It's time to furnish your workspace but where to start? Talk with our furniture consultant or your designer, our team has a variety of experience helping business owners and general consumers identify and locate the right product to fill their office furniture needs. For some, planning to furnish or refurnish an office space can seem daunting and there’s so much to consider. What do I need, what do I want, and how much will it take to do all of this? Buying new may seem like the best way to go, but maybe not, there are advantages to buying pre-owned office furniture. Oh, if you didn't know, we sell new and pre-owned so you have the best of both worlds, so you can focus on style and budget. We purchase from a variety of quality companies and we have the resources to purchase the finest available since we have a 30+ year reputation in the furniture industry. What we acquire is not randomly selected; our buyers scrutinize for quality, brand and condition before considering items and then, each item is individually evaluated when brought into our main warehouse in Phoenix, AZ.
Used furniture does not have to mean old and tired. Our selection is wide, we have cubicles, desks, tables, chairs, and storage in many configurations, colors and patterns. If the upholstery is not the color or material you like, there is no reason to shy away either. You can easily modify your fabric selections by having them reupholstered to your taste – we can help you with fabric selection and upholstery or you can work with your interior designer. If you love a desk configuration, but not the color, we can have it stained – the choice is yours. We're green, so when you purchase from us you can be too! Your business's purchasing carbon footprint is reduced when you buy gently pre-owned merchandise, you’re keeping quality furnishings from being disposed of unnecessarily. It’s always beneficial to go green. There is always a wide selection of styles from modern to traditional in the pre-owned market. You can choose from all kinds of finishes, like laminate, natural wood, plastics, and veneers.
There is an assortment of designs to choose from as well. Whether you have an eclectic style or like things very sparse with clean lines, there are selections that will fit your needs. Looking for the hottest brands and styles for a fraction of the list price? Then you'll love our most popular brands like Steelcase, Haworth, Knoll, Hon, Global and Herman Miller. We also bring in high end, artistic, quirky, and retro brands like Cabot Wrenn, Davis Wolfgang, Humanscale, Hancock and Moore, Hag, Keilhauer, Kimball, Teknion, and Brueton. We liquidate product (aka treasure) on a regular basis; we love it when we see a semi-truck pull up because that means new pre-owned items are here. Check back regularly, we always have something new to offer, but remember once it's gone we may not have the opportunity to liquidate it again, so please buy it when you see it because it could be sold out tomorrow.Before spending $500 for the office chair he really, really wanted, Mike Williams first had to persuade his wife.
He promised he would have more energy to do yardwork on weekends and took brown-bag lunches to work for a while to save money. Mr. Williams got the chair, called "Think" by Steelcase Inc. It has become equally popular with his co-workers at the Grand Rapids, Mich., food-service company where he is a product-management executive. An analyst in his group borrows it when Mr. Williams is out of town. At meetings, when he stands to speak, "it's a fight over who gets to sit in the chair," says Mr. Williams, who also has a Think chair at home. No other piece of workplace furniture evokes stronger physical and emotional attachments than the office chair. Most office workers spend more time in it than any other piece of furniture except a bed. Armed with reams of ergonomic research, companies know a good chair goes far beyond good looks. Chairs, equipped with menus of features and names to match like Generation, Think and Leap, promise to make people more productive, too. Chairs are so complex, companies need to train people to adjust them to fit properly, office-furniture makers say.
But many companies don't provide much training, so even the most-evolved chairs may not fit well, says Tim Springer, president of Hero Inc., in Geneva, Ill., an ergonomics research and consulting company. Staples Inc., the Framingham, Mass., retailer that sells office supplies, including chairs, says about 86% of office workers say their furniture causes discomfort, and more than half say that if they could make one change, it would be a better chair, according to its survey last December of 150 office workers. In a perfectly fitting chair, your back is supported and your feet are planted on the floor with your thighs parallel to the floor and your knees at a 90-degree angle, according to Humantech, an Ann Arbor, Mich., ergonomics consulting firm. The chair height should adjust so your computer monitor is just below eye level and your wrists are straight when extended to the keyboard or mouse. Work & Family Mailbox Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions. The most advanced chairs "support a wide range of body shapes, sizes and positions," with flexible backs, armrests and seats that promote movement, says Dr. Springer, who has conducted research for five of the country's major chair manufacturers.
The Generation chair by Knoll Inc., for example, responds to users' movements as they stretch, twist and change positions. It adjusts in nine different ways; four levers adjust the height of the chair and armrests, the depth of the seat and the tilt of the back, and five additional parts move with the occupant. Bill O'Connell, executive vice president of an Arlington, Va., professional association, says his Aeron chair, made by Herman Miller Inc., "looks like a Darth Vader helmet." It adjusts in nine different ways, from armrest angle and height to lumbar support. "I've come to appreciate how sore you can be from sitting in the wrong thing," he says. Each of the three times that Mr. O'Connell has taken a new job in the past 16 years, he has refused to part with his chair. He drives up to his new office in his SUV, unloads his chair and rolls it inside. Companies know the chair can be a big issue. About 10% to 15% of the office-furniture budget is typically spent on chairs, says Bryant Rice, a North American practice leader with DEGW, a workplace strategy consulting firm in New York.
Employers typically get bulk discounts and pay $300 to $600 a chair, Mr. Rice says, but high-tech models may cost $900 or more. Employers often have groups of employees try out several chair models for a few weeks and sometimes take opinion surveys. The No. 1 most-requested feature is comfort; adjustability is No. 2, he says. (Some employees also request stand-up desks, bypassing the chair altogether.) When an employer supplies ill-fitting chairs, Keith Overland, a Norwalk, Conn., chiropractor, sometimes suggests adding back or arm supports. Patients with office-chair problems account for 10% of his practice, double from a decade ago, he says. Bad office chairs "are to chiropractors what candy is to dentists," says Robert Hayden, a Griffin, Ga., chiropractor. He advises two or three patients a month to ask for a new office chair. When employers refuse, he suggests his patients set an egg-timer at work and get up every 30 to 45 minutes to stretch and walk around. Improving the ergonomics of chairs and other equipment increases productivity by an average 17%, based on a review of 40 studies of office workers published in 2008 in the Journal of Safety Research.