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What to Look for in a Commercial Interior Designer

Hiring a commercial interior designer for your office space can seem like an intimidating and daunting task. We’re here to give you some pointers on what to look for in a commercial interior designer to ensure you’re getting the best service for your space! Do They Ask the Right Questions? It’s important to know that […]

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Using Flooring on Walls

Utilizing common flooring materials to decorate walls is becoming an increasingly popular trend in commercial interiors. By switching up the placement of flooring materials, you can add a lot more dimension to a space and play with textures to add interest. Bring Nature In Bringing the outdoors into your commercial space is becoming an increasingly

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Use of Color in Commercial Interior Design

Color has the ability to affect our mood, actions, and thoughts of brands and businesses – so it’s no wonder it’s one of the most important aspects of designing commercial spaces. Here at Planning Interiors, we consider ourselves color experts and love the endless possibilities that different hues can bring to an area. Whether you’re

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Designing a Showroom: Increase Sales & Client Experience

The showroom is the most important part of any office that sees clients. Rather than taking visitors to a conference room and pulling out a dusty binder to go over commercial interior design options, create a dedicated space to meet with clients and have a hands-on experience with the products. Upsells will increase when they

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Using natural elements in office space design

Even if you don’t work in a prison, your office environment may share a lot of similarities with one. Prisons are notoriously bereft of natural elements like sunlight and plant life. The furniture and surfaces are slick and comprised of man-made materials like steel and concrete. The environment is noisy, overly bright from florescent bulbs

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Standard Office Layout: Do those walls hurt or help?

In my previous blog post, I listed reasons companies decide on an open floor plan. Doing so cuts down on unnecessary emails, encourages communication, increases productivity for teams and prompts employees to be quieter since proximity dictates discretion. I went through each reason with a devil’s advocate on my shoulder and concluded there were as

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Design the space, design your life, write a blog?

My name is Dana. I am the President of Planning Interiors, an Atlanta-based commercial interior design firm. As the lead at a commercial interior design firm, you’d expect me to blog about where people work, specifically how to design the space within the four walls where most people spend their days. Don’t fret, there is

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