When it comes to your recreation rooms, you want your employees to feel as comfortable and relaxed as possible. This is their space to unwind and take a load of their feet. Here they want to forget the worries of the day and enjoy their break. This needs to become their home away from the home, the place where they can feel happy, relaxed, and safe.
When your employees finish up their shift, they don’t want to be sitting in a dark, boring old room with dirty furniture and lousy entertainment. They want somewhere clean, bright, and fun that will lift their spirits. Don’t forget many of your employees are a long way from home and the recreation room can be the difference in how someone is feeling.
If you’re looking for a starting place in your rec room, you could possibly start with some basics. How big is your room? How many people are you wanting to service with the room? And how often will the room be used?
What is the layout and design of your rec room?
A lot of the design elements of your room depend upon the room itself. How big is the space you are looking to fit out? If your room is large, you will have the space to kit it out with various zones and furniture.
With a new focus and emphasis being put on caring for the mental health of your employees, it is important that rooms such as the rec room are a warm and inviting place for all. The room needs to be modern and comfortable and easy to keep clean. As mentioned earlier, this is the clean zone of your camp, and you want to keep it that way.
You could add some different zoning around the room to bring in some different options for your employees as they relax. For example, you could have a lounge area, a bar area, maybe a pool table or some other indoor table sports. Different areas allow for different personalities to relax and recuperate in the way they feel most comfortable.
When you are designing your rec room, it is important to think of any existing features of the room. If your room is a brand-new room, then it is easy enough to start planning. However, if the room is an existing one you are looking to renovate, there may be existing elements you will need to factor in, such as flooring, walls, or cabinetry.
Here at Minesite Furniture we offer a complimentary design service. We’ll visit you at your camp and there we can thrash out what you need and want in your area, face to face. We can design up your space and offer a proposal for what we believe would work and look best.
When you’re designing your rec room, you need to think about what you want to achieve with the new room.
What is your end goal for your new rec room?
The biggest question here is how do you want this room to feel? Tying in the understanding we now have on the importance of mental health; it is important for you to remember that when thinking about your rec room. Your rec room should be a place of security and comfort.
With the current designs of rec rooms, employees are finding these rooms a perfect place to unwind with their mates and shed some of their worries. This is a great way for your employees to keep themselves healthy both mentally and physically.
Depending how often your rec room is used will be what you can use as your deciding factor for the amount of furniture you want to put into it and the design and layout you choose. If your rec room is used often, you may want to look at creating more zones with more furniture to cater for larger quantities of people. Alternatively, if your rec room is only used spasmodically, you could get away with less furniture in the space and possibly less zoning. However, we would still recommend you offer the zones as a way to encourage as much use as possible.