Height adjustable office desks and office furniture from Exeter supplier.

Office furniture suppliers MD Business Interiors Devon Ltd based in Exeter, are pleased to show you the height adjustable office desks available from Lee and Plumpton.

They have a 10 warranty and are available on a 5-10 working day lead time.

You can adjust your position and posture easily for maximum comfort throughout the day. The Height Adjustable Desk range is available in a choice of 2 desk shapes, Wave and Rectangular. Both of these desks shapes are supplied with a straight wooden modesty panel.

Available with Silver metal work in a choice of wood finishes:

Beech, Birch, Light Oak, White, Maple, Walnut and Cherry.

We have a full range of matching storage and accessories. We also have a wide range of seating and offer free AutoCAD design and space planning.

For more information on prices and availability contact us via phone 01392 834980 or email here.

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AURA BENCH office furniture, a modern classic!

Exeter based office dealers MD Business Interiors are pleased to tell you about the AURA BENCH office furniture range from Lee and Plumpton. Serving business customers across Devon and Cornwall this range of office desks has a 10 YEAR warranty and is available from stock in 5-10 working days. The AURA BENCH is the complete cable managed solution, using a fixed top and contemporary design, it offers maximum flexibility for space efficient office desking in the modern office environment.

AURA BENCH is ideal for collaborative workspaces. The bench format breaks down visual and spatial barriers and encourages spontaneous communication between people and groups.

 

 

Specification

Floating top desk design made from 25mm Grade E1 melamine faced high density particle board with  a 3mm edging.  The intermediate leg adds extra strength and support. Height levelling feet as standard. A Scallop design is featured at the rear of each desk.

Frame

Stylish laser cut profile end frame made from a continuous 2mm steel tube for extra strength. Wood finishes are heat, stain and scratch resistant when used for their intended purposes.

Cable Management

All bench systems are supplied with integrated cable management to span the full width of the desk configuration. Cable management is angled to provide easy access through the large portholes to cables and power units.
Additional cable management and accessories are available to purchase separately.
Available with optional sliding top.

Pedestal Specification

25mm top and drawer fronts with an 18mm unit. Silver Bow handles. Steel options also available.

For more information and space planning service please contact our Sales Director via email here.

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Office furniture and space planning for your business…..

We are experts on office design and space planning. Based on Marsh Barton in Exeter, Devon we help clients from all sectors of business to make the best use of the space available to them.

Office space planning describes the methods used to design and arrange office layouts so that staff can work together in departmental and team groupings, providing the best opportunity for efficient work flow, communication and supervision.

Office layout designs should provide an environment suitable for the business needs of the organisation. For example: call centres undertake their business ‘on screen’ and require small desk areas per staff member, minimum document storage, and may have limited requirements for photocopying facilities and printing. In contrast, companies handling paper based documentation like architects or accountants will require larger desks for their staff, storage for records, archive facilities, photocopying and printing facilities close to hand.

Organisations often have an informal policy on the desk footprint for each staff position. Different functions need different size work spaces. Some may work in open plan offices whereas managers may have individual offices. In open plan offices screens are sometimes used between desks to reduce noise and provide an element of privacy.

Space planning

We look at the way people move through a space to perform their daily tasks.  Our interior plans work with the natural flow and facilitate the functions that take place within the building.  The room shapes, business functions, acoustics, lighting and tactile response of the interiors are fundamental to the whole design concept.  Materials and furnishings are selected with great care — they help to generate the sensory experience for people at work, at their studies, or at play.

Our interior design specialists work closely with architectural and building services teams.  Together they produce design themes that work beautifully for either new-build projects or refurbishments.  At every stage, we are keen to consult with stakeholders and end users.  We seek their opinion on samples of furniture, lighting, finishes, fabrics, colours, and accessories.  Our inclusive approach means that we consider the special needs of users from the outset.

We undertake the following services on any integrated design projects and individual commissions incorporating comprehensive, interactive end-user consultations:

Filing surveys
Space planning and CAD furniture layout
Cost-effective procurement of fixtures, fittings, and equipment
Planning and management for office moves
Design for people with special needs.

We work with all sectors designing for businesses, offices, schools, warehouses, sports facilities, hotels, and restaurants.

Whether your project involves relocation and design of a new space, expansion or consolidation of an existing facility or cosmetic enhancements, MD Business Interiors can provide you with creative practical solutions that will provide efficient and effective use of space.

Get in touch with us via email here or call 01392 834980.

 

 

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Connex bench desking, new range!

