Elevate Your Business with Commercial Interior Design | Expert Tips

By Artem Kropovinsky, Interior Designer and Founder of Arsight Studio |
November 21, 2024

The art of creating functional, inspiring, and brand-reflective commercial areas within a structure is known as commercial interior design. It involves creating environments that encourage productivity, creativity, and comfort.

What is Commercial Interior Design?

Commercial design creates a surrounding that is both aesthetically appealing and practical. It involves more than just making a place appealing. Rather, it employs design features to:

Reinforce a brand’s identity: Reiterate the corporation’s values and character through visual cues.

Improve customer experience: Create an inviting environment that encourages positive interaction between employees and customers

Optimize worker productivity: Build a work environment that increases productivity, efficiency and also teamwork.

HelloFresh Office, by Arsight

What Do Commercial Interior Designers Do?

Commercial interior designing includes routine duties, as a commercial interior designer's workload fluctuates based on the demands of the project and the size of the company. However, a few typical responsibilities are as follows:

- Client liaison: Understanding the client's goals, target market or markets, and branding details.

- Space Planning: Producing preliminary concept designs or space plans.

- Design development: It involves visualizing the space with mood boards, color schemes, and 3D illustrations.

- Furniture Selection: Choosing furniture that complements the design and is ergonomically optimal.

- Material choice: Selecting flooring, wall coverings, and other materials to satisfy functional and aesthetic needs.

- Construction documentation: Creating specifications and drawings for contractors.

- Project management:  Supervision of completing projects within allocated budgets and timelines.

Advantages of Commercial Interior Design Services in Business

- Adequately built commercial space provides numerous benefits that can have a direct impact on your business, as shown:

- Improvement of Brand Image: Reinforces brand identification and provides consumers with a favorable impression of the business. 

- Better Customer Experience: Maintains an inviting environment, encouraging customers to come back again.

- Increased Employee Productivity: Optimises workflow and promotes a conducive work atmosphere for focus and collaboration.

- Lifted Employee Morale: An organized workspace can improve staff members' job satisfaction, well-being, inclusiveness, etc.

- Maximize Space Efficiency: Make every square foot count in terms of function.

Heywear Store, by Arsight

Commercial Design Concept

The key idea of interior design for commercial spaces is to create environments that serve two primary goals:

Functionality: The space layout should be practical and offer the functionality to its targeted users. This could imply being part of an organization that fosters teamwork among the workers, a shop that provides enough time for the customers, or a restaurant that enables the provision of services in the best manner.

Aesthetics: The design must be eye-catching and convey the essence of the business. Office furniture, wall paint colors, and overall layout designs can all contribute to the brand's identity.

Heywear Store, by Arsight

Stages of the Commercial Interior Designs

The projects of commercial interior design go through the following stages:

  • Understanding the needs, goals, and financial status of clients through consultation.
  • Creating mood boards and preliminary design concepts is known as schematic design.
  • Design development is the process of creating detailed drawings to build upon the basic concept.
  • Creating construction plans and specifications is known as construction documentation.
  • Construction administration entails supervising the construction process and ensuring that the design goal is met.
  • Post-occupancy evaluation involves evaluating the finished space and making any necessary changes.

The concept of designing the interior of a company organization can enhance its performance to a very large extent. Thus, by learning about business design, as well as the roles and responsibilities of business designers, and asking the right questions, one can design a space that is efficient and comfortable.

Artem Kroppvinsky Author at Arsight Studio
Artem Kropovinsky is an author, interior designer and the founder of Arsight Studio, a globally award-winning design firm based in New York. With over decade of experience, Arsight specializes in complex projects, including new constructions, complete residential renovations, restaurants, and retail stores.