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Zoning Space in the Office

With paint or decorative plaster, you can easily highlight a specific sector. In addition to zoning space, you can lay carpet of different colors on the floor or other contrasting floor coverings.

When the walls are painted in the desired colors and the floor is divided into zones, you can add designer slats. Slats can either replace a wall or simply be an element of a stylish office space, located on the wall and separating, for example, the reception area from the entrance.

Between the slats, you can place LED strips in the color of the wall – you will get a pleasant color scheme. They can be not only on the wall but also on the ceiling. For the entrance in front of the reception desk, you can place a sofa that will be in an area highlighted with contrasting wallpaper.

Another option for the ceiling is zoning the office with drywall painted in one color. Moreover, such a partition can also be along the wall. It does not have to be a sharply large protrusion. It can have a purely design function.

From drywall, you can also build an entire wall on a metal frame if a solid brick and concrete wall is not needed. Such a wall can be wallpapered, painted, and have your office sign or a printed banner of your company hung on it.

The reception desk is often decorated with a shelving unit to separate the reception area from the rest of the office.

Every decent employer not only loads with responsibilities and sets tasks but also thinks about a relaxation area or smoking room. If we are talking about relaxation, such a room should have a window, but the possibilities of the premises vary. Glass partitions are best suited. And it is not at all necessary that it be a transparent wall with the company logo; you can install double glass with water and circulating bubbles inside. Well, if you want to achieve complete detachment with a cup of coffee on the sofa, place an aquarium in the wall.

Glass zoning in the office is indispensable; it preserves the light that streams from the windows and penetrates everywhere. You should not make meeting rooms with checkered or dotted walls. They make you dizzy, but glass partitions will help focus attention on the interlocutor in front of you, and your dialogue will be constructive.

Glass partitions are definitely not suitable for dividing your company's departments into zones. To make it comfortable for a manager to work at a computer, plastic office partitions are suitable. The sound of a buzzing phone will reflect off the glass surface, and the office will turn into a rattle, giving employees a headache at the end of the day. Plastic of different colors will turn each workplace into a mini-office: important sticky notes, papers, photos, calendars – these are what plastic can withstand, while the partition remains mobile.

What about the kitchen? It can be separated with sliding doors to avoid bumping into each other in the hallway for a cup of coffee. The kitchen should not be transparent. In the morning, the cleaning crew cleans the coffee machine, and most likely no one is interested in watching that.

The boss's private office? Here, of course, you cannot do without a partition for zoning the office into a private office. It can be either a mobile flat wall or a prefabricated structure. In niches along the prefabricated wall, you can put books, magazines, and folders that you always want to have at hand. Doors are better to be glass. It is possible to create a window in the wall with blinds, but as a rule, the office is expected to be soundproofed.

Why do you need to purchase a mobile partition for the office? No one is going to change clothes, right? Actually, that's not true. It's worth having such a mobile partition, for example, in case of a buffet. Why not celebrate a holiday with the team in the office, no worse than a nightclub? With a mobile partition, you can aesthetically hide the catering kitchen and changing waiters, hosts, and others. The screen can be ordered with a photo, with fabric, with blinds, with plastic, or a screen-hanger.

Based on materials from: evrozaluzi.com.ua