Small business premises can feel like a real disadvantage. Nowhere to expand, hard to fit all your staff in, no spare store cupboard to keep all the supplies in – it can be a real mess! But there are certain ways you can squeeze a bit more usable space out of the whole area, which will definitely save you a lot of money on having to find new premises and paying to move to them. Check out a few tips for keeping whatever space you have functional below.
Get Rid of Unnecessary Decor
Unnecessary decor just gets in the way. It might look quite nice, but it’s taking up room you can’t afford to give up. Oversized plants, for example, or big branding pieces that hang down from the ceiling. If you’ve got little to no room right now, there are better, less intrusive ways to decorate your working space!
Roll things back, strip the walls down, and take things out of the corners. What are you left with? Most likely space for at least a couple more desks and everything that goes on top, and then there’s still space to hang pictures or lights on the walls.
Get the Layout Right
So you’ve got a small office, and you’re swiftly running out of room to fit your equipment in. What’s to be done? Take it all out and rethink the entire layout. Indeed, a small working space can’t be made bigger, but it can be better used when you plan things right down to the tiny details.
Within this, you may also want to invest in a fit out construction to ensure your premises are truly designed for commercial purposes. If the office doesn’t feel fit for the work you do right now, an overhaul like this will give you more functioning space, such as cubicles, working partitions, and inbuilt shelving units and cupboards.
Make Your Vertical Space Work
A small office space will still have average sized walls. This means there’ll be plenty of vertical space to make use of, which is great for any business that needs to store paperwork, physical files, or their own products on site. And the more customers you take on, the more space you need for storing items like these.
Make the vertical space work by building these storage elements upwards. Tall rather than wide shelves, for example. And then, if you want to incorporate more greenery into the space, hanging up a living wall over the top of the entryway into your office would make sure you don’t need to use up space anywhere else!
Frustrated with your small business premises? They don’t have to be a problem for much longer. Get your layout right, keep the decor interesting yet as minimal as possible, and always build upwards to keep space free and your office’s traffic flowing safely. You don’t want any tripping hazards on site, and the smaller the office, the harder these are to navigate around!