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MD Business Interiors based in Exeter, Devon are pleased to present to you the new office furniture Connex bench desking range from DAMS.

As bench solutions are becoming more popular and mainstream in open plan offices, the Connex range has been developed in response to modern office design and is a more cost effective office furniture alternative to the popular Adapt II benching solution from Dams.

Elegant Simplicity

Connex bench desking is based on one principle – simplicity. With its clean lines and elegant form, Connex office furniture offers a choice of classic tried and tested configurations from a single desk to hundreds of workstations in a wide variety of sizes to fit any office space.

Looking The Part

Desktops are available in five finishes ensuring Connex looks the part in any office environment. The legs can be shared between bench clusters, which not only look aesthetically pleasing, but save space and decreases costs, whilst incorporating very effective horizontal and vertical cable management.

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Assembly per cluster is quick and easy through its highly engineered parts which further increase the system’s functionality. Through its twin fixed beam steel frame construction, Connex is robust enough to cope with the rigours of a busy office and is the ideal modular workspace system for high density office spaces.

For more information cal 01392 834980 or email here.

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Create a healthier working environment with sit-stand desks!

The days when the only choices for office furniture and desks was which colour and whether to opt for straight or curved are long gone. The office furniture industry has evolved and changed to make the office healthier. These days, desk choice is not only about aesthetics, it’s also about working practices, productivity and well being, which is why office furniture and desk designers are constantly innovating to develop new desking solutions that suit all requirements.

swift-elev8-desk-8Most manufacturers have a range of sit-stand height adjustable desks which have grown in popularity. Many allow the individual user to electronically adjust the desk height from a sitting to a standing position with the touch of a button.

Incorporating height adjustment technology used in the healthcare sector, the modern height adjustable desks have been designed to enable the end user to set their desk at any height or change the height to suit the task at any time.

So, why are height adjustable desks so popular now?

Firstly, they address and anticipate changing working practices.  Increasingly, companies are designing collaborative spaces into their office environments and a sit-stand desk layout enables a permanent or temporary collaborative space where colleagues can meet informally without having to move chairs or retreat to the more formal setting of a meeting room.

HeightAdjustable_CrescentSecondly and most important, there is also a wellbeing element to the practice of standing meetings or even working while standing. Sitting in an office chair behind a desk for prolonged periods of time can definitely cause lower back pain or worsen an existing back problem. The main reason behind this is that sitting, in an office chair or in general, is a static posture that increases stress in the back, shoulders, arms, and legs, and in particular, can add large amounts of pressure to the back muscles and spinal discs.

Prolonged periods of sitting have also been linked to increased risk of morbidity and life threatening conditions, including type two diabetes and cancer. Now a study co-commissioned by Public Health England has advised that office workers should spend a minimum of two hours on their feet at work – building up to an ideal four hours – in order to avoid the ill effects of a sedentary lifestyle.

The report specifically advises the use of sit-stand desks to help employers encourage their employees to spend less time sitting at their desks and more time standing while they work.

And the health benefits don’t end there. Even when an employee is sitting at their sit-stand desk, a height adjustable desk can help them to improve their posture by enabling them to position their desk at the optimum height for their needs.  That not only means an end to sitting hunched over a keyboard but also enables greater flexibility for offices that operate a hot desking policy.

Research suggests that a sedentary desk job can have a significant impact on health and wellbeing over time and office workers should be encouraged to spend more time standing during the working day.

Having the option to stand, as well as sit during the work day has been proven not only to benefit the health of the user by helping to burn calories, improving posture and promoting mental well-being, but also benefits the business.

Put simply, a healthier workforce is a happier, more motivated and more productive workforce; not to mention the reduced risk of sickness days due to back problems and other symptoms of sedentary work habits. Studies also show that height adjustable desks promote creativity, team interaction, collaboration, and the willingness to share ideas.

So, when it comes to sit-stand desks, a modern desk is much more than a place to work; it’s a working culture that benefits both the employee and the company.

For more information contact 01392 834980 or email here.

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Discover the meanings of colours.

coloursWhen planning your office refurbishment, fit out or office renovation it is important to recognise the importance of colour. Office furniture, partitions, screens and artwork, enable colours to be injected quickly and cost effectively into office refurbishment projects. Office furniture can be purchased in a range of MFC or veneered finishes, whilst fabrics on office chairs and screens and wall paints can be chosen to mirror and compliment corporate colours and messages.

Once you understand color psychology and the specific psychological effects of color, you can easily transform any space into an uplifting and nurturing environment.

