Furniture · Common Areas

The Best Room in the Building.

Café tables, stools, banquettes, and the common areas people actually choose. Planned, quoted, delivered, and installed with the rest of the project.

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Layout & Height Mix Finish & Durability Spec Delivery & Installation

Common Ground

Nobody books it. Everybody uses it.

The breakroom is the one room in the building people visit by choice, several times a day, in every department. It hosts lunch, the all-hands overflow, the interview coffee, and half the real decisions.

Furnish it like it matters: a mix of heights, surfaces that shrug off coffee, and enough seats that nobody eats at their desk out of defeat.

Large café space with round bar and stool seating — Café seating at scale · Artopex

More Than Lunch

One room, five shifts a day.

Breakrooms

Tables that wipe down, chairs that stack, and a layout that clears for the birthday cake.

Café & Coffee Bars

Bar-height counters and stools that make the coffee machine a destination.

Banquette Dining

Booth seating that seats more people per square foot than tables ever will.

All-Hands Overflow

The second room every town hall needs, furnished to absorb the crowd.

Work-Anywhere Seats

Café tables double as touchdown space between meetings. Power helps.

Campus & Amenity Dining

Education and multi-family common areas built for volume and turnover.

Just topping up seats? The store ships stools and tables direct.

Standing-height community tables with wood stools — Standing-height community tables · OFS

The Line Items

Cafés are quoted by the seat, not the table.

The room prices on capacity, durability, and how much of it is built in place. These are the levers.

Seat count & turnoverPeak lunch capacity sets quantities. Everything else scales from there.

Height mixTable, counter, and bar height in one room changes both the feel and the number.

Banquette constructionModular systems install like furniture. True custom moves toward millwork pricing.

Surface durabilityLaminate, solid surface, or wood. Coffee, cleaners, and chair backs decide.

Seating specStacking chairs to upholstered stools is a wide range, graded to daily abuse.

Power & cleaning accessOutlets where people linger, and furniture that moves when the floor gets cleaned.

Coordination with caseworkCounters, cabinetry, and appliances often ride the same project. One schedule beats three.

Freight & assemblyHigh quantities of small items. Receiving, assembly, and packaging removal add up.

Opening Day Plan

Five steps between empty room and busy room.

One team owns the room end to end, with a single point of contact until the last stool is level.

The Head Count

Peak capacity, meal patterns, and what the room hosts besides lunch.

Measure the Room

Dimensions, power, plumbing walls, and the path the furniture takes in.

Layout & Spec

Height mix, banquettes, finishes, and quantities drawn to the room.

Quote & Approval

One complete quote: product, freight, and installation, lead times stated plainly.

Install & Open

Assembled, placed, leveled, and cleared of packaging before the first coffee.

Before You Pick Finishes

What separates used rooms from photographed ones.

Vary the heights

A room of identical four-tops reads as a cafeteria. Bar, counter, and table height in one plan gives people a choice, and choice is why they come.

The banquette question

Booths seat more people in less space and people love them. Decide early whether yours are modular furniture or built-in millwork, because the budgets differ.

Spec for the dishwasher years

This room takes more daily abuse than any office. Surfaces and seating should be chosen for year eight, not the opening photo.

Power where people linger

Half the room is working over coffee. Outlets at banquettes and counters turn the café into usable workspace between rushes.

Over Coffee

Common Areas FAQ

Are banquettes custom?+

They can be, but they don't have to be. Manufacturers build modular banquette systems that install like furniture. True custom moves the work toward millwork, and we quote both honestly.

Bar height, counter height, or table height?+

Mix them. Height variety is what makes a café read as a choice instead of a cafeteria. We plan the mix to the room and the crowd.

What finishes survive coffee and lunch?+

Laminates, solid surface, and metal bases do the heavy lifting. Upholstery gets specified cleanable. We'll tell you where wood is worth it and where it isn't.

Do you install?+

Yes, on any order. Tables arrive in parts, banquettes need placement and leveling. Our crews handle it and haul the packaging out.

Can we buy café furniture from the store?+

Yes. The store ships stools and tables direct. The project team makes sense when the room is getting rebuilt: banquettes, quantities, power, and layout together.

Can the breakroom ride the same quote as the rest of the project?+

Yes. Common areas usually land last in a project, so we sequence them on the same schedule and the room opens with everything else.

Loft common area with curved banquettes and slat screens

Make Room

Give people a reason to stay.

Room dimensions, photos, or a headcount at peak lunch. Supporting projects nationwide.

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Photography courtesy of Parlor City Furniture manufacturer partners: Artopex · OFS.

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The Best Room in the Building.

Nobody books it. Everybody uses it.