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Office Furniture Classification

Office Furniture Classification:

The general term for supplies, stationery, and equipment used by office staff for official duties (ie, writing, modifying, copying, calculating, classifying, sorting, binding, transmitting, and storing). According to its function, it can be roughly divided into the following three categories.

1.Office stationery: Consumable items that are carried around and frequently used on the desk, such as fountain pens, pencils, ballpoint pens, folders, staplers, staples, pins, paper clips, glue, ink, letter inserts, office Stationery boxes, etc.

2.Office machinery: small equipment used to realize office automation and improve office efficiency, such as typewriters, speed printers, document shredders, photocopying machines, thermal plate making machines, copiers, office computers, word processors, fax machines machine etc.

3.Office furniture: Office staff handle official business, retrieve, store documents and furniture used in meeting rooms, such as office desks, conference tables, filing cabinets, data cabinets, card cabinets, bookshelves, safes, etc.

Every company will provide staff with office desks and mesh or leather office chair with footrest. Do you know what are the materials of the desks? In general, desk materials mainly include the following:

1. Panel desk

The materials used are wood-based artificial boards. This kind of materials are divided into many types, such as triamine board, fiberboard, particle board, finger-joint board and so on. Panel desk refers to a desk made of medium density fiberboard or particleboard for surface veneer and other processes. The panel desk is a disassembly and assembly desk with man-made panels as the main base material and panels as the basic structure. All furniture are connected by surface-decorated man-made panels and hardware. The board desk has the basic characteristics of detachable, changeable shape, fashionable appearance, not easy to deform, stable quality and affordable price. Because the base material breaks the original physical structure of wood, when the temperature and humidity change greatly, the deformation of wood-based panels is much better than that of solid wood, and the quality is more stable than that of solid wood furniture.

The features of wood-based panels are that they are artificially processed and synthesized, and the materials are sawdust, veneer, etc., so the cost is relatively low. Wood-based panels can be cut and processed more freely, so they are fit for customized project, resulting in different shapes; like triamine panels, the exterior can also be changed at will. It is cost-effective and widely used.

Take square office table as an example. Small footprint and can be placed against the wall, which is more suitable for small-scale restaurants. If it is in a large party, it is easy to make it look formal. To make a good office swivel chair, first of all, it needs to conform to the structure of the human body. Only if it conforms to the structure of the human body can blood circulation be ensured. Normally, the blood circulation can be smooth to generate more oxygen, and the more oxygen to the brain can think more effectively and think more effectively. To work better, to work better to make more money…

2. Solid wood desk

This type of desk is made of solid wood, mostly walnut, oak and so on. Due to the high price of logs, the price of tables made of solid wood is high. White wood office desks are popular by many people because of their classic and original taste, exquisite appearance, green and environmental protection without any pollution, but the price is really not cheap. Now the use of solid wood furniture is also an status symbol.

3.Steel desk and under desk pedestal

Its material is generally cold-rolled steel. The steel desk can be all steel; it can also be a combination of steel and wood, that is, the bottom is steel and the table top is wood; there is also a glass table above the steel frame, but this is rare. Steel desks are sturdy, modern in style, and suitable for some innovative enterprise office applications. The prices are moderate, low and high. There are 4 outstanding features of steel cabinet: a.The material recycling rate of the steel cabinet is high, the service life is long, and the material can be simply reused after being scrapped; b. Good load-bearing, no deformation, and has the characteristics of fire prevention and shock resistance; C. The steel cabinet material has stable performance and no harmful volatile organic substances such as formaldehyde d. The material disassembly or welding structure is stable due to the plate cabinet.

How to pick office furniture items that suits oneself?

1.Surface quality: When purchasing, it is mainly to see whether the surface of the board has defects such as scratches, indentations, bubbling, degumming and peeling, and glue marks; whether the wood grain pattern is natural and smooth, and do not feel artificial; for symmetrical furniture, more It is necessary to pay attention to the consistency and harmony of the color and texture of the board surface, making people feel that the symmetrical board is like a piece of material.

2.Production quality: The production quality mainly depends on the quality of cutting saws, the quality of edge and surface decoration and the quality of plate ports. Generally speaking, the cutting technology of the board is within 0.01 mm per meter. The board that meets the precision requirements has a flat profile and a good angle after cutting, and there will be no tilting of the board after it is made into furniture. Edge and surface decoration mainly depends on whether the glue on the decorative parts is uniform, whether the gap between doors and drawers is too large, generally between 1mm and 2mm, and whether the doors and drawers can be opened and pushed flexibly and freely.

3.Hardware accessories: In furniture, the value of hardware accessories accounts for 5%, but the operating comfort accounts for 85%, which is enough to show the powerful functions of hardware accessories in home life. Among them, hinges and slide rails are most frequently used in life, so they are more important. Damping technology is widely used in the field of hinges and slides.

4.Formaldehyde emission: Formaldehyde, also known as formalin, is a toxic substance that is harmful to human health. If consumers open the door and drawer when purchasing, they can smell an irritating odor, causing tears in the eyes or causing coughing, etc., it means that the amount of formaldehyde released in the furniture exceeds the standard requirements, and such furniture should not be purchased. Otherwise, during use, especially when using an air conditioner, the indoor air will contain formaldehyde, which will affect your health.

Office furniture generally comes in 5 shades: black, gray, brown, dark red and plain blue. Usually, different kinds of gray are used for desks; black and brown are used for boss chairs and reception room tables and chairs; plain blue and dark red are mostly used for office chairs. Because, although blue is elegant, it does not lose brightness; although red is solemn, there is no lack of liveliness; black and brown always give people a sense of solemnity, and using them to decorate the conference room will prompt you to concentrate on thinking. Leap, Small Harmony” principle.

Each color has its own language, and it sends a certain psychological message to your colleagues and clients. For example, black gives people a sense of loneliness, but at the same time there is a kind of nobility and solemnity; brown makes people feel old-fashioned, but different concentrations of brown not only lose the gloom of old age, but also produce a bit of elegance; big red and big pink are too flamboyant, If it is matched with quiet cool colors, it can show youthful and lively; if the white earthy yellow is too pure, if you hold hands with happy warm colors, it is easy to reveal your own elegance. Going a step further, lavender and sky blue give people a quiet feeling; magenta and sapphire blue make you feel bright; sauce purple and moon white look elegant; pink and white convey youthful atmosphere; dark brown and light yellow can make you look more mature; light gray Matching ink black looks solemn; vermilion and black can attract each other’s attention; dark green and earthy yellow are the most natural; sea blue and light blue make people feel at ease; as for bright yellow and ink black, they can give people the beauty of jumping.

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