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Published: 19 December 2013

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Categories: Lecture and Theater Seating

Trying to design the perfect lecture room to meet your needs? The standard design may not work any longer. Today’s students and professionals alike are all a savvier brand, and they don’t like what’s come before them. Engaging them, then, is going to mean much more than yesterday’s lecture room. These tips can help you design the ideal room to meet your needs.

Collaboration, Anyone? A lecture room may be for lectures, but collaboration is a must in many different settings these days, and that’s as true in a lecture room as it is anywhere else. Making that possible through the right seating choices is certainly possible, but you may have to do a little searching to find the perfect table and chairs to meet your needs.
Lots of Seating! Lecture rooms aren’t always going to be in use by the same group of people. In some cases, you may need to house much more than your standard capacity, and if that’s a possibility, you want to go with comfortable seating for anyone who might appear in your lecture room for a given occasion. You’ll need flexible seating choices that give all participants a great view.
Comfort Is a Must! You can’t simply stick with the traditional uncomfortable lecture seats in every setting. Instead, you may want unique, form fitting choices, like many of the best office chairs on the market today. How might that be possible in a lecture room? Just go with the fixed table choice instead of the attached chairs. It means ADA compliance and every participant gets the most comfortable seat in the house.

As you search for the right non-traditional solutions for your lecture room, let us help. With decades of experience in designing the perfect seating solutions to meet your needs, Carroll Seating is the only place to turn for all of your lecture hall needs. Contact us today to learn more.

Published: 12 December 2013

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Categories: School seating

School cafeterias haven’t always been pleasant places. From second rate food to uncomfortable seating choices, just the mere word cafeteria invokes all sorts of problem memories for most people. The world is changing fast, though, and with it, the school cafeteria is shifting too. Could yours actually be inviting? Absolutely, and these simple changes could help.

Cut Down On “Mass” Anything

From eliminating a single lunch choice for students to dumping the long tables where every single kid has to sit together day after day, get rid of the idea that cafeteria time at your school has to involve a singular, drone-like experience. Imagine going to your favorite fast food restaurant, standing in a very long line to receive a tray of food that looked just like every other patron’s, then being forced to sit next to every other person dining in the restaurant. You wouldn’t stay long, would you? As you redesign your school cafeteria, try to make it mimic the experience you might want while you’re eating. Put a couple of cashier stations out there. Add personal tables, booths, and other seating areas to give the students a chance to socialize with their friends.

Spice Things Up

One look at any school cafeteria menu, and you’ll see that things have changed over the last few decades. With choices like fajitas, pepperoni pizza, and even meatball subs. If a menu can have lots of dishes to please a variety of palates, can’t your décor be just as pleasing? Add student artwork to the picture. Throw in some creative portraits of your mascots. Choose a theme and throw in some 3D artwork to help really add to the feel of the cafeteria.

Don’t Overlook the Details

Sometimes it’s the tiny details that can change a cafeteria environment for the better. A new flooring choice may brighten things up. Helpful condiment stations may give students better access to what they need during a lunch period. Simple choices like planters can help divide up student seating and create a calmer atmosphere.

You want lunch time to be just as productive for your students as class time, and a few simple changes like these can help.

Published: 10 December 2013

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

Often today’s office environments are defined by a culture of mobility and portability. Carrying that trend all the way through your office can have a huge impact on the feel of your space. You can’t neglect even the simplest design element, though, when you’re working to create a specific feel, and that includes your casework. Fortunately, the designs available with Case Systems are a perfect fit for the flexibility today’s office spaces demand.

The Case Systems Difference

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Think any casework can meet your needs? That’s just not true. You want an option that involves a solid design process, high quality materials, and better manufacturing standards, and nowhere are all these factors more involved than they are with Case Systems. Every piece of casework is designed to ensure you get more value for your investment, helping to enhance your office space in the years to come. All of their casework choices use engineered particleboard substrates, plastic laminate surfaces, superior edging, and institutional grade hardware, so outstanding performance is always the name of the game.

