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A Safe Return to Their Space NBS recently helped one of our major corporate clients return to their space. To aid in the safe return of employees, NBS reconfigured existing benching stations by rotating height adjustable desks 90-degrees and adding additional worksurfaces, desk screens and personal storage at each station. Shifting all the desks to […]

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New Environment Enhances Community MORC has been a forerunner in the behavioral health field for over 40 years. Throughout their tenure, they have dedicated themselves to the service of those with physical and developmental disabilities as well as the elderly. To further support their mission and culture, MORC decided to move from an outdated, closed-office […]
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March 15, 2021

Ancillary Spaces: Bring Them Back to Something Better

Many office workers have gotten used to working in some pretty homey environments over the last year—in many cases, their actual homes. As they come back to the office, ancillary spaces with home-like touches can go a long way towards making the workplace return more comfortable. But how do you make these shared spaces safe […]

March 2, 2021

A Year of Togetherness

While living through a crisis has not been easy on anyone, it has caused people and organizations to think about our shared humanity and what we want to achieve together. The longing to physically be together again has led us to choosing togetherness as our theme for the year. We are hopeful 2021 will bring […]

February 3, 2021

You Need a Media Wall. Here’s Why.

A great meeting room is the heart of your organization. It’s a place to come together, collaborate, and share both digital and analog information. And with a remote or semi-remote workforce here to stay, it also has to bring office-based and home-based team members together. How do you accomplish all that? A well-designed media wall […]
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Managing all the details, no matter how small, is essential to creating great commercial spaces. The job can be made a little easier with the right tools and reference materials. We’re launching an on-going project to collect and present those A&D resources here. We’ll be creating a pathway to valuable content, a convenient starting point for those who need planning and design ideas; COM, performance, sustainability and LEED calculators; reference libraries for finishes, metals, fabrics; computer symbols for furniture, and much more.

June 9, 2016

Steelcase: It’s In Our Blood

Shared by Interior Designer, Angela Dabbs

You might think that the above photo was completely staged. You might even think that it took a lot of planning and coordination, but the truth is actually much simpler.

On May 5^th, 2016, we hosted an Open House at our beautiful new Bay City office. It was a long day of setup and preparation, eating and drinking, and entertaining and touring clients throughout the showroom!

Just as it was beginning to get dark outside, a big familiar blue truck unexpectedly pulls into our parking lot. Without missing a beat, everyone yells, “Tim (our warehouse manager), a Steelcase truck is here for you, go out back and unload it!” Never mind that it’s 8:30PM at night!! Three people from NBS immediately ran outside to greet the Steelcase driver and offer him something to eat. A minute later, I decided to go out too.

As I was walking to the truck, I noticed that something looked a little “off”. The three people from NBS were standing underneath the rainbow-colored Steelcase logo, but the color of the shirts that they were wearing didn’t match the color of the letters in the logo. As an interior designer, I can’t help but notice things like this. It’s in my blood!

An idea began to swirl around in my head and then I instantly realized, “I need to get everyone outside RIGHT NOW for a picture before it gets too dark!”

Because our Open House was Cinco de Mayo-themed, we all agreed to wear bright colored shirts. It didn’t matter what color, it just had to be bright! So now, with everyone outside, I could finally see whether or not my idea could come to fruition. I thought, “We just might have enough of the right colored shirts to pull this off!” Because the party was now going on outside, it was a struggle to keep everyone together and hold their attention. So instead of trying to explain to them what I wanted to do, I just started grabbing people and moving them into position. And by sheer luck, a classic photo opportunity was born!