Office design

Posted by Nicolai Kolding

On July 3rd, I proposed three floorplans for a residential sales office.  I’ve taken all of the comments that followed into consideration and would like to offer up just one more plan:

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Posted by Nicolai Kolding

I think it’s well past time for the layout of the “traditional” real estate office to change.  As a customer, I see woefully little that is designed around my needs.  As someone with a vested interest in the success of this industry, I see wasted costs galore that make my stomach churn.  As I’ve written before, I believe we can do much more with much less.  I can’t imagine a better time to move forward with revolutionary designs.

With that in mind, I recently challenged myself to draw up some floor plans.  A few ideas were floating in my head but I needed to get some real measurements to make them useful.  So I casually paced out floors of all kinds of different business I thought we could borrow designs from.  I sized up office furniture with my trusty tape measure.  I played with a snazzy interior design program.  I mumbled to myself a lot.  And, in the end, I opted for old-fashioned pencil and grid paper so I could free-form away when the mood struck.

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