Better Options

You could find some of the highest quality casework in the world, but if it doesn’t match the tone you’re working to set, you still don’t have the right choice for you. Fortunately, Case Systems joins higher quality casework with the right options to meet your needs. You can select from a variety of color choices for both the laminate and edges to create selections that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are manageable. Whether you want a wood look, a gray, or even a white, Case Systems has it covered. Looking for something to go with that enhanced executive look in your boardroom? What about a nice cherry? Looking for something a little more modern? What about a bright white? No matter what the color and style, Case Systems has the options you need available now.

If you’re interested in taking your casework to a higher level, contact us today for a closer look at how Case Systems can help.

Published: 3 December 2013

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Categories: Seating Solutions

Folding chairs are one of the best ways to get high quality portable seating options, no matter what the venue. The problem? When you think of folding chairs, you think of hard metal seating options that offer little in the way of real comfort. Folding chairs don’t have to be hard hunks of metal no one looks forward to, though. Instead, you can get comfort and portability in one amazing package.

Premium

A better venue deserves better portable seating options, and we certainly have them. It’s the single best way to give customers and fans an experience they’ll remember. Go with contour foam, a suspension seat, wider seats, or even front and rear leg covers for a look that won’t invoke memories of hard metal chairs. Looking for arm rests? We can do that too. We can even customize it with your logo, a tablet arm, or ganging to help keep your chairs side by side. The bottom line is that you get better chairs and a more comfortable experience, no matter who is headed to your venue.

Simple, Yet Comfortable

Need something a bit more budget friendly? We can help there, too. The 3000 series has lots of choices, including wider seats to make sure all of your customers have enough personal space, a heavy duty model for those courtside seats, and molded foam options for a great level of comfort. You can even choose your upholstery to help support your team or school.

As you search for the right portable seating to meet your needs, let us help with turnkey services. With a quick look at your facility and the types of uses for which portable seating might be appropriate, we’ll help you select the ideal model for your gym, arena, or other facility. Contact us today to learn more.

Published: 26 November 2013

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Categories: Gym and Sports Equipment

Your customers demand a higher level of equipment. The last thing you want is second rate products when a potential customer walks through the door. Where do you turn to get better equipment for your gym or club every single day? Performance Sports.

One Step Ahead

Performance Sports has been working with health clubs and gyms for more than 90 years, so they know what it takes to offer professional-grade equipment to commercial facilities like yours. Everything they have is custom-built to better meet your needs. It always includes a powder-coating, so you get a reliable finish that looks great over the long run. It all meets CPSC safety guidelines and meets LEED requirements for VOC compliance, keeping your gym a little greener.

Choosing Performance Sports also means the right design consultations to help you learn how to do more with your space and a certified service program that will help you maintain your equipment year after year. It’s easily a better experience all the way around. From design, to installation, to service, Performance Sports is definitely the way to go.

Better Equipment, Better Choices

You simply can’t find a better selection than you will with Performance Sports. Whether you’re looking for fantastic basketball equipment, a traveling tournament system, the right volleyball equipment, or even indoor batting cages, Performance Sports has a complete line of choices for every aspect of your gym. Thinking of adding bleachers or even a bike rack outside? Performance Sports can help there too.

With all of the choices you need for your gym or club, you simply won’t look anywhere else for the commercial grade equipment necessary to give your customers and patrons a better experience every time they step through the door of your facility.

To learn more about how to furnish your gym or club with Performance Sports equipment, contact us today.

Published: 19 November 2013

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Categories: Locker Solutions

As you work to find the right lockers for your station, the key is getting choices that meet the ongoing needs of your force. Not every force is going to be the same, either. Whether you’re a small county squad or you’re outfitting several stations within a city, getting the right evidence and weapons locker is key to maintaining the chain of custody as well as the safety within your station. Here are a few concerns you may want to consider while you look around at your options.

