Office & shop interiors
We fit out your office or shop in phases, work nights and weekends where needed, and clear the site every evening. Your team keeps working and your shutters keep opening.
In a home, if the carpentry runs a week late, the family is inconvenienced. In an office or a shop, every extra day costs you money. Staff cannot work, customers walk past a closed shutter, and your landlord still charges the same rent.
So we plan commercial projects backwards from that. Which area gets done first so a team can keep sitting somewhere. What has to happen after 8pm. Which work makes dust and therefore has to be sealed off or done on a Sunday. It goes into a written schedule before we start, not decided on the morning it comes up.
Units are made to your measurements and brought in finished, which is what makes this possible. Most of the noisy, dusty work never happens at your premises at all.
Unit