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Published: 11 March 2014

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Categories: Locker Solutions

Lockers. Sure, they mean storage, but often they can mean so much more than that. While the term itself may evoke memories of junior high school, the simple reality is that lockers have moved beyond the halls of education. You’ll find them in every police and fire station around the country. You find them on military bases, in sports and rec centers, in the dressing rooms of many healthcare facilities, and yes, even in schools. Not just one locker can possibility fit all of those needs, right? So where’s the innovation? Everywhere you turn.

Materials

Metal. L ockers are all made of metal, right? Nope. Plastic, metal, steel, wood. . .Is there a material out there that lockers aren’t made of? Probably not. What’s more, though, is that we’ll help you find both the ideal material and the perfect look to help meet your needs.

Sizes

Small. Big. Medium. Tiny. Lockers these days come in all shapes and sizes. If you need a spot for patrons to store their shoes while they go ice skating, we can help. If you need the right size to hold firearms while your officers are off-duty, we can help there too. No matter what the size, there’s a right fit for anything your patrons, employees, or students need to store.

Storage Ability

Books. Backpacks. Wet Gear. Dangerous Materials. Not every locker will store the same stuff. They’re made to hold all sorts of things, so finding the ideal choice to store yours can be tough. Let us help with our start to finish services.

Design

Attached. Unattached. Flexible. Electronic. Mobile. All of them describe today’s lockers. Design is perhaps the most innovative feature in the world of lockers today, so from recharging stations for employee PCs to secure evidence lockers with a pass-through spot for law enforcement, our designs are some of the hottest new choices in the industry.

To find the right lockers to meet your needs, please take contact Carroll Seating Company today. From start to finish, we’ll help you design, install, and even service the right storage systems to meet your needs.

Published: 4 March 2014

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

A lab is only as good as the equipment inside. So much of the world of science today relies on the best available technology, and that means top-of-the-line equipment for every theorized application. We’re proud to offer you the equipment and solutions you need with the help of two essential partners: Jamestown Metal Products and CampbellRhea.

Jamestown Metal

The single best known producer of steel and stainless steel casework and equipment often found in both lab and educational settings, Jamestown Metal Products has been building a name for itself for decades. With amazing designs and specialty choices, you won’t find better equipment choices than these, no matter what your lab needs. We’re proud to be able to serve you with this amazing catalog of options.

CampbellRhea

As soon as you enter the world of professional science, you know the name CampbellRhea as the go-to source for all things scientific. From phenomenal choices to effective, functional protection in any lab setting, this is one company you want standing behind you in the lab. Thanks to our work with them, we can offer you equipment and casework that looks as beautiful as it works.

The safety and usefulness of your lab and its projects depend on your ability to have better equipment at your fingertips all of the time. It spells progress. It spells safety for everyone involved. It also spells results, the one thing your lab is going to need to demonstrate again and again to continue.

Let us help. With the right partners, we have the equipment you need to move forward right now. Whether you’re just at the design phase or it’s time for a facelift, we’re here to help. Contact our team today to learn more about how Carroll Seating Company can help to fully equip your lab with all of the right components.

Published: 25 February 2014

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Categories: Furnishing a Library

The idea of open concept library furniture is growing fast. Libraries simply aren’t closed, dark spaces full of shelves and silent tables anymore. They’re changing as fast as the way people obtain information is, and a big part of that change is a shift in the furniture. If you’re thinking of giving your library a facelift, but you’re not quite sure what’s available, this quick guide can help.

Shelving

Any great library has lots of shelving, but it does not have to look quite so traditional these days. There are so many different choices. Looking to make an area friendlier for littler hands? Why not try a cute shaped display shelf that’s just the right size for your pint sized patrons. Need to display the best selections in a given section? End panel shelving or even canopy topped shelving may be the ideal answer.

Often how you store your materials is just as important as what materials you have in your facility, so feel free to dream big. From decorative end panels that help further a theme to cute choices that incorporate flexible seating options, reviewing your shelving choices carefully is a must.

