3 Reasons to Update Senior Living Furniture

Published by: Northland - March 22, 2017

Senior living furniture continues to play a significant role in shared housing communities as more baby boomers march towards retirement age. This sophisticated demographic carries with them higher expectations for their living environment.

One current trend in senior living communities takes its cue from the hospitality industry. Design elements that feel less institutional and more hotel-like will appeal to future residents and their adult children who frequently help their parents decide where to live.

Increase revenues by enhancing your facility’s reputation

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First impressions only take a moment to create. By updating old furniture, senior living operators will improve the look and feel of their premises. Moreover, old furniture may not have been designed and built to meet today’s exacting standards for safety and durability.

Northland manufacturers senior living furniture collections that are aesthetically pleasing, durable, and functional. By incorporating new furniture designed to meet both the visual and practical needs of their residents, senior living communities will enable older adults to feel more at ease.

Reduce maintenance and repair costs for senior living furniture

Furniture represents a substantial capital investment for all senior living communities. On average, furniture in public, high-trafficked spaces needs to be replaced every 5-7 years due to regular use. When deciding between repairing or replacing furniture, there are several factors to consider.

The benefits of replacing worn, outdated senior living furniture include reducing maintenance costs and attracting new residents. Moreover, purchasing durable, well-made senior living furniture will minimize the cost of replacement down the line.

Interior designers, architects, and senior living community owners can look to Northland when deciding where to purchase their casegoods. Northland offers a longer than industry average 10-year warranty. Northland furniture can help reduce maintenance costs and can be custom designed to meet a broad range of requirements.

Customize your furniture to create spaces that work

Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all. Senior living communities can enhance the quality of life for their residents by creating a sense of community while respecting the need for privacy. For example, dining facilities with a restaurant-like feel encourages social interaction, while resident rooms featuring beautiful furniture designed to maximize space will be more inviting

Incorporating the comforts and amenities of home will surely be more attractive to prospective residents, and can be achieved by choosing furniture that is beautifully crafted and designed for safety and durability.

Northland manufacturers casegoods for hospitality, senior living, and healthcare. Freestanding collections can be previewed at our online project portfolio and catalogs. Northland also works closely with designers to create custom designed furniture. Applications for Northland casegoods include resident rooms, dining, and activity spaces, and common areas.

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How Hospitality Interior Designers Create Beautiful Hotel Guest Rooms

Published by: Northland - March 8, 2017

Interior design is both an art and science. The role of hospitality interior designers is unique because they must consider how public spaces connect with the variety of people who use them. The best interior designers create beautiful hotel guest rooms and spaces that appeal to the emotions of hotel guests while anticipating their needs.

Professionals who design commercial interiors specify everything from carpets, paint colors, and light fixtures to furnishings, casegoods, and more. Northland understands the important role of interior design and how it influences the way people live, work, play, and even heal.

We work closely with interior architects and designers to custom design hospitality furniture for a wide variety of applications. Northland’s commitment to excellence is demonstrated in the quality and beauty of its hospitality, student housing, and senior living furniture.

4 Popular Hotel Styles

The number one goal of every hospitality designer is to create functional and appealing spaces. The most popular design styles that influence and inspire interior design for hotel guest rooms are as follows:

  • Contemporary—Uses negative space to convey the feeling of basic and bare. Hospitality interior designers use contemporary furniture design when they want simple shapes with smooth edges.
  • Craftsman—Strives to harmonize with the environment by the use of natural materials such as wood and leather. Craftsman interior design is very popular in the Pacific Northwest for boutique hotels and National Parks.
  • Industrial—Aims to create vast spaces with open floor plans. The industrial interior design style incorporates materials such as brick, rough wood, and metals.
  • Mid-Century Modern—Is well suited for small spaces and is often used in boutique hotels.
  • Traditional— Reproduces furniture from early historical periods. Traditional interiors have a comfortable, homey feel with soft edges on furnishings and often include floral patterns.

Hospitality Interior Designers: Creating Durable, Well-designed Casegoods

It is important for hospitality interior designers who specify for hotels, senior living facilities, and student dormitories to choose durable, well-designed casegoods for their guest rooms and public spaces.

Northland casegoods are designed to last and are both functional and aesthetic, making them an appealing choice for hoteliers and designers.

Hospitality interior designers can turn to Northland, a hospitality furniture manufacturer, to help them create spaces that are inviting, aesthetically pleasing, comfortable, and enduring. Northland artisans have been designing and building high-quality furniture for more than 40 years.

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The Importance of Durable Hotel Contract Furniture

Published by: Northland - March 1, 2017

Durable hotel contract furniture is a must have to impress travelers from near and far. When a guest first enter enters a guest room, the importance of making a great first impression cannot be overstated. Hotel contract furniture must be able to withstand frequent use and the test of time while remaining beautiful.