Color is a silent language. In his book “Color, Environment, and Human Response,” Frank Mahnke discusses how color has a vibration, like music. Mahnke goes on to explain how artists such as Paul Gauguin understood the power of color to manipulate the viewer — to evoke a visceral reaction antecedent to words.

Experiencing color is both objective and subjective.

There are visual, symbolic, syn-aesthetic, emotional, physiological and psychological effects of color. For example, there are biological reactions to color that ensure survival like knowing when food is ripe enough to eat or recognizing the changing of the seasons.

There is also a collective unconscious reaction to color that we have inherited from our ancestors — formed through the development of our species. In this way, colors have a primal significance.

Another aspect of color psychology is the conscious symbolism of colors. For example, blue represents the sky. Gold represents the sun. Color has a remarkable impact on you both psychologically and physically. When you understand the effects of certain colors, you can begin to use them to create a specific reaction.

DOT33What may be less known about color psychology is that color influences your brain waves, your automatic nervous system and hormonal activity. For instance, if you sat in an entirely red room, your pulse and blood pressure would increase. Conversely, your blood pressure and pulse would decline in an entirely blue room.

There are always personal preferences and reactions to color. These relate to your state of mind, glandular imbalances and primal memories. This quick guide to color psychology examines the universal meanings and common physiological and psychological effects of color.

Go to an individual color for more in-depth information on the symbolic and cultural references.

The List – A Quick Guide to the Psychology of Colors and Meaning of Colors

Red. Red is the most dominant and dynamic color. Psychology suggests that red is activating, stimulating, passionate, exciting, powerful, and expanding.

Orange. Orange is very stimulating, active, cheerful and sociable. It is less arousing than red and more pleasantly stimulating.

Yellow. Yellow is very happy, warm, stimulating, and expansive. It draws people out and makes people more talkative. Yellow encourages optimism and hope and helps to focus attention and stimulate intellect.

Generally, red, yellow and orange are very stimulating and active colors, while green and blue are very calming and relaxing.

Green. Green is very calming, balancing, healing, relaxing, and tranquil. It represents growth, vitality, abundance, and nature. Green stimulates possibility and is very inspiring.

Blue. Blue is calming, healing, soothing, and relaxing. Blue characterizes dependability, trustworthiness, and security. It increases creativity, contemplation, and spirituality.

Purple. Purple represents nobility, abundance, and dignity. It is very soothing and calming and is often related to intuition and spirituality.

Black. Black connotes sophistication, power, elegance, and modernity. It is also introspected and mysterious.

White. White represents clarity, innocence, cleanliness, spirituality, purity, hope, expansiveness and openness. It can also be sterile and detached.

Grey. Grey is neutral, calm, quiet, and lacks energy. According to color psychology grey can also be boring, conservative and draining to the physical body.

Brown. Brown is stable, grounding, reliable, motherly, and comfortable, and inexpensive.

Pink. Pink is sedating and calming. It also symbolizes love and romance.

Pastels. Pastels evoke openness and relaxation. Pastels are considered relieving and soothing and are even sometimes equated with sanity.

Silver. Silver is often associated with vision, clarity, insight, mental power, and intellection learning. Silver can reduce anxiety and create peace. It is often correlated to water, metal, and technology.

Gold. Gold is equated with sophistication, luxury, quality, wealth, and splendor.

To contact us for an informal discussion on your project call 01392 834980 or email via this link.

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Seven Ways to Make Your Working Day Healthier.

Don’t just sit there!

laptop upside downWhether you are a gym bunny or a couch potato in your spare time, a job that has you glued to your seat most of the day is bad news for health. A 14-year-long prospective study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that the number of hours spent sitting was independently associated with mortality. Those who sat more than six hours a day were at least 18 percent more likely to die during the study period than those who sat fewer than three hours a day, regardless of physical activity levels. Aim to stand up and move or stretch every 20-30 minutes – even if it’s just for a minute or two. And should you need any further persuasion to step away from your desk at regular intervals, here it is: a study published in the Journal of Biomechanics found that the mechanical pressure prolonged sitting places on the hips and bottom appears to increase fat storage in these areas by 50 per cent.

De-clutter your desk!

A clean, uncluttered working space is far more conducive to a productive day than a desk piled high with files, dirty mugs and scraps of paper. Depending on how bad the situation is, put aside half an hour (or half a day, in my case!) to clear your desk, wipe your keyboard and screen clean and organise your files and papers.

Work out your workstation.

