PET felt panels are made out of recycled plastic, which makes them completely green and eco-friendly. They’re also designed with the optimal acoustic properties in mind, which means that these panels give you an effect like no other.
Still, PET-felt material can be shaped into so many different things. This means that you can design the entire space with the help of pet felt accessories and design elements. Here are some ideas and suggestions you can use to improve your office space. Just keep in mind that everything we list here can be applied to a home-office, as well; it’s just that you need fewer resources to actually make it work.
1. Acoustic artwork wall
When redesigning your office, each item should ideally serve a dual purpose. It should enhance the acoustic quality of a room and simultaneously be a decorative piece.
Now, PET felt has superior sound absorption properties, which means that you can place it on walls opposite to noise sources in your office space. This wall is usually the largest empty one, which means that the chances are that you have a logo or a motivational poster on it. The thing is that this will affect your branding options unless you find a way to make these panels a part of the design.
The key to PET felt panels’ effectiveness is their strategic placement. Sure, their acoustic properties are always amazing, but in order for them to work, you need to find the ideal place for them. Just try to figure out which walls cause the most sound reflection.
You don’t even have to go with the conventional panel system. Instead, you can pick something more innovative, like wood slat panels, which will make the place look more unique.
By installing these acoustic walls behind the employees’ workstations, you can create a much quieter working space for each of these specialists. Sure, it’s still not the same as an individual office or a cubicle, but it could, at times, feel this way.
Since PET felt panels are pretty inexpensive, you could cover almost every workstation in the office, especially since some of them might overlap.
In a home office, you would have an easier job of figuring out what goes where.
2. Acoustic artwork ceiling panels
Walls are not the only surface in an office that you want to cover. The ceilings can be just as problematic, but anyone seldom ever does anything about the ceiling. First of all, in commercial office spaces, it’s quite likely that the office space above will be inhabited.
Also, if the office is particularly tall, it’s quite likely that there’ll be a lot of echoes, which will further be amplified by the number of people who are currently in the office space. These panels are so light that you’ll never have to worry if you’ve fastened the screws hard enough. Even in an unfortunate scenario where you don’t do a good job and something falls off, you’re not looking into any real damage.
Of course, you also want to make sure that they leave a good visual impression, which is why you need to make sure that they’re arranged in a grid or an interesting pattern in order to create a great visual impression, not just dampen the noise in the room.
Also, remember that these ceiling panels are just one of many features that you’ll use. So, combine them with other elements, as well. When building a home office, this task will be fairly simple.
Although there’s just one place they can go (up), you still want to place them above collaboration zones and the main work area.
3. Acoustic artwork partitions
The main reason why the cubicle system was abandoned is because some of the employees felt like they were in a prison cell. While they worked in a collaborative space, they never saw other employees and felt completely isolated.
At the same time, the cubicle system had some pretty significant benefits regarding the area’s acoustic properties. It acted as a partition, a divider that made the office a lot quieter. Not only that, but it also gave the employees a sort of a sense of ownership. While it’s just a set of partitions, it made everyone feel like it was their own personal office.
Well, it might be the time to get this trend back.
We’re talking about semi-private office spaces within the open-plan office. By blocking and absorbing signs, you get all the benefits of traditional cubicles without actually having to commit to cubicles.
You don’t even have to use them for each individual workstation. Instead, you can use them to create divisions among different areas. This way, you can create these types of blocks and obstacles between a main working area and a break area or create separate zones between different teams.
In a home office, this will give you a chance to create a more efficient dual-purpose room. A bedroom office or a closet office will no longer sound that bad.
4. Acoustic accessories
Every surface can reflect sound waves, and every flat surface will reflect it pretty intensively. This is why acoustic panels are used on walls. Walls are flat, smooth surfaces that the sound waves will just bounce off. This is also why, when using a curtain over a window, you’re effectively improving the acoustics in the room.
The first thing you can consider is getting a PET felt desk screen, which you can use between workstations to block noise from neighboring desks. It’s a miniature partition that will fill the most important role of the partition or a divider.
The height of the screen is really important because it will determine the amount of soundproofing that you get. At the same time, you don’t want it to block the light in the office completely. A modern office space is designed without cubicles in mind, which means that the downlights will be positioned differently.
When it comes to containers and storage, PET felt baskets are known to do quite a good job. They also come in variety of colors, which helps you design the space more effectively.
In a home office, since you won’t spend too much money on panels and ceiling panels (and may not even need the dividers), you’ll be able to spend more on these accessories.
Wrap up
In the end, PET felt is a versatile, light, and cost-effective material that can be reshaped into literally anything you need. This way, you get so many options and ideas that you can apply to your office in order to turn them into the best possible working environment for your team. After you give them all the conditions they need, there’ll no longer be any excuse if the productivity doesn’t improve.
Photo by Guillaume Pierre LEROY: https://www.pexels.com/photo/wooden-panels-on-wall-11449320/
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