Wooden Sash Windows Or Plastic Windows Which Makes Better Impression In Office Interior
If you are remodeling your old office or designing a new one you will eventually come to the question of windows. You may muse in one of those rambling interior monologues that require no punctuation, wooden sash windows or plastic windows which option gives a better impression in an office environment.
You want to make the best impression possible on clients and others who come to your office. You want your office to speak of the high quality of your work. You want it to represent your excellent taste. You want it to inspire confidence. Which material is more likely to inspire confidence?
Anyone who saw the 1967 film The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman, or any of the many theatrical versions, will remember the advice from Mr. McGuire: “Plastics”. He was correct, of course, that there was a great future in plastics. People who have invested and worked in plastics have made a lot of money and provided many exciting and innovative products.
But even knowing about all the innovative products and successful career that have grown out of the plastics industry people are suspicious. You don’t have to have seen The Graduate to have the feeling that plastics represent something superficial, disposable and artificial. Even as people use plastics at home, at work, in industry and at school they harbor an awareness that these picnic forks or this computer keyboard is not meant to last.
While we all use plastic products and are grateful for them, plastic still evokes certain negative feelings in people. People who seem to lack depth or integrity are often described as being plastic.
When people do business they don’t want to work with plastic people. They may be very up to date in their thinking and even contemptuous of old fashioned values. But when it comes to signing on the dotted line they want to believe they are working with someone who values honesty and integrity.
Your choice of building materials can hint at what your values are. Choosing wood can suggest that you value tradition and craftsmanship. Your choice suggests that you value enduring quality over superficial appearance.
The BBC recently ran a story about a “Plague of Plastic Windows” ruining historic structures. People who love and respect historic architecture are aghast.
If your office is in an older building you definitely don’t want to introduce plastic where once there were wooden sash windows. People will notice. The effect will be disturbing. It will be evident that corners were cut and short cuts were taken.
In a newer building wood sash windows can stand as a reminder of the quality of workmanship that has not quite gone out of style in your office.
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