Office Interior Design

Your business can benefit from a new office design by improving productivity, boosting employee morale, and creating a more efficient use of space. A well-planned workspace supports focus and collaboration, helping employees feel valued while reinforcing your brand image to clients and visitors. Over time, this leads to better performance, higher retention, and a more adaptable, future-ready business that will thrive.

• Productivity & Focus – An new office design can offer employees an improved layout that supports your business operations and workflow whilst creating a variety of work settings to suit individual working preferences.
• Employee Wellbeing & Retention – Create a workspace that provides employees with breakout spaces, ergonomic furniture and maximises natural light to prioritise their wellbeing and encourage a sense of value across the team to result in excellent retention levels and to attract new talent too.
• Space Optimisation & Cost Savings – Optimise your use of space with intelligent space planning to ensure your space works hard for your business, supporting your operations and work flow.
• Improved Collaboration – With the right design, including collaboration zones and flexible furniture, your team can share ideas, work together seamlessly, and produce their best results with ease.
• Flexible Working Environment – Create various work zones offering employees choice of where and how they want to work.
• Brand & Culture – Incorporate your company brand and culture into the scheme with various elements such as branded colours, feature walls, graphics, or branded reception areas. These elements can bring a sense of identity and company culture to staff and visitors alike.
• Future Proofing & Sustainability – Select high-quality products with strong sustainability credentials to ensure longevity and maximise return on investment.
• Modernising & Upgrading Technologies – Bring your workspace up to date with the latest technologies and innovation to enable your team to work efficiently and maximise their output.
• Attracting Talent – A well designed office that focuses on employee experience through an inspirational, functional and brand aligned workspace, will attract new top talent meaning the business in turn will reap the benefits.

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A good office design brief forms the foundations for creating a space that fits your business. It outlines your company’s goals, key requirements, design preferences, budget, and future growth plans, helping designers create an environment that boosts productivity, collaboration, and employee well-being. A typical office design brief should include:

• Company introduction / background – Provide an overview of your company, including who you are, what you do, how your teams work, and a bit about your background. This helps designers understand your business culture and therefore inform their proposed design solution.
• Project overview & objectives – Define the purpose of the project, your key goals, and priorities, such as improving collaboration, supporting hybrid work, or enhancing employee wellbeing.
• Office space size – Establish the total area available, number of employees, and how much space is needed for different functions such as workstations, meeting rooms, and breakout areas or even for each department.
• Functional requirements – Specify essential needs like collaboration zones, private workspaces, storage, technology infrastructure, accessibility, and any special facilities required for your business.
• Brand, Design & Aesthetics – Share your desired style, colour palette, branding elements, materials, and overall atmosphere you want the office to convey.
• Budget & Timeline – Provide the estimated budget range and key deadlines or milestones to ensure the project stays on track.

If you are unsure where to start, not to worry, get in touch and our design experts can ask you all the right questions to get the key information they will need to maximise your office design project.

A clear structured office design process will allow a successful delivery of your project within your timelines and budget while keeping disruption to a minimum and ensuring your workspace is functional, compliant and meets your brief.

• Site Survey & Project Discovery – A site survey offers the opportunity for the space to be assessed while gaining an understanding of your key requirements, business operations, budget and timelines.
• Office Design & Space Planning – The office interior designers will create an initial concept design and layout, encompassing your requirements, ethos and working style. An overall look and feel will be communicated at this stage.
• Technical Specification – Following client feedback the design is developed further with additional detailed drawings denoting specific technical elements and finishes, ensuring all aspects have been considered for a functional compliant design that is ready to be executed.
• Office Fit Out or Refurbishment Project Agreed & Contractor Assigned – The contractor is appointed and final details, costs and timelines are agreed with client sign off.
• Office Fit Out or Refurbishment Works Commence – The works begin on site overseen by a project manager ensuring a smooth delivery to the agreed programme, maintaining health and safety standards and quality of work.
• Post Works Aftercare – Once the project is complete, an O&M manual or Health and Safety file should be provided, containing drawings, warranties, certifications, and maintenance information. Any snagging items should also be resolved to ensure the new workspace functions as planned.

Yes. Office furniture is a fundamental factor of office design; helping define layout, themes, functionality and setting the overall culture and ethos of a workspace.

Whilst office design is predominantly focused on the planning and aesthetic of these components, the physical installation falls largely within the office fit out phase.

