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Bisley lockers – a flawless solution for changing lifestyles

Whether it’s for business or pleasure, in today’s modern living environment there is a growing need to fit in a lot more into the working day which in turn means carrying around more of our personal belongings. These are just a few examples of items commonly stored in lockers:

  • Cycling gear
  • Gym clothes
  • Toiletries
  • Shoes
  • Umbrella
  • Handbag
  • Snacks

There’s a wealth of locker sizes and configurations available and you can choose lockers with or without postal slots. With many offices adopting hot desking and other space optimising strategies, personal lockers provide a cost effective, clutter free solution.

HSI Furniture are Bisley main dealers, get in touch to discuss your storage requirements or to request a free site survey.

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Your one-stop reupholstery service in Berkshire

In our Berkshire workshops the variety of reupholstery projects we undertake is extraordinary. With customers as diverse as The Royal Albert Hall, The St Pancras Hotel, Local Authorities, Hospitals and many Corporates.

For a quick quotation, drop us a line with a photo or alternatively request a free site survey.  We provide expert advice on fabrics and offer a wealth of choice,  we can also reupholster using fabrics with anti microbial properties and stain resistance as required. In addition to our skilled upholsterers and machinists we also have our own French Polisher for renovating tables, chair legs, balaustrades and wood panelling.

Our reupholstery workshop in Berkshire

For any reupholstery, repair or renovation enquiry, get in touch and we’ll be happy to advise on fabric and provide a quotation.

 

 

 

 

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The latest Scandinavian look retro office seating

We’ve noticed a strong trend towards Scandinavian style seating, simple styling with clean unfussy detail and four star chair bases make a striking statement within modern office breakout areas. Designed & manufactured by Edge Design you can be confident that seating meets all appropraite standards and is fit for the demands of rigourous office use.  For advice on any seating project, do drop us a line or request a free advisory site survey.

Ripple Range

Wave Range

Runna Range

Me, Myself & I Range

 

To view all our Scandinavian style office seating click here.

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Innovative desk screen solutions – acoustic, pinnable, glazed & wipeable

Our desk screen collection provides a solution to every office environment.  Manufactured in the UK, all the screens we supply are designed to be adaptable for the modern open plan work place.

Our Desk & Floor Standing Screens Include:

  • Acoustic screens which block 70% of sound
  • Pinnable screens for reminders, memos and important notices
  • Wipeable screens – ideal for sales & call centre applications
  • Part glazed screens for an ‘open’ feel
  • Slide on desk screens for temporary installations
  • Single & triple tools rails
  • Straight, Wave & Arc shapes
  • Floor standing straight & curved screens

Screens are available in a multitude of widths and heights, we can advise you based on your team needs and styles of working.

Guide to Screen Sizes

Acoustic Wall Tiles

In addition to a wealth of screens we also supply a striking range of acoustic wall tiles which absorb room noise & control reverberation, ideal for open plan offices, canteens, conference areas and more.  Noise can be a distraction making it a challenge to concentrate or hear telephone dialog, these attractive acoustic tiles are available in a range of funky geometric shapes and you can combine fabric colours for more impact.  We can manufacture for bespoke requirements, drop us a line with your needs.

Acoustic wall tiles

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Office Chair reupholstery cost saving illustration

Quality office furniture is a long term investment and reupholstery provides an opportunity to extend the life of seating which over time becomes tired, damaged and dirty.

Our skilled upholsterers replace all seat and back foam with CHMR (Combustion Modified High Resilience) foam and you can choose from thousands of fabric types and colours whether you need to modernise, match other furniture or reflect new branding. In addition to new fabric and foam we also clean and service the frames, we check for frame damage and replace feet as required. We return your furniture transformed, looking like new and ready to serve you for many more years.

In this example, we have used the ever popular Edge Design Key meeting chair with chrome frame as pictured.

Cost of Key chair new:  £178

Cost of reupholstery – including new foam and fabric: £65

COST SAVING AGAINST BUYING A NEW KEY CHAIR: £113

Even on a single chair this represents a vast saving and we provide a free collection and delivery service within 50 miles of Reading, Berkshire.

Key chair upholstery

We based this illustration on using high quality, heavy duty  ‘contract’ reupholstery fabrics such as Camira Advantage Xtreme or faux leather Camira Vita, both market leading fabrics suitable for office seating and available in a wide range of colours whether you are looking for a vibrant new look or a more muted traditional tone.

Chair shown: KEY21B*/P with Chrome frame. Prices are a guideline and exclude VAT.

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Swivel meeting chairs to modernise your office

Meeting chair design has responded to the increased demand for seating which suits a more flexible, mobile and collaborative way of working.  Increasingly customers are adopting contemporary style swivel meeting chairs to replace more traditional rigid boardroom style chairs. These chairs are designed to respond to the shift we are seeing to a more active office environment and were developed to facilitate team and project work. View our range of swivel boardroom chairs.

