Retail
Discover the latest trends in retail refurbishment, with advice on how to strengthen your High Street position and create bolder brand awareness through better design.
When the temperature rises...
We’re enjoying warmer summers and climate forecasts suggest heatwaves may happen more frequently, so how does your office design and setup fare when it hots up? A survey by Ricoh and Oxford Economics, entitled ‘The Economy of the People’, found 93%...
Do people want to join your culture club?
Attracting good staff used to mean offering the highest wage but in a climate of poor wage growth, employees are increasingly being swayed by office culture - something than can be fostered by creative office design and build . Up until the late...
Address poor productivity today
Did you know there is a ‘productivity puzzle’ in the workforce and business are looking to HR to tackle the issue? According to CIPHR, Government and industry commentators have been charting persistent low productivity since the 2008 financial...
The importance of a permanent workplace
You’d be forgiven for thinking Millennials and Generation Z are flighty types but new research casts doubt on their desire for a hyper-mobile working style.. There’s a desire for private & permanent Ricoh – a leader in document services,...
A dose of our own medicine!
As far as much-anticipated office refurbs go, we're thrilled to announce MPL Interiors’s Weybridge headquarters is in the midst of its own refresh and redesign. We’ve been bringing you news of our office, retail and commercial refurbishment...
Bricking it!
Once the preserve of industrial buildings and loft apartments, brickwork is now a major trend within office design in London but it's an aesthetic that is spreading across the UK. The warmth and tactile element of natural brick is hard to resist,...
Meetings: the Musk/Branson way
You may have read about a leaked email from Elon Musk, detailing his advice for improved staff efficiency - the electric car supremo has some radical ideas about meetings. Musk’s six productivity guidelines heavily featured meeting etiquette, with...
Staff retention and the £30k saving
No employer likes to find an envelope stuffed within a resignation letter on their desk. Losing a talented member of your team can be bad for moral, figures and your wallet. It’s thought replacing an employee costs in the region of £30,000 and even...
Refurbishment lessons from the Palace of Westminster
So there is to be a ‘full and timely decant’ at the Palace of Westminster. No, not the pouring of another bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape but the mass exodus of MPs while the Palace of Westminster undergoes a full refurbishment. The major restoration...
Engaging office design for Millenials
Ah, the gift of youth. A good business will actively seek to employ bright young things who have bags of enthusiasm and bundles of ideas but a different generation brings a different attitude to the workplace. Millennials – those born between the...
Injecting colour into office design
Are you beige or vanilla? As well as being shades of cream, these colour names are now being used to describe boring, uninteresting people and things. As office interior refurbishment and space planning specialists, we recognize there is a time and...
Office design and productivity go hand in hand
If you pay your staff to work eight hours a day, five days a week, you’d expect them to make an effort during those hours, right? Wrong. Although you can expect some time to be lost to idle gossip, procrastination and social media surfing, research...
Natural light & your office
Are your staff looking miserable? Have you thought a lack of natural light may be hampering productivity and wellbeing? Did you know a revised interior office design may help? We’ve reported before on the research by Northwestern Medicine and the...
Office layout & design tricks for small spaces
Drawing on our years of experience in interior office design London , MPL brings you a quick guide to refurbishing small spaces. MPL Interiors is often asked to design commercial office refurbishments for small or ‘bijou’ offices . The overriding...
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