Seating

Comfy arm chairs. Stacking modular seats. Traditional sturdy wood chairs. Squishy soft bean bag chairs. Wondering what they have in common? They’re all often part of today’s library at the same time. Those cozy spots are ideal in the places where your patrons might spend a bit of time chatting about the latest best seller.

The modular seating is ideal for the larger community gatherings your library might play host to. The sturdy wooden chairs are a must when it’s time for a more serious look at things. No matter what look you’re going for, the key with today’s library seating options is to make certain you’re serving the needs of everyone at the same time.

Study Areas

As important as collaboration can be in a library, quiet study is just as essential, so putting some thought into those individualized study spaces is an absolute must. Fortunately, there’s still plenty of modern options there too. Incorporate a little technology with plug in spaces for laptops and tablets. Get more traditional with flexible study carrels that can reconfigure as needed. Go with tables that work just as well for one as they do for an entire group. It’s all in the flexibility these days.

Proper Planning

Open concept library furniture is a broad area. You can’t simply choose a few products out of a catalog and have the right look for your library. Instead, you need an entire planning team on your side to look at your current space, show you the right options for that space, then help you put it all together. So, before you start that order form, contact the qualified library planning team at Carroll Seating Company today, then get ready to build the library of your dreams.

Published: 19 February 2014

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

Creating the perfect feel for a hospital is nothing short of complicated. You want to strike the ideal balance for soothing, calm, and healing for your patients and their families, but you need serious functionality for staff members. While much of this responsibility will lie within your overall décor choices, some of it will certainly rest with your casework choices, and that’s where we come in.

More Than Knowledge and Products . . .

At Carroll Seating Company, we have an amazing product catalog that’s packed full of choices for your hospital casework designs. We know that’s not enough to convince you to move forward with us, though. We can help you choose the perfect products in the perfect spots. We’ll be happy to discuss them with you until you’ve heard every possible feature. We know that’s not enough to convince you either, though.

In a healthcare facility like yours, one thing is going to really count, the experience to make yours the best possible facility. Working in a healthcare environment isn’t quite like working anywhere else in the world, is it? That’s why our solutions are designed specifically to meet the ongoing needs of your hospital, labs, or even your offices. We have a dedicated team that works only within the world of healthcare, so whether it’s the latest antimicrobial surfaces you’re looking for or a warm wood veneer that will help make a patient’s family feel at home, we can help.

Flexible, Functional, Focused

From start to finish, we’re the only stop you need to make in the world of casework for hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Know what you want? Great, we can order it, install it, and even make repairs if necessary. Have no idea where to turn as you start planning a new wing? Let us help with design and suggested materials.

For all your healthcare casework needs, contact us today.

Published: 13 February 2014

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Categories: Bleacher seating

Looking to make a distinct impression in your arena? Team logos can help make a big impression, and with the right seating company on your side, you’ll get both the choices and the look you want. Carroll Seating Company can help.

Personalize your Arena

There are arenas in almost every city you visit these days. From small cities with populations of less than 70,000 to huge places like New York and LA, everywhere you turn, there’s another arena for high school games, college games, professional sporting events, concerts, and other big shows.

With so many different arenas, though, it can be tough to make an impression on your patrons. One great choice? Consider team logos on all of your seating. Team logos are the one way to better brand your arena and further your team’s brand again and again. They’ll help to remind patrons why they come to your facility and help encourage all of your team’s marketing efforts.

Whether you put them on the portable seating options that sit on the side of the court or the fixed seating choices all around your space, you’re going to make the right decision when you go with personalization of this nature.

Enter Carroll Seating

If you’re ready to take the next step and personalize your entire arena, let Carroll Seating help. With more options for personalization than any other seating company in the world of arena seating choices today, we are your turnkey source for building your brand. From start to finish, we’ll work with you to get the right look. Even after you get your ideal seating installed, we’ll be right here to help with inspections and replacement parts down the road.

