When it comes to creating your dining rooms, there are a few things to consider: proposed usage, extent of the fit out and the furniture. Often the dining room sees the most traffic and therefore it needs to be serviceable as well as stylish.
How often your dining room is going to be used will determine the furniture you choose and the quantities you’ll need.
How often will the dining room be used and what is the seating capacity?
The proposed usage of the room will determine a few different factors in your fit out process. For example, if the room is only going to be used once a day for dinner, you may want to include less furniture and less variety.
If the room is going to be used 3 times a day or more, you will want extra seating of high quality. Your furniture will also need to be able to stand up to heavy usage and a tighter cleaning program. If you include soft furnishings, you will want materials that have a high rub-rate, and your dining chairs will need to be made from a material designed to withstand a high traffic flow.
The seating capacity will also determine how many chairs and tables you include in the room. The more employees you expect to feed at once, the more chairs and tables you will need in your room. The size of your room could also limit the capacity.
What is the extent of the fit out you’re planning to undertake?
Is the fit out in a new room or a renovated one? This is important as a renovation will often mean there are existing fixtures in the room that will need to be considered when creating the flow and layout of the room.
You’ll also need to consider how much you are wanting to renovate. Will you need new flooring? Or will you need to paint walls? Does the lighting need to be updated or does the current lighting fit in with your vision? What sort of chairs are you looking for? Do your tables need to be able to move or will they be fixed?
The answers to those questions will help you on your way to completing your dining room fit out.
So, what furniture?
What furniture is used in Mine Site camp Dining Rooms?
When it comes to the furniture you place in your dining rooms, we would recommend you use a mixture. Including sofas, booth seating and both high and low seating options allows for personalities of all kinds. Your employees are not all perfect clones of each other and therefore they will all have different preferences in the way they take their meals. It helps them to feel more at home if they can eat how and where they feel most comfortable.
As a dining room often sees a lot of traffic, you will want to choose furniture that is high quality to withstand the rigours of the environment. You will also want to choose furniture that can be easily cleaned and maintained.
Other options you could consider would be movable tables. If you need to clear or pack up the space often, you might look for tables that can be stacked away or wheeled to the corner if need be. Similarly, you might want to choose chairs that can be easily stacked away and moved from the room if you need to.
Get in touch with our team today to start working on your dining room fit out.