In most cases, your chosen interior design company will plan, source and install all your office furniture requirements. These can include team desks, pods, booths, reception desks, task chairs, breakout area furnishings, storage solutions and more.

Many clients also like to take advantage of the bespoke furniture solutions we offer, which is designed to meet specific requirements.

Learn more about our office furniture service here.

Latest office design trends include:

• Hybrid & Flexible Workspaces – Create a workspace that supports employees working both in the office and remotely, with seamless technology integration and adaptable furniture solutions. Flexible layouts allow teams to switch easily between focused work, collaboration, and social interaction.
• Employee-Centric Office Design – Work with your designer to develop a workspace that puts employees at the heart of the design, prioritising wellbeing, comfort, and choice. Consulting with your team helps ensure the space reflects accurately how they work and what matters most to them.
• Technology Advancement Integration – Consider the latest smart technologies that can enhance the efficiency and productivity of your operations such as virtual meetings, wireless charging and smart booking systems. It’s important to factor in the seamless integration of such technologies ensuring they are unobtrusive, intuitive and supports both hybrid working and day-to-day operations.
• Biophilic Design – Although biophilia is included in office design for aesthetic purposes, its benefits go beyond their appearance. The use of biophilia can improve wellbeing, reduce stress and create a calmer more engaging working environment.
• Sustainability & Environmentally Conscious – Prioritising sustainability not only reduces the business’ environmental impact but also promotes employee wellbeing, contributing to the corporate social responsibility goals. Some sustainability choices might include energy saving systems, sustainable materials, waste reduction strategies and working with suppliers with good sustainability credentials.

Find out more in our latest design trends blog post.

Whether you’re looking for design services only or the full package including design and fit out works, the average cost for a new office design can vary significantly depending on the following factors:

• 2D plans or 3D visuals
• The size and complexity of the project
• Building condition and existing services
• Materials used –including technology integration and finishes
• Timeline and deadlines
• Inclusion of new furniture

We will always offer competitive quotes detailing a professional service with high-quality, durable products that provide excellent value.

We can also help you with finance options so you can spread the cost of the project over a longer period of time.

To get a tailored quote, start by emailing your brief to us here.

We’ve worked on a wide range of office design projects over several decades. Here are just a few examples:

• We Soda – A London office design and refurbishment project involving reconfiguration of their ground floor office space to include a professional and welcoming reception area, corporate meeting rooms, a large high-end boardroom, private office spaces, breakout areas and a tea point.
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Our client was relocating their admin team into newly built office space. The layout was designed to support a hot-desking approach while providing additional meeting rooms and private offices for focused work. Key furniture elements helped divide the open-plan area, offering both privacy and alternative workspaces. The design also included a welcoming entrance for visitors, alongside a large tea point and breakout space.
• Ward Security – The client required an inspirational office design in their new space at the Historic Dockyard. Our scheme embraced the historical architectural features of the building while creating a modern and inviting workspace. Key features included bespoke statement furniture, acoustic wall panels with preserved foliage feature walls, and a large breakout floor offering a variety of flexible furniture solutions.
• Corporate Insurance Company – A repeat client sought our expertise in designing a new office environment that reflected their branding. We repurposed existing furniture to integrate branding in a sustainable way and reconfigured meeting rooms to provide the flexibility the team required.

In addition to our traditional office design service, we create unique and on-trend co-working spaces too. Our interior designers will help you to build an enticing office space that will attract visitors and keep them coming back.

Please check out our projects to see examples of our work.

Rap Interiors typically carry out office interior design projects across London and the Home Counties.

We have also worked for clients with offices across the UK, including one that required multiple refurbishments as part of a nationwide initiative. Take a look at one of those projects, based in Manchester, here. 

Whether you’re based in Kent, London, Brighton, Croydon, or beyond, we’d love to hear about your project. Please fill out the enquiry form at the bottom of the page or click here to get in touch.

Office space in London often comes at a premium, making effective space planning essential. Professional interior design can help maximise every square foot by creating efficient layouts, flexible working areas, and multifunctional spaces. The result is a workplace that supports collaboration, productivity, and employee wellbeing while making the best possible use of available floor space.

Hybrid working has transformed workplace design across London. Successful hybrid offices typically include a mix of collaborative areas, meeting rooms, touchdown spaces, quiet zones, and technology-enabled workstations. The goal is to create an environment that supports both in-person collaboration and flexible working patterns while encouraging employees to make effective use of the office.

Our interior designers would be delighted to help plan your workspace to support your working approach. Get in touch here.