5 Great Ways to Showcase Your Lobby Makeover

Has a major office makeover changed the face of your new workplace? Congratulations! Completing an office facelift an excellent way to get word out about your business and attract new clients. However, marketing is a complex and sometimes tedious process, but thankfully, you have us! In today's article, we're highlighting some of the best social media outlets and ways to market your company, as well as it's latest makeovers. Enjoy!

Facebook

Although the hype of Facebook has worn a bit since it's debut, almost everyone still has an account with them. Even in 2014, this social media giant is still going strong, with users all over the world connecting, posting photos, hitting links, and "liking" millions of pages. Letting your company miss out on this huge opportunity corral new customers could be a costly mistake. If you haven't already, now is the time to act! What better way to make your own debut than by showcasing a fabulous new makeover in the lobby?
 Facebook has a special option for businesses to create a page for themselves that customers can share and like to get the word out. Don't let that fabulous new reception furniture go to waste!

Pinterest

This is the outlet where artists, architects, designers, bloggers, crafters, and photographers congregate! While you're rocking the internet with your new company's latest changes, don't forget to add a few pins to Pinterest. With this site, linking or "pinning" images of your new company, adding links to the company site, and posting blogs has never been easier - or more fun. Diversify your account by creating multiple boards to appeal to a wide variety of interests.

This virtual avenue for marketing is excellent for gathering information and inspiration about everything from fitness, to crafting, to cooking, and companies are no exception. A few photos of those cozy leather chairs for guests could draw the attention of interior designers, artists, and furniture freaks in a matter of minutes with Pinterest. While you're there, go ahead and find loads of inspiration for your next office makeover!

Twitter

Want to get the word out fast? Then Twitter is your racehorse for information. Twitter's lightning-quick social media platform revolves around users who tweet about everything from their personal lives to big issues to current events. Through hashtags, tweets, and retweets, posts can spread like wildfire and become trending topics in merely a few minutes. Gathering enough followers for your company through Twitter can be a great way to make sure everyone gets to see that amazingly versatile lobby seating, as well as stay updated on any changes or events at the office! #InteriorDesign

Instagram

Like Pinterest, Instagram is an outlet for fans of photos who like to use phones. The Instagram smartphone app enables users to edit photos either from within the app or their camera roll. By using filters, inexperienced photographers can dress up their photos to look amazing without costing a fortune. Users can follow one another's photographs, finding users they like or connecting with friends via Twitter and Facebook.

For a new business, Instagram's online community offers excellent opportunities for marketing and raising awareness about any new interior design changes. Simply snap a few pics with your smartphone, edit them, and post to raise awareness about beam seating benefits and how it changed the look of your waiting room!

Host an Event

With the rise of all the super-convenient virtual media giants, hosting an event at your workplace may seem a little blasé. But, as they say, "old is gold!" Hosting a formal event to showcase your business not only provides opportunities to get the word out, it's also classy. Plus, with all those guests and all those smartphones, marketing will practically take care of itself. Allow guests to sit and enjoy the new space, taking photos, talking with friends, enjoying refreshments, and the event will have done it's job! Comfortable chairs, and subtle artificial lighting will help increase the business casual vibe. After all, what better way to break in the stylish executive chairs for guests than with a party to celebrate them?

Office Lobby Showcase: Modern Welcoming Areas

Interior design is often fraught with challenges, but perhaps the biggest challenge of them all is deciding on an idea! In office design especially, success revolves around many things: whether or not the space is stylish, the look reflects the business, comfort, and in the case of welcome areas, whether or not the space is entertaining. It's a gauntlet, we know, but hopefully this showcase of great modern office welcome areas will give you some inspiration!

Professional and Casual

Seating: This trendy office reception furniture set is from the Citi Collection by Global Total Office, so naturally, it's only the best. The chair's featured here are offered in the shopper's choice of four beautiful  mock leather finishes. In a reception area, the chairs do their job well, keeping guests comfortable until their name is called

Accent Furniture: Perhaps the biggest asset to this collection is that gorgeous coffee table. In the 7875-7876 Citi Furniture collection, the stylish modern coffee table is offered separately, as the Citi 7889 table. In this photo, it has been topped with a cool vase to accent the glass top. Magazines, books, and pamphlets can be easily stored in the outcrops underneath the tabletop for guest entertainment.