You want to make a strong impression on anyone who buys tickets to that next game or event, so go with a touch of personalization and team logos. Contact us to learn more.

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Published: 11 February 2014

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Categories: Locker Solutions

There are times when you simply need a locker for storage, then there are times when you need something quite a bit stronger. DeBourgh all-welded steel lockers are designed specifically for when you need something tough enough to stand up to the worst possible conditions. Designed specifically to offer the right storage solution no matter what the budget or circumstances, DeBourgh offers the ideal product for a variety of situations.

School Lockers – In an educational setting the goal is always to make certain students have access to the best possible storage solution. Unfortunately, that also comes with a need for solid durability, as students can be hard on lockers and other equipment. DeBourgh offers all-welded steel construction, so front to back, bottom to top, you get unbeatable strength. They’re available in one, two, and three tiered options, as well as twelve and fifteen inch widths and depths to better meet your existing layouts. Each locker is even pre-equipped with a polished aluminum number plate with etched black numbering to help ensure locker assignments are far easier to make.

Police and Fire Lockers – Good gear storage is a must for first responders like police and fire personnel, and nothing could be better than the line from DeBourgh. With an entire series designed to meet the unique storage needs of these everyday heroes, you’ll find serious security, storage, and durability in one package. From heavy-duty personnel lockers made to be spacious enough for all of your crew to turn out open front lockers that are ideal when speed is of the essence, this line comes with the construction and accessories necessary to make your job that much easier.

When you need real storage solutions, DeBourgh has the right answer. To learn more about how these amazing lockers can meet your facility’s needs, contact Carroll Seating today for a turnkey solution from design to installation and beyond.

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Published: 4 February 2014

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Categories: School seating

Almost every space in your school needs a good seating option. Take a moment to do a quick mental inventory. Despite the fact that every classroom in your building may have a different function, all of them need both a place to sit and a place to work. From traditional desks and chairs to lab tables to computer stations, students can’t learn without the proper seating spaces. Your gym also needs a safe seating space, likely in the form of telescopic bleachers. The lunchroom needs good seating options. The library needs both seating and work space options. Even your offices and boardroom need better choices. The better the seating, the more welcoming the atmosphere. Fortunately, Carroll Seating is here to help.

Lots of Seating, Just One Solution

Created more than half a century ago by Patrick Carroll, Sr., we’ve been serving school seating needs just like yours for generations. Whether you need the right bleachers in the gym or you’re looking to make your cafeteria feel a bit more like a café, we have the right solution. With lab casework for your science classrooms and shelving for your library, our services are so complete, you won’t need another company for help. We can even help outfit your basketball team with the right equipment to win the championship this season.

Carroll Seating finds serving the school market with the right products essential, but we also offer a complete line of service and repair that ensure you always find turnkey help with us. We’ll not only step in at the design phase of a project, making the right suggestions to create the ideal space, but we’ll be there past installation to help with all of your repair needs down the line.

Your school depends of great furnishings in every room, so let us help make that a reality. To learn more about our complete line of goods and services, please contact us today.

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Published: 28 January 2014

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Categories: Bleacher seating

Season after season, your bleachers are ready to take it. With people stomping up, down, and all around, they have to be ready to offer a comfortable, safe spot to see the action. Because they get so much use and abuse, though, there are times when inspection, and possibly part replacement, becomes absolutely necessary. In situations like those, there’s no better place to turn than Carroll Seating Company.

A Long History of Service

Formed in 1952 by Patrick Carroll, Sr, this amazing company got its start with church pews in a basement. Carroll later began to sell furniture to private schools, then eventually public schools. These days, our company has expanded to do nearly $29 million each year in sales, and a big part of our commitment to customers isn’t just the products we stock, but the support to make it all work day after day.

