Meet Amy – Our Commercial Interior Design Expert!
We have some clever people working at CCWS, but our senior designer is the glue that holds us all together. World, meet Amy! To get good results, you need good people. And boy oh boy, do we have great people! With over 10 years’ creative experience, talented designer…
Understanding the Golden Triangle of Office Fit Out
What’s passionate, curious, hard-working and will leave you tickled pink with pleasure? Why, your office design firm, of course. But only if they have the perfect triangle… One of the joys of being in the commercial office fit out biz is having opportunities to meet…
How To Future Proof Your Office Design
It’s easy to create an office fit-out and design when there are just the five of you on beanbags in your meditation yurt. But what if you hire more people? How do you future proof your office design Growth is tricky when you’re designing an office because you have to…
Let the Games Begin! (Why Every Office Design Needs a Play Space)
You want to work in a fun environment, right? Dumb question. Of course you do. I mean, just because you work in an office, doesn’t mean it has to be an office. If you’re spending over 40 hours a week in one location, it’s super important that you (gasp!) look forward…
5 Questions to Ask Your Co-workers When Planning Your Dream Office Design
Forget Tough Mudder. Collaboratively designing your office refurbishment is the absolute best in team bonding! Office furniture, check. Wall colour, check. Flooring, check. Opinions of your co-workers? Uh-oh. That’s not so easy to get right. Somebody will always be hankering after a nice, quiet corner office while others (usually the boys) will yearn for a […]
How to Create a Stellar Office Design Brief (Hint: It’s Just a Conversation)
Not sure what to include in your office design brief? Perfect – that’s what we’re here for! And it all starts with a bloomin’ good chinwag. We know, we know. You’ve been given the thrilling/terrifying (delete as appropriate) task of sorting out your office…
The Latest Evolution in Office Design is a Kit of Many Parts
The way we work is changing at an unparallelled pace. Fuelled by technology, today’s work is no longer constrained by geography or the old 9 to 5. Rather, it is conducted across an increasingly broad range of office interiors and time frames, propelled by four major…
The Ultimate Flexible Office Design: Trust Edition
Do your employees enjoy their job? Perhaps not as much as you would like. Extensive research on engagement in the workplace, conducted by Gallup, suggests that only 13 percent of employees are engaged at work. This translates to around 900 million “not engaged” and…
The New Rule of Office Refurbishment?
The New Rule of Office Refurbishment? Form Follows Flexibility Follows Function Ever heard the expression “form follows function?” It’s an old design adage which means that office interiors are not designed to show off the designer’s formidable skill. They are…
The Evolution of Office Design: From Hot Desk to Coworker
It’s official — employers considering an office refurbishment don’t want hot desks anymore. Once seen as an eminently sensible space saving practice (though dubious from a noise pollution/team cohesion point of view) hot desking has gone the way big hair, shoulder…