity.

The choice of white color in most paints and the introduction of turquoise color to attract the eye and the use of glass partitions in administrative offices is very important because it creates a kind of communication between individuals and the manager can follow the employees while sitting in his place and the most important thing is that it allows light to enter the space. As well as choosing dark color combinations for tiles and carpets.

Office decor design guidelines:

1- When starting to work on the interior decoration of the space, it is necessary to make a simple study of the space from the area and window openings to know the lighting in the space and know the nature of the work and also know the general taste of the customer so that you can make a design based on a correct system.

2- Distributing spaces in a very appropriate way that corresponds to the requirements of the workplace without wasting spaces while preserving movement corridors.

3- Choosing the appropriate identity and colors for the nature of the work, and this requires full awareness of the type of offices, whether commercial, administrative or residential, and the nature of the work and its connection to the activity of the establishment.

4- Choosing the materials used in the treatment of ceilings, walls and floors and their suitability for the nature of the space, and developing alternatives to expensive materials and employing them in more than one decent way, which is one of the factors that make the decoration successful and bring it out in a more beautiful way than normal with minimal costs.

5- Using the right furniture in terms of size, quality, and fit Visualize the final look, as furniture is very important in accentuating the décor because it complements it.