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Grey office furniture: why one colour makes an office calmer
Grey office furniture has a reputation for being dull. Used as one consistent colour, it does the opposite: it lets the people, the plants and the art become the subject.
The problem is not grey, it is too many greys
Most offices are already grey, just in twelve slightly different shades: the desk frame, the chair base, the cabinet, the cable tray, the monitor arm. Each was bought from a different catalogue. The result looks accidental.
One grey, used for everything, reads as a decision. The furniture steps back and the room gets quieter.
Leave room for colour
When the furniture is grey, everything else can stand out: the carpet, the wooden ceiling, the plants, the art, the people. It becomes much easier to decide what an office should be about. Architects have known this for a while. Every Boring product, from the desk to the light, is RAL 7044.
Practical advantages
One colour means pieces can be added, moved or replaced years later and still match. It means a refurbished chair next to a new desk does not look second hand. And it makes the furniture easier to reuse when the office moves, because nobody needs it to match a brand colour that has since changed.
Questions
Which grey is Boring Collection?
RAL 7044, silk grey. It has not changed since 2016.
Does grey make an office feel cold?
Not when it is one warm grey and the rest of the room is allowed to have colour, texture and daylight.