Casegoods designed for the contract market are meant to be extra durable, which makes the use of quality woods and craftsmanship of utmost importance. Hoteliers and interior designers who want durable hotel contract furniture made in the USA can look to Northland Furniture when specifying furnishings for renovations and new construction.

Durable hotel contract furniture can save money in the long run

Hotel guests sleep in beds, sit in chairs, and work at desks while in their rooms, which means a hotel’s furniture plays a meaningful role in determining a guest’s overall experience during their stay. The feeling of comfort, cleanliness, and in some cases, even luxury, determine whether guests will be returning, or not. Losing a guest’s loyalty due to worn or out-of-date furniture means losing money.

Even though hotel contract furniture represents a significant capital expense, hoteliers can save money in the long run by choosing high-quality wood furniture that will endure many years of frequent use. By offering an industry-leading 10-year warranty, Northland Furniture stands behind the beautiful casegoods they design and build for exceptional strength and durability.

Northland is a leading contract furniture manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. Whether you are interested in developing new furniture designs or purchasing from our product catalogs, Northland Furniture can help distinguish your property and elevate your guest’s experience.

Northland’s featured projects are easy to preview online. Our photo portfolio displays original and custom designs in addition to hardware and finish choices for hospitality projects throughout the USA.

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Soldier Life Made More Like Home With Northland

Published by: Northland - January 18, 2017

Life in the military, while rewarding for its opportunity to serve our country, has its difficulties. For many soldiers, living on base comes with its own set of challenges.

One of these challenges comes with living in the barracks. Outdated furniture that’s in need of replacing can make day-to-day living uncomfortable for the modern soldier. For those men and women separated from their families, having some comforts of home can soften that distance.

While seemingly simple, new furniture for military applications shows the soldier living in the barracks a genuine concern for their well-being. As part of enhancing morale, an infantry division recently worked to improve the quality of life for its soldiers by bringing in new furniture and other amenities to the battalion barracks. Following the install, a soldier stated “I wasn’t aware they were going to do this for us. You can tell that they really care about our well-being.” Sometimes, even the simplest acts can have profound effects.

Bases Are Often Looking to Improve Quality of Life

Military bases are often looking to improve quality of life for their soldiers and families. Also, furniture improvements go a long way towards that goal, and Northland Furniture can help.

Whether you’re looking for an extra long table for a new conference room, furnishings for offices or beds for the barracks, Northland can build the furniture you need. Don’t be concerned if you don’t see something you want in the collections we offer.. Our designers and craftsmen can create furniture uniquely designed for your specifications. We enjoy being creative and are excited to expand on our custom commercial furniture options.

Custom Furniture for Military Housing

Contact Northland for more information about custom furniture design for military housing. Whether you want to customize items within our collections or work with us to create something truly unique, we have the skill and creativity to build furniture that your soldiers will love for many years to come.

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Contract Furniture Quality Control and Damage-Resistant Packaging

Published by: Northland - November 23, 2016

Choosing new contract furniture can be a serious investment that requires a lot of thought, consideration and research. Once you’ve selected a contract furniture manufacturer, there’s more to consider than just design. After your order is placed, quality control and shipping must also be at the forefront of your decision. Northland stands for quality, from the design phase all the way through to the furniture’s arrival at your facility.

Contract Furniture Quality Control

Quality control reigns as one of the most important steps in the contract furniture manufacturing process. After the furniture has been custom crafted for your order, Northland takes special consideration in the quality control phase of your project.

At Northland, our quality control department follows a strict process for evaluating and ensuring your order is checked and approved before it leaves our Bend, Oregon, facility. We check every piece of furniture to ensure quality. We also take quality to another level with damage-resistant packing materials.

Damage-Resistant Packaging

When purchasing contract furniture from other manufacturers, it’s possible your order can get damaged in the shipping process. While other companies use cardboard boxes and other materials that don’t protect furniture, Northland uses soft, damage-resistant packaging that helps conserve the quality of the pieces as they leave our facility.

Why does damage-resistant packaging matter? Think of it this way – when you’re moving from one home to another, you cover important furniture with blankets and soft packing materials in order to protect these pieces during the transportation phase of your move. Northland uses that same ideology when it comes to shipping our furniture. In order to maintain the high standard of quality of our contract furniture when it arrives at your facility as when it left ours, soft, damage-resistant packaging makes all the difference.

When it comes to your next contract furniture investment, be sure to consider more than just price and design. Quality control and shipping should also factor into your decision. Choose a contract furniture manufacturer that places a high priority on quality – from the design and manufacturing phase all the way through to shipping and installation. Contact Northland for more information about high-quality contract furniture and our damage-resistant packing options.

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