Commercial
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Design and Build vs Traditional Procurement: Which Is Right for Your Project?
You’ve secured a site, have a strong vision for your project and a budget to stick to but where do you start when it comes to bringing an idea to life? There are two main procurement paths you can follow - traditional procurement or design and...
SKA Rating & Assessment - A Guide for Business Owners
Our planet is irreplaceable and we’re finally realising the impact different elements have on the sustainability of where we live and the quality of our lives. We’re pleased to report there has been a dynamic shift in the built environment, with...
Best Office Plants: Enhance Your Workspace with Greenery
In the last few years, indoor plants have had a renaissance. As well as adorning our homes, we have taken our love of all things green into the workplace. We’ve come a long way from a sad spider plant in the corner. Interior design for offices...
Office Colour Ideas: Transforming Workspaces with Thoughtful Design
If your approach to office decorating is to buy a huge tin of white paint and apply it to every surface, you will be missing the transformative effects of colour. As well as helping motivate employers and lift their spirits, people will make...
Coffee Shop Design: Creating an Inviting Space for Customers
Almost unthinkable 100 years ago, we have turned from a tea-drinking nation into a country obsessed with coffee. The first branch of Costa Coffee opened in London in 1981, with Café Nero following in 1997 and Starbucks in 1998. Coffee shop design...
Dulux Colour of the Year 2025: True Joy - A Guide for Businesses
The number of colours that exist is pretty much limitless - to the point where the choice can be bewildering. That’s why there are ‘colour of the year’ announcements from experts including Dulux. These annual declarations can focus the mind, narrow...
BREEAM: A Comprehensive Guide to Sustainable Office Refurbishment and Fit-Out
The carbon footprint and drain on resources when working on a commercial refurb or creating interior design for offices should not be ignored. When the industry works together, it can drastically reduce the negative impact on the environment, and...
Creating Customised Workspaces for Unique Needs
An office fit out is the process of taking a shell of a new building or an existing workplace and remodelling it to suit the exact needs of a business. Facets that are taken into account include the number of people in the workforce, how frequently...
Cat A & Cat B Fit Outs - What’s The Difference: A Complete Guide
Office fit outs allow businesses to occupy more relevant and practical spaces. Bigger offices, smaller units, more desks, less wasted space, extra storage, new technology – office fit outs can address a myriad of problems and improve workplace...
How to Keep an Office Cool In Hot Weather
The world is getting hotter. In June, the Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that May 2024 was the warmest May on record globally. We’re also feeling the heat closer to home. A report by the London School of Economics and Political Science...
Office Bar Design: Elevate Your Workspace with a Sophisticated Social Hub
All work and no play? Not if you introduce a bar to your office – a feature that’s included in our range interior office design solutions . Let’s start with a clarification - a modern office bar isn’t about employees getting drunk on the job. When...
Wood Office Design: Elevate Your Workspace with Timeless Elegance
When specifying the materials to use in an office renovation, there’s a myriad of choices. While glass and steel may have characterised the 1980s – think Richard Rogers’ Lloyds Building – and concrete leaves people divided, one material has stood...
Future Workplace Trends: Shaping the Office of Tomorrow
Gone are the days when office refurbishments centred around the bricks and mortar of a premises. Today, workplace trends of the future are at the heart of every project. It’s essential to focus on people, technology and how spaces can adapt in an...
Innovative Shop Front Ideas to Boost Your Business
A shop front is a business’s 24 hour-a-day cheerleader. By day it should entice people in to discover more about the services offered and/or to make a purchase. By night, it should be your brand ambassador – an influencing presence that works on a...
Office Wall Ideas: Elevate Your Workspace with Creative Designs
Exploring Office Wall Design Ideas Unless you work in a glass box, your workplace will have opaque walls. Left plain and unadorned, they will fail to inspire or ground staff within the company in which they work. In this article, MPL discusses a...
Office Acoustics: A Guide For Businesses
Offices bring together a mix of people carrying out different roles and there’s one thing that’s rarely agreed on – the noise level. Our office interior design solutions can solve the sound conundrum, and we’re sharing some of our office acoustic...
Office Relocation Checklist
From expansion and restructuring to mergers and the pursuit of a different style of operation, there are a host of reasons why a company may need to move offices. Just like moving home, packing up and resettling somewhere else can present...
Office Ceiling Design Ideas
Office ceilings are often thought of as merely functional but in commercial office refurbishments , that bit above your head is a blank canvas just waiting to be personalised. In this article, we discuss which style of ceiling is best for your...
Shop Window Display Ideas
Long before the internet and digital advertising came the shop window – the 24/7 public advert. Despite rumours of the High Street’s demise, physical stores are still a cornerstone of any consumer company’s marketing strategy. Window display ideas...
The Impact of Technology on Retail Design
Introduction The advent of the internet has changed the way we shop forever. From app-based stores and Amazon to online banking and ‘click and collect’, the customer experience has altered dramatically when compared to 20 – even 10 – years ago. As...
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