How to Buy Conference Room Furniture
When buying conference room furniture for your company, you first want to have a clear vision on the atmosphere you’re aiming for. The factors you will consider are price, luxury, capacity, use, style, and audience. The importance of these factors cannot be underscored as a flaw can hinder your ability to attract and retain clients, get work done, and keep your current staff happy.
Price – Obviously price is a consideration if you care about the bottom line of the company. Even if you furnish your room with the most expensive conference room furniture, you should spend no more than $45,000. This includes a very large boardroom table, two complementary auxiliary tables, 25 luxury boardroom chairs, 2 end tables, and 2 wall chairs. The extra tables and chairs can be on display or kept in a storage closet. These will be used to facilitate optional or side usage such as presentations, meetings in which unexpected occupants arrive, and to help keep documentation separate and organized.
Luxury and Audience – The opulence of your surroundings plays into several aspects of your conference room. You’ll want to consider luxury more if you are thought of as an elite business and continually meet with important clientele at your company. Quite simply, you cannot afford to look less than pristine in their presence or risk losing business.
Capacity and Use – You want to buy enough furniture for 3+ the number of people you expect to regularly meet in your board room. Any more and you create a porous atmosphere when in a meeting. Any less, and you don’t give your company the flexibility to adjust to unexpected attendees or growth. Additionally, it’s wasteful to buy into extreme surplus and creates an appearance of inefficiency. The function of your conference room is important in this respect. If you expect to regularly use it for in house work, then closely adhere to this rule. Moreover, if you do expect to repeatedly be in the room, comfort is imperative to an environment conducive to work.
Style – Your company’s personality should have a large bearing on the style of conference room furniture you should employ. You never want to look cheap, but you certainly don’t need to create a luxurious setting. A simple, functional table along with four chairs may be all you need. If so, there is no need to go above this. A traditional dark wood style of table along with four black leather chairs can easily fall under the $1000 mark.
