Trending Themes for Office Interiors

Let’s face it – we spend more time at our workspaces than our homes. It is important that modern workspaces are planned in such a manner that they improve productivity, boost your mood and make you want to enjoy your work. Here are some trending themes for your offices:

 

• Stepping away from the cubicle culture: Office interior design no longer means cubicles or islands where employees function in an isolated manner. Today’s trend is to have a more open, multipurpose space to encourage free-flowing conversations, brainstorming and bonding. Multipurpose spaces encourage you to make a presentation on your laptop at one point, and just have a chat with a co-worker at another.

 

• A space for privacy: Just because free-flowing collaborative office spaces are the norm, it doesn’t mean office spaces no longer allow for contemplation or privacy. Quiet corners or hubs in certain parts of the workspace can help, and are quite a trend today. One of Google’s offices in Europe has separate spaces designed like an oval-shaped egg/igloo for refuge or ‘employee me-time’.

 

• Blend of textures: Textures can be created by using materials that are very different from each other – throw in a smooth silky finish for a certain shelf and include some grainy wood elsewhere. The merger of textures creates a rich environment, thereby boosting productivity.

 

• Bursts of colours: One of the major trends in terms of office interiors is the addition of small bursts of colour, because whoever said offices have to grey and grim. You can use a pop of bright blue, green or pink in an unexpected manner – bright mouse pads in green, violet or red make a nice contrast to the steely office chairs or grey/black laptops. Keep the overall theme neutral, and induce colour in the most unexpected places.

 

• Comfort is everything: Modern workspaces are not rigid spaces, and comfort plays a major role in design. One of the trends today is to have comfortable seating areas. Standing workstations are also catching on, because it is said that standing and sitting should be alternated for better health.

 

• Lounging around: If work has to be fun, you should have a lounge area with comfortable seating, bean bags etc. The trend is moving away from the rigid office set-up to a more comfortable space where work and fun come together.

 

• How green is my office! A trending interior design theme in contemporary office spaces is to bring in a dash of greenery. More than a dash of it, in fact. A major interior design element in many urban workplaces is the introduction of a green wall/vertical garden. A great idea is to have trees at certain spots and have desks designed around the trees.

 

Trending themes for workplaces include the minimalist style, or the Japanese Zen style, design inspired by nature, retro style, etc. Many modern offices also have themes revolving around the marine world, forests, industrial design, and ships, among others.

 

Happen to be living and working in Bangalore? The city is a start-up hub and there are plenty of off-beat smart office spaces in the city. You can seek advice from office interior designers Bangalore is home to for a smart contemporary workspace.