A well-designed office fits the needs and lifestyle of everyone who uses it — and that changes everything. How focused people are, how they move through the space, and how they feel by the end of the day. In New York City, where commercial square footage is expensive and expectations for how a workspace should function are high, getting office interior design right matters more than most businesses initially realize.

In the world of design and construction, the term commercial space refers to real-estate in which business is transacted and includes office buildings, corporate headquarters, private office spaces, and co-working spaces. The end users of these spaces are business owners and their employees and clients – people who spend, on average for a full-time professional, the same amount of time in the office as they do sleeping per day. The people who design and build these spaces have significant expertise in commercial settings – they know how to allocate space, select materials of the appropriate, commercial grade, quality, and navigate regulatory requirements.