Walls and Design: With the textured walls in this welcome area being the perfect shade to compliment the cream colored chairs, and the open wall-length window being all the art a visitor could need, the overall design of this space is spot-on. It's a geometric, minimalist design that conveys sophistication with just a hint of casual warmth.

Modern Style

Seating: The seating in this next office welcome area obviously has a focused purpose. With minimalist seating surrounding the television, and guest chairs lined up in front of each reception station, this office gives the strong impression that visitors will be catered to at all times. The squarish office guest chairs pair nicely with the geometric tiles all over the room. The black is a nice contrast to the bright chrome.

Accent Furniture: This room is loaded with accents, but very little of it is actually furniture. Aside from cool welcome area end tables, the space mostly relies on it's walls to accent the space. A television provides the entertainment, so the space isn't left a mess of magazines, and the plants provide a splash of color that won't clash with the wood to keep the eye interested.

Walls and Design: For this interior, the walls do most of the heavy lifting. Rather than choosing colorful patterned lounge chairs, the designers chose to make this space a study in wood, glass, and chrome. The shining textures convey the modern, the wood furniture brings the class.

Smart Design

Seating: The seating is the best feature of this space for many reasons, the chief one being space. By choosing unique lounge seating for reception areas, like a cool reception chair from OFM's UNO collection, designers ensured that their seating was flexible. Rather than grouping these chairs in one huge cluster, designers saved tons of space by lining them up against the walls. The office can still seat a ton of guests, and look good doing it!

Accent Furniture: The trendy 421-Brown-Copper reception chairs not only save space here. Their coloring also makes them the perfect compliment to the dark wood reception desk and end tables too. Cool lamps, plants, and colorful art pick up the slack, making the space fell warm and lived in, more like a home than a faceless office. It's the perfect look for a small, local space.

Walls and Design: Because of the dark furniture (obviously the eye candy in the room) the walls had to be much lighter. The creamy orange paint brightens up the space significantly without being boring or distracting from the rest of the room. The color adds a certain sense of spicy warmth reminiscent of the fall - always excellent when you want to make clients feel like part of the family!

Futuristic

Seating: The seating in this space definitely conveys the futuristic sense. Rather than relying on conventional chairs, the designers here obviously went for the funnest thing they could find. Slightly more traditional chairs curve along the wall for individuals that like regularity even things out, while the bright orange stripe of seating steals the rest of the show! (Convenient round tables are also a plus!)

Accent Furniture: When you look at it for a little while, it's pretty obvious that this space has no accent furniture at all, but it's one of those few spaces that doesn't need it. The intense creative walls, clever lighting, and built in tables more than enough eye candy for most.

Walls and Design: The futuristic look is always a fun one to go with, especially since everyone's idea of what the future will look like is different. It's clear this designer's sense of the future is that it will be progressive (crazy wall designs and colors) while always keeping in touch with the past (natural accents). The walls and furniture both seem to have the right blend of mundane and outlandish so neither dominates the room. If futuristic is the look you want to go for, let your vision shine through. It will help ensure that your space is unique and memorable! Be careful though, because it's easy to go overboard.

Cultured Class

Seating: The geometric chairs in this office space are one of it's most defining features. Here the designers went with the memorable qualities of a futuristic office lounge chair, similar to the ZB-SMART-BROWN-GG Hercules Chair by Flash Furniture. However, they evened things out by choosing a brown leather upholstery - a very natural color that conveys a certain sense of old-school class.

Accent Furnitture: The accent furniture in this space is minimalist. Aside from a few classy coffee tables, a cultural patterned area rug, and the logo behind the desk, most of the eye candy comes from the large sculpture attached to the wall. Glass tables help accent the open windows, which in turn keeps the room from feeling closed off.

Walls and Design: With glass furniture and a unique modern sculpture, this office could almost be classed as high tech, but it's the neutral colors, the stylish rug, and the wood paneled walls that keep it from getting there. In the end, the space is the perfect blend of past and future, with a splash of culture thrown in by the rug. You could just as easily envision a woman in a suit or a sari behind the desk!