If much of your working life involves sitting at a desk (or anywhere in which you are confined for long periods), make sure you are sitting comfortably. Chairs and worktops that are too high or low, lights that flicker, screens set too close or too far back, insufficient desk space, a twisted torso… all these occupational hazards can leave you feeling stiff, sore and fatigued by the end of the working day. It is your employer’s responsibility to ensure that your workstation is set up in an ergonomically correct fashion – even if that means investing in a special type of keyboard, a lumbar support or phone headset for you. If the responsibility lies with you, then invest in a workstation assessment to help you (and your staff, if you have any) are in the correct set-up. Once you’ve got it right, sit properly, with your feet flat on the floor, your thighs supported but not compressed by the chair seat and your back straight. Regularly ‘scan’ your body throughout the day, keeping an eye out for hunched, tight shoulders, a clenched jaw, a hanging-out tummy, a jutting-forward head or crossed legs.

Be green

Don’t leave computers, faxes, phone chargers and photocopiers switched on all the time – apart from the fact that it wastes energy, all electrical equipment emits electro-magnetic fields, and there is some evidence that these are linked with sub-optimal health and conditions such as insomnia, headaches and anxiety. This is even more important if you work at home. Certain plants can help absorb the pollutants emitted by office carpets, MDF, paint and anti-stain treated fabrics – such as formaldehyde, benzene and trichorethylene. Spider plants, peace lilies, Golden pothos and Goosefoot plant are all effective varieties.

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An overheated office with no natural light or fresh air is as far removed from the natural world as you can get, but it can help to bring some of the outside in or if all else fails, to ensure you get outside for at least 20 minutes each day. An American study found that workers in a call centre processed calls six to 12 per cent faster when they had a nice view versus those with no view. Office workers were found to perform 10-25 per cent better on tests of mental function and memory recall when they had the best view versus no view. Another study, from Washington State University, found that workers in a windowless room were less stressed and more productive when plants were brought in. Meanwhile, Swiss research found that employees working in environments with natural light recorded higher levels of energy than those in artificially-lit workplaces.

Get personal

According to the Chinese art of Feng Shui, it’s good to place something that reminds you of the non-work related aspect of your life on the left-hand side of your desk. Photos of loved ones should sit in the middle and top right-hand corners.

Ease your eyes

If you work on a computer, you are spending long periods of time focusing on something at a fixed distance, straight in front of you. To relax your eyes, regularly focus on something much further away (ideally, out of a window) and at things to your left and right. Roll your eyes from side to side. Another soothing exercise is to cup your hands over your eyes so that no light whatsoever can get in for a few moments. Repeat these exercises through the day. And don’t forget to blink.

From Sam Murphy (Health and fitness journalist, author and coach) original article in Huffington Post

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New Sit-Stand Desk office furniture range for Devon specialists.

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Sit-Stand Desking

Adjust the height of your desk for maximum comfort throughout
the day with the touch of a button.

Our Sit-Stand desk has an electric motor that allows the user to easily adjust
their position from seated to standing at the touch of a button.

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Sit-Stand desks feature wave or rectangular desk tops with white or silver metal work frames.

Desk tops are available in a choice of wood finishes.

Beech, Birch, Light Oak, White, Maple, Walnut and Cherry

An additional wooden modesty panel is also available providing privacy
without taking away the aesthetic appeal of the desk.

If you would like any more information on these or any of our office furniture ranges please contact
our Exeter office furniture office on 01392 834980 or via the contact page on the website.

We are independent office furniture dealers based in Exeter where we help clients with all types of commercial office and warehouse refurbishment and fit out. We are specialists in space planning and feasibility studies to ensure you make informed decisions on your office or property portfolio.

To have an initial meeting to discuss your project please feel free to get in touch.

 

 

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Five reasons to move to Exeter!

Exeter City Council recently produced a video showcasing what is good about living and trading here in Exeter and Devon. We trade as office refurbishment and office furniture dealers in Exeter and are passionate about the South West of England, we wanted to share it with you.

The Business relocation and inward investment film is made to assist you to relocate your company to Exeter, Devon. A great visual summary of everything Exeter has to offer for you and your business. (Copyright Exeter City Council).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZYAyZU6KM

Five reasons to relocate to Exeter.

  • Exeter’s strong economy
  • A proven track record
  • Potential for growth
  • Plans in place for the future
  • A friendly welcome

The link below takes you to the small presentation, enjoy the read and the video!

https://exeter.gov.uk/business/relocating-to-exeter/five-reasons-to-relocate-to-exeter/ 

 

 

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