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A Timeless Trend: Wood
Whether in retail, restaurants and hospitality, or any kind of commercial space, wood accents will create the inviting atmosphere you want. Even if they’re working in a space in the middle of an urban jungle and miles away from the nearest hiking trail, commercial...
Raising the Rooftop Dining Experience
Want to take your restaurant design to the next level? Look into the latest trend of rooftop dining. Thanks to the pandemic, the restaurant industry will never look at outdoor dining the same way again. It’s now not a bonus to have outdoor dining space, but a...
Why Natural Lighting is Taking Over Retail Design
In retail design, you want your store to be lit as beautifully as possible. One of the biggest trends in retail design is harnessing natural light to do that for you. A major mistake in retail design is focusing entirely on layout and displays, and then fitting in...
How to Bring Mismatched Dining Furniture Into Your Restaurant Design
It might seem like a mistake at first, but mixing and matching furniture pieces can help your diners feel right at home. The premise sounds romantic, doesn’t it? Over a span of years, you stop at every antique market, yard sale, or curbside dump and slowly build up a...
Small Shop, Big Potential: The Pop-Up Retail Trend
By design, pop-up shops are meant to have short lifespans. But 2021 is proving this is a long-lasting trend in the retail industry. What retail trend capitalizes on all the following major themes of the last few years: social media-driven marketing and sales, digital...
How to Make Your Shop a Home
Achieving a homey, comfortable atmosphere for your retail customers is easier than you think. Here’s how. When you work in retail, it might feel like your store is a second home (if you’re an owner, you might even spend more time there than you do your actual home)....
Less is More: Why Minimalistic Merchandising is the Top Trend of 2021 Retail
For the ultimate post-pandemic in-store shopper experience, retailers are going for sophistication and elegance over overflowing shelves. In 2020, there was one major retail trend. You guessed it – online! Shoppers had to browse with a scroll of a mouse instead of...
On the Cutting Edge: The Tools We Love at RFP
When it comes to furniture fabrication, it’s our mandate to combine the latest technology with the timeless care of handmade details. Here’s how we do it. Humans have been creating quality pieces of furniture for as long as manufacturing has existed – long before the...
What is the Sit Test, and Why Do We Do It?
It may be our favourite part of the furniture fabrication process (our clients’ too). What makes the sit test so special? You wouldn’t buy a pair of shoes without trying them on first, right? When it comes to an item that needs to be long lasting and well-used, it’s...
Standard Heights for Tables and Seating: Where Do You Stand?
A common reason for getting dining pieces custom made together is to get a perfect match between a table and seats. But how do standard heights in furniture design really measure up? You know the saying – “Measure twice, cut once.” That speaks to the need to review,...
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