Evidence Lockers

The single most important thing you can remember as you select evidence lockers to meet your needs is that integrity is essential to the justice system. You cannot build a case on evidence that hasn’t had a secure chain of custody during the short-term storage period that moves it out of the suspect’s hands and into the evidence room. You must have something that is airtight, secure, and ready to handle a variety of different types of evidence. You may also want something in which officers can securely deposit the evidence at any point in time without having to deal with a key or a combination or even call in an evidence technician if it’s an after-hours drop-off. Keep in mind that in some situations, you may need refrigerated evidence lockers to handle temperature sensitive evidence or even drying evidence cabinets for controlled access to blood and biological substances.

There are two main choices with evidence storage: those with a pass-through option and those without it. Pass-through lockers allow officers to deposit evidence in one side and technicians to retrieve it from the other side. Either way can be perfect for your station, but some choices might work better in certain environments. Those smaller stations without an evidence technician, for example, may not need something as complex as a pass-through option.

Weapons Lockers

Security is the name of the game when it comes to weapons lockers. You want something that will keep your gear safe and secure until you’re ready to use it. You may also have spacing issues that make more flexible systems a must. Before you even begin to shop for the right weapons lockers, though, take a close look at your gear situation. Understanding how many small arms lockers, how many shotgun storage racks, and whether you’ll need portable weapons storage is a must.

No matter what you choose, you’ll likely want to go with a neoprene liner to help protect your weapons and those made from heavy duty steel to prevent unauthorized entry. You’ll also need to choose from wall-mounted versions and those that are floor mounted. Your choice there will depend on the layout of your station.

Good evidence and weapons locker choices are a must, no matter how large your force. Choose a turnkey company that can help from design to installation to get the best choices for your station.

Published: 5 November 2013

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Categories: Seating Solutions

Sitting down in the cafeteria isn’t always the best experience. It’s just not part of human nature to want to sit in an industrial environment to eat, whether with friends or on your own. Fortunately, there are a number of great ways to change that feeling, and innovative seating choices from Palmer Hamilton can help.

Table Styles

One of the most important choices you’ll make is getting the right table style, and that will depend heavily on the use of the cafeteria space outside of serving food. If it’s only a food service facility, you have lots of amazing options. From fiberglass or upholstered cafeteria booths to freestanding tables and amazing circular booths that will truly change the way people look at the cafeteria, your options are virtually limitless in that department. You can give any cafeteria a café style feel in a hurry.

If you need mobile style seating options, you may be a bit more limited, but you don’t have to stick with wall pocket systems if you have the right storage space. Instead, you can go with shaped or elongated tables as well as chair or bench style seating. What’s more, though, is that you can choose a number of laminate surfaces that may even include customized graphics to help change the atmosphere of your lunchroom.

Making the Most of Your Space

The key with any seating choice you make is to ensure you’ve better filled your space. It can be tough to even know where to begin, but we can help with customized floor plan services that will ensure you consider every aspect of your space.

No matter what concerns you may have about your cafeteria, let us help you solve them. Cafeteria seating is our specialty, and we’ll not only help you design the ideal environment, but also help open up your options when it comes to the ideal seating choices. Contact us today for more information on Palmer Hamilton cafeteria seating solutions.

Published: 29 October 2013

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

Your office space is meant to be beautiful. Everything in it should fit your needs, right down to the woodwork. If you’re looking to move your office to the next level, you probably already understand that off the shelf solutions can’t always do that. Fortunately, you can create a beautiful workspace with customized architectural woodwork.

Your Woodwork Options

Wondering exactly where the right woodwork options might change the face of your office? There are actually several places to consider. Start by rethinking your office as a whole. How efficiently are you using space right now? If it’s just not working, that might be the perfect place to start. You may also want to consider storage. If you need additional storage but you don’t want to compromise on the overall style you already have in your office, our custom architectural woodwork might be the perfect choice. From wall panels to display cases to complete reception areas, we’d be happy to help with all the right touches you may not have considered when you got started.

