Workstations & Custom Office Furniture
Office workstations and furniture cover desks, storage, reception desks, boardroom tables and bespoke joinery, split between system products and custom-made pieces. What decides the outcome is matching the desk layout to floor boxes and data outlets, and ordering early, since furniture is usually the longest-lead item on a fit-out.
By Dhruv Agarwal · · 2 min read
What we deliver
Workstations, storage, reception desks, boardroom tables and bespoke joinery — specified against the agreed layout and coordinated with the small power and data design.
The coordination is the point. Furniture is normally chosen visually and priced per unit, then discovered on site to sit two feet from the nearest floor box. The desk layout and the power layout are the same drawing, and treating them separately is what produces trailing extension leads under a new office.
Scope of works
| Stage | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| Requirement | Headcount, desk sizes, storage, meeting and collaboration needs |
| Selection | System products where they suit, custom where they do not |
| Coordination | Desk layout against floor boxes, data outlets and containment |
| Manufacture | Custom joinery in-house; system products procured |
| Delivery | Sequenced after finishes, before handover |
| Installation | Assembly, levelling, power and data connection |
| Handover | Snagging, warranty documentation |
What we cover
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Workstations | Linear, cluster and bench, 4-6 ft per person |
| Storage | Pedestals, lockers, filing, tall units |
| Reception desk | Usually custom, brand-carrying |
| Boardroom table | Custom, with integrated power and AV routing |
| Meeting and collaboration | Tables, booths, informal seating |
| Cafeteria and breakout | Tables, seating, counters |
| Bespoke joinery | Wall panelling, feature units, wardrobes |
Where projects go wrong
- Furniture ordered late. It is the longest lead item and it decides the handover date more often than site work does.
- Desk layout not matched to floor boxes. The result is visible from the day people move in and awkward to fix afterwards.
- Customising the general workstation. More expensive and slower than a system product that would have done the same job.
- No power and data in the boardroom table. Retrofitting it into finished joinery is ugly and rarely looks intentional.
- Ignoring circulation around desks. A layout that fits on paper can fail on the clearance behind a pulled-out chair.
Why Hagerstone
Customised furniture is part of our stated scope, made in-house alongside the fit-out — so a reception desk is built by the same organisation that builds the wall it sits against and runs the power into it.
15 carpenters in-house, ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001, 79+ quality checkpoints.
Standards referenced
Work chairs under IS 17631.
Standards referenced
- IS 17631 — Furniture — work chairs — specification (Bureau of Indian Standards)
Frequently asked
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