Using Auditorium Seats as Waiting Room Chairs

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Using Auditorium Seats as Waiting Room Chairs
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• From corporate offices to beauty salons, there
  are many impressive looking waiting rooms which
  are designed to both make clients feel welcome
  and create a good first impression. At the other
  end of the scale there are also many waiting
  rooms that are dull and uninspiring spaces.
• As the gateway to your organisation, your waiting
  room or reception area is often where clients and
  visitors form their first impressions of your
  business so its important it projects a positive
  image.
• If you are regularly visited by existing or
  potential clients, it makes sense to ensure the
  areas they will see like your reception/waiting
  area and boardroom are maintained to a standard
  that reflects the ethos of your business.

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• When it comes to revamping your waiting room,
  its a good idea to first look at it as a visitor
  would. Follow the same journey they would do to
  access your waiting room and take a seat in one
  of your waiting room chairs.
• Look around and assess everything as you go how
  do the décor, furnishings and lighting make you
  feel? Is the seating comfortable to sit in and
  does the layout work? Think about what
  improvements could be made and where, taking all
  of these different elements into account.
• It may just need a lick of paint and some new
  accessories to brighten it up, or you may decide
  its time to invest in some new waiting room
  chairs.

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Auditorium Style Waiting Room Chairs

• Whilst there are a vast range of waiting room
  chairs on the market, you may not have considered
  auditorium style seating as an option but it can
  work very well for this purpose and offers
  several benefits that you dont get with more
  traditional styles of waiting room chairs.
• First of all, auditorium seats are designed to be
  floor-fixed this means the layout of the space
  will always look tidy as patrons will be unable
  to move them around.
• Auditorium chairs also generally feature a
  flip-up seat this is great in waiting rooms
  where space is at a premium as it helps widen
  walkways when seats are not in use and opens up
  the floor area making it look more spacious. This
  works particularly well in corridors or narrow
  spaces.

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• In the hospital corridor pictured right, our
  Orion auditorium seating was adapted to create
  the Bradford Beam. Whilst you would normally find
  this style of seating in a theatre upholstered in
  red velvet fabric, here you can see how it has
  been re-purposed to create a totally different
  look, upholstered in anti-microbial vinyl in
  three different shades of blue and finished with
  polished wooden arms and end panels. This scheme
  won a prestigious design award.
• If you like this style of seating but prefer
  seats to be fixed rather than flip-up, most
  auditorium seats can be manufactured to either
  stay down unless they are manually tipped or to
  remain fixed in position.

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• Auditorium style waiting room chairs can also be
  used to create a unique look in corporate office
  waiting rooms. Pictured left, our Olympian
  stadium seating was used by a company who
  developed an app for football fans.
• They wanted to create a football matchday
  experience in their reception area and opted to
  use a range of vinyl colours to avoid affiliation
  with any one team. The seats were installed on
  top of artificial turf with a mini floodlight
  positioned in the corner.
• This company chose to have the name of their app
  embroidered on seat backs in white thread to
  co-ordinate with all the different seat colours.
• Logo embroidery not only offers a great branding
  opportunity but can also help create a premium
  image in your waiting room. Anything from simple
  wording to a detailed crest can be embroidered on
  seat backs to give a truly unique look.

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• Pictured below are a selection of auditorium
  seats which can be adapted for use as waiting
  room chairs. These can be fixed in rows or
  installed as individual seats. From barbers shops
  and beauty salons to offices and healthcare
  establishments, the fabric and finish chosen can
  make any of these seats suitable for a range of
  different environments.

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• We understand that this year you may have been
  restricting the number of visitors in your
  waiting room due to COVID-19, or it may have been
  out of use altogether.
• However, if you want to make improvements to your
  waiting room ready for when visitors are able to
  safely return, it doesnt take too much effort to
  make a striking transformation, particularly if
  you only have a small space.
• If you are looking at sourcing new seating then
  you may wish to consider auditorium style seating
  as an option.

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Social Distancing Solutions for Waiting Room
Chairs

• Waiting rooms are often high traffic spaces but
  in 2020 many will have sat unoccupied as visitors
  to various establishments have had to wait
  outdoors or not visit at all.
• Those waiting rooms that are still being used
  will have had to reduce the number of waiting
  room chairs to allow for social distancing or
  mark some seats as out of use to prevent patrons
  from sitting too close together.
• Where seats cannot be moved, social distancing
  aids such as Evertauts Seat Covers and Seat Caps
  are useful solutions that can help facilitate
  social distancing.

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• For those establishments looking for more
  permanent social distancing solutions, individual
  floor fixing chairs can be installed 2 metres
  apart and then cannot be moved around.
• Additional chairs can be fitted in between where
  required in the future.

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