Be Sure to Consider the Materials

Your work is far from done once you’ve decided on the right architectural woodwork choices. Selecting the materials use will seriously impact the appearance of your project. There are so many options available today, though, that it’s easy to get overwhelmed. You’ll need to consider not only the right look, but your budget as well. At the cheaper end, plastic laminate surfaces provide simple beauty and durability. They look great, yet are easy to clean and maintain. Wood veneer can get more expensive, but often offers an upscale touch that’s perfect in a number of different settings.

Contact us today, and learn more about how our carefully manufactured woodworking solutions might be the ideal touch for your offices or facilities.

Published: 22 October 2013

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Categories: Furnishing a Library

Libraries are changing fast. What was once simply a repository for books and a mecca of study has now morphed into a center of learning, complete with a variety of multimedia aspects. Whether you’re talking about an elementary school or a university library, today’s choices have to do far more than they ever did before, and the right furniture is part of that mission. Fortunately Brodart offers a wide variety of choices to help you meet your goals.

Start With The Basics

You need the right places for your patrons to sit and study materials, and there are a number of great choices that can really open your library to new uses. Their line of lounge furniture means comfort, style, and an easy experience that is ideal throughout the library. Creative collaborative choices include the Epoch Iso Tables, that are perfect for traditional study or powering up the laptop for a complete online experience. The synchTable option also gives patrons five different mobile shaping options that can change as your library does.

Don’t forget about your computers in the equation, either. Brodart offers a range of choices that are perfect for computer use. From those with a more traditional look to surfaces with adjustable heights, a sophisticated feel, or even a creative feel that will help younger patrons go to new places with their computer use, the sky is the limit with your multimedia furniture.

Right Down to the Chairs

What they’re sitting on can make almost as much difference as where they sit. Instead of going with traditional library chairs, you may want to go with something like the unique two position chair or even the Brodart creative line that will reintroduce art and design to your library setting.

Don’t Forget those Little Touches

Your furniture choices don’t have to end at the furniture your patrons use when they study, read, or collaborate. There are lots of finishing touches that will pull the look together. When was the last time you thought about your end panels? They don’t have to be simple wood finishes. Instead, they can employ amazing designs that will have you rethinking libraries entirely. Go as loud and bright as you like, particularly if it helps to draw readers further into the shelves.

Don’t stop at the ends of the shelves, though. Think about the shelves themselves, too. If you’ve been in a book store recently, you’ve probably seen the open shelving choices so many marketers are employing. That’s also more than possible in the library setting. With choices like these, you can put your most requested materials in unique configurations that will help to ensure all of your materials shine.

Libraries are not the places they once were, and the right furniture choices can help you change that.

Published: 18 October 2013

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Categories: Bleacher seating

Thanks to a number of high profile incidents in recent years, new guidelines have been issued with regard to both indoor and outdoor bleachers. They must not only be more carefully constructed and installed than ever, but even existing bleachers must now be inspected annually. While these guidelines may seem a bit difficult to abide by, the reality is that fan safety has to play a role in the upcoming basketball season, and bleacher inspection should be a big part of that.

The CPSC Guidelines

The CPSC has set forth a number of guidelines to help guide bleacher inspection. Facilities now have to provide routine inspection and maintenance at least twice each year as recommended by the manufacturer. When it comes to operating bleachers, only trained personnel are allowed to open and close them. Students should certainly be kept away from them. Guard rails also have to be part of your safety plan with bleachers, as they not only help keep fans from falling, but they’re a good indicator that the bleachers are completely extended. In the event that bleachers need quite a bit of work after an annual inspection, the CPSC has said that replacement instead of retrofitting is the preferred way to go.

Who Can Handle the Inspection?

Not just anyone should handle your bi-annual bleacher inspection. Instead, you need to move forward with the help of a licensed, professional engineer, a registered architect, or a company qualified to provide bleacher products and services. They should not only carefully inspect the bleachers, but also offer you written certification that they’re fit for use.

Let Carroll Seating Company help you meet these guidelines. Contact us today to enroll in our maintenance and safety inspection program for all of your indoor and outdoor seating.