When we think about a floorplate, we’re usually focused on typical like workstations and private offices, seating and ancillary pieces for lounges, and collaboration spaces and meeting areas. Although these makeup the lion’s share of an investment in any space, a workspace is certainly not complete without light.
We want to incorporate as much natural light as possible, but what about interior spaces? What about those times when we might be in the office on a dreary day or after the sun goes down? It does not only helps to illuminate the spaces we create, but it can also provide color, aesthetic, power, dimension, and even acoustical properties to your workplace!
Fortunately, there are many different options, styles and types of lighting available for the modern workplace. Let’s highlight a few of the top categories in workspace lighting that you might want to consider on your next project:
Task Lighting is lighting designed to help employees perform a specific task. Easy to install and in a variety of options, these lights are perfect for individual work surfaces.
Pendant lights hang from ceiling, beams and clouds. Often suspended by cord, rod or chain, they can be individual or grouped in clusters or rows. Pendant lighting is popular in cafes, meetings spaces, collaborative areas, receptions and lounges.
Table lighting is a type of lamp that sits on a piece of furniture, often with a shade. This type can be directional or diffused to provide direct or ambient lighting in a space.
Floor lighting is freestanding and placed throughout a space to not only illuminate, but to also add to the design, feel, color and overall aesthetic of the space.
Mounted and Undermounted lighting attaches to ceilings, overheads, walls and other spaces to provide light in a large variety of options, strengths, directions and configurations.
And don’t forget, lighting is a major contributor to workplace wellness. It’s one of the seven measurements in the WELL Building standard and has been proven to influence mental and physical states, performance and happiness.
No space can exist without shading and with many high quality and attractive options available, incorporating it into your conversations with clients will not only add value to the project, but also to help increase your revenue and margin opportunity on your next deal!