Swivel meeting chairs

 

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School holiday reupholstery service

With schools out for summer in just 12 weeks time – now is the time to book your free site survey for any ‘holiday’ seating repairs, reupholstery and renovation. We reupholster all types of school seating including sofas, computer chairs and benches and our customers often save up to 80% against buying new seating.  In most cases reupholstery is a very attractive option but if a chair is beyond cost effective repair we provide a no obligation quotation for its replacement. We provide a free collection and delivery service* within 50 miles of Reading in Berkshire and can carry out reupholstery in the school holidays for minimum disruption. We also offer an onsite french polishing service for tables, banisters, wood panelling etc.

We offer a free site survey for schools, colleges and universities to assess your seating and advise on fabric selection, we only use high performing fabrics that stand up to the demands of education settings. We serve education customers throughout Berkshire, London, North Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Buckinghamshire. Find out more about our education reupholstery service.

We are proud to have provided reupholstery services to Reading School, Salesian College, Addington School, St Albans School, Highcrest School, Millbank Community School, New Bucks University, Luton College, Burham Upper School, Abbottsford School and many more.

Reupholstery for Education

*Free delivery and collection is subject to minimum order value and for commercial customers only.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Office screen reupholstery

Give desk screens a new lease of life with cost effective reupholstery. We can match seating upholstery if required or choose a contrasting fabric colour for added interest.  We can reupholster all screen types including pinable and acoustic screens.

  • Quick turnaround
  • Clean and fresh new look
  • Hundreds of fabrics to choose from
  • Convenient de-installation, collection, delivery and re-installation service

We often reccomend Camira Cara or Camira Lucia fabric ranges for screens, both are very popular vertical surface fabrics, Cara is a plain weave panel fabric used extensively on desk screens, wallsides and on pin boards. The Lucia fabric range is largely acoustically transparent and as such is ideal to be used as a decorative facing for sound absorbing boards. Please contact us to request fabric samples or a no obligation quotation.

Cara screen reupholstery fabric

View fabric swatchcards:

Camira Cara – Fabric Swatchcard

Camira Lucia – Fabric Swatchcard

We can de-install, collect, deliver and re-install your desk screens minimising any impact to your business.

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Commercial reupholstery service

Our commercial re-upholstery service continues to grow in popularity with many customers taking the opportunity to adopt a completly fresh new look. Often the mechanical components of quality office furniture will far out live the seat fabrics and foam which endure daily use and abuse, so re-upholstery makes good business sense.

Recent customers include councils, theatres, pharmaceutical labs, offices, estate agents, night clubs, hospitals, restaurants and many hotels.

Office reupholstery swivel chair

Our customers can be assured that all work is carried out to the highest standards by our inhouse re-upholstery team in our Reading workshops. We pride ourselves on great results and a quick turnaround and offer all customers a free collection and delivery service minimising business disruption. The stunning results speak for themselves and our service is sensibly priced.

In addition to standard office chair re-upholstery we also re-upholster reception sofas and chairs, booth and bench seating, conference and training seating as well as theatre and auditorium seating. We also manufacture bespoke furniture so whatever your furniture challenge – we can help.

We offer a free site survey where one of our experts will look at your chairs and advise you on the re-upholstery options available and talk you through fabric choices, there are hundreds of fabric types and colours to choose from whether you need to match existing chairs or a new colour scheme. We follow up our visit with a no obligation quotation and are confident that in the majority of cases, customers can save up to 80% against buying new chairs. Get in touch to discuss any requirement or email us a photo and we can often provide guideline prices straight away.

Chair repairs

We can often make cost saving repairs to chairs that otherwise may have been written off. We hold stock of common components from leading manfactuers such as bases and castors and can replace damaged arms or arm pads.

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Our office booth seating ranges – versatile seating for the modern office

Booth seating continues to grow in popularity and its easy to understand why when compared to the cost of traditional meeting rooms that are often empty for large parts of the day.  Booth seating is easily adaptable with many modular components which cater for changes in employee numbers and business needs.  Booth seating is portable and provides visual and acoustic privacy while offering all the power and media functionality required to conduct effective meetings.

  • Portable and modular meeting spaces
  • Versatile configuration possibilities
  • Power, USB charging and HDMI modules available
  • Add a monitor to infill panels for team meetings, presentations and collaboration

Explore our range of office booth seating, all booth seating is customised with your fabric selection.

Office Booth Seating Modules

Bespoke booth seating

Fro our Berkshire workshops we design and manufacture bespoke booth and banquette seating for offices, hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, here’s a video of bespoke banquette seating we recently manufactured and installed in a Berkshire nightclub.

Booth seating reupholstery

We offer free site surveys and planning advice and can advise you on fabric selection. Booth seating looks especially effective in two tone upholstery, we often reupholster in Camira Blazer a classic pure new wool upholstery fabric with a billiard cloth felted finish. The fabric is made from premium New Zealand lambswool.  Blazer is available in 60 colourways as shown below.

Camira Blazer