Maintaining Privacy in Shared Office Spaces
“Co-working spaces” or “shared office spaces” are popping up everywhere. Growing in number even before the pandemic, they are now super popular as companies large and small endeavor to reduce their need for extensive amounts of real estate, recognizing that working...
Changes in Post-Covid Office Layouts
Let’s face it. Covid-19 has pretty much changed every aspect of our lives. We stop and think twice about a lot of the things that once came naturally to us, like shopping in a store, eating at a restaurant, and – yes – going to the office. We worry about being indoors...
Designing Residential Office Spaces for At-home Work
At the beginning of 2020, we had no idea that a global pandemic would drastically change the way we work. Until March of that year, many of us were still commuting to the office every day, often spending countless hours in the car each week, fighting traffic while...
Getting Your Office Spaces Ready For Back-To-Work
After spending over one year in a largely work-from-home situation for most corporate offices, many businesses are getting ready for back-to-work. During this time, you may have considered how interior renovations in your respective office spaces could contribute to...
Revitalize Your Learning Space
Consider all the additional challenges teachers and learners face now: distance, cleanliness protocols, the possible distraction of anxious thoughts, over and above what any generation of students has had to face in living memory. It’s critical, then, that students...
The Big Welcome
Stand in the doorway of your company’s office and look inside. What qualities of your business do you want visitors to see right away? In the other direction, how do you want people to feel when they stand where you stand now? The view from this doorway shows both...
The Complexities of Office Seating
Just this morning I came across a news story complaining that a number of quite expensive designer office chairs were seen being carried into Vancouver City Hall (https://globalnews.ca/news/7339783/vancouver-city-hall-furniture/) . So many opinions bubbled forth in...
Your Private Office
Well it’s been quite a year, has it not? We here at Total Visions hope the best for you, that your business is surviving and even thriving in these unpredictable times. We want to do our best to help you make your office environment good now, even in the midst of...
Finding Great Solutions – Best Collaborative Office Tips
Our best ideas don’t come, sadly, at our beck and call. They’re hiding in our brains, waiting for the perfect combination of need and circumstance to coax them out. And we know that one of the best circumstances in which ideas can be set free is in open collaboration...
The Boardroom: Exciting, Adaptable Space
You remember the glory days: that exciting meeting in your boardroom, when a key program, deal, or vision came together and took your business to its next level. The energy in the room was electric, and you and your colleagues stood shoulder to shoulder looking...