Bleachers And More

Bleachers are an important part of many settings, but as with any seating solution, they can be dangerous if they’re not properly maintained. That’s why Carroll Seating is available both for bleacher inspections and repair. We stock hundreds of the most common replacement parts for all bleacher systems manufactured after 1980, and if you have a special request, we can fill that too. We even keep replacement parts for fixed auditorium and stadium seating on hand.

You want your patrons to be as safe as possible, so when it’s time to do that annual inspectio, it’s time to contact us. We’ll inspect for safety, code compliance, or even operational issues to make certain that you have the best seating solution to meet your needs.

Time to replace your bleacher system? We can help there, too. A turnkey solution, Carroll Seating Company will be here to help your space do a bit more with every event or game.

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Published: 21 January 2014

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

The best casework is as beautiful as it is functional, and nowhere does that need to be more true than in the world of student housing. Student housing these days is changing fast. What was once a fairly simple concept gets more intricate every year as colleges and universities try to attract students to their housing facilities. Students are often used to living in their own rooms with direct access to their own kitchens, so moving into a dorm environment where there may be up to four people to a room with little access to options like kitchens is a tough sell. As a result, more higher education institutions are working to make those dorms seem just a bit more like home, providing even single person rooms and kitchen areas for just a few people at a time. It helps to make students feel a little more at home and keeps them on campus longer.

The Casework

A big part of this shift on the part of colleges, though, is creating the right atmosphere and environment, and good casework is part of that. Often it demands a beautiful, customized solution, not an off-the-shelf product that’s available just anywhere. Students typically need a durable work surface, among other things. They typically need closet spaces, vanities, and desk areas. In some cases, a kitchen counter is a must, as is cabinetry to hold kitchen gear. The best dorms also come with security desks, mail rooms, and more.

Choosing the first cut-rate product available, though, simply won’t do for today’s generation of students. Instead, aesthetics must combine with functionality. After all, with so many different housing choices on the market for today’s very mobile students, creating an attractive living space is as important as creating a convenient one is.

Today’s colleges and universities must think about that beauty in conjunction with durability that will hold up month after month, year after year, student after student. Working with the right company has to be part of the equation. The ideal company will not only provide solutions from some of the best known casework brands out there today, but they’ll also provide the level of turnkey support that most institutions find so necessary. From the early design stages to the actual installation and service phase, finding that one company who can handle everything is typically the best way to save time and money when it comes to casework in the world of student housing.

Student housing certainly isn’t what it once was, and it’s not headed back into that territory any time soon. Beautiful casework can help provide a better dorm environment that will prove attractive for students in the years to come.

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Published: 14 January 2014

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Categories: School seating

There are lots of great brands when it comes to cafeteria and folding tables, but few could be as dynamic as Mitchell. With the phenomenal ability to offer more seating in areas you previously thought limited, Mitchell is the way to move forward.

The Mitchell Advantage

One of the best aspects about Mitchell is that the company is wholly focused on designing solutions to real situations. Their designs are nothing short of ingenious in most cases, and the craftsmanship is certainly completed with durability alone in mind. Mitchell initially got its start in 1896 in the world of dairy equipment, but with the World War II efforts, they patented a folding table design that has long since enhanced and improved cafeterias like yours everywhere.

Your Options with Mitchell

If you’re thinking Mitchell, get ready for some real options. If you’re just interested in the tables themselves, you can choose from a number of shapes and sizes, all of which fold to give you the flexibility you need throughout your facility. Want tables with attached seating? That’s an option as well. Like their non-seating counterparts, they come in the perfect configurations to meet your needs, but they’re just as durable as any other choice on the market. Their full line of ConverTable benches offer movement from a table with seating to a bench in an instant. The classic folding leg tables work well anywhere, not just in your cafeteria. The wall mounted systems they have come with a Sur-Lock system that help to increase security in a multi-purpose room.

Lots of Choices

No matter which line you choose to move forward with, you’re going to get the choices that will make your selection perfect. Choose sizes, laminate color, edge treatments, and even table and bench top material choices.

If you’re in the market to change the face of your cafeteria, Mitchell is easily one of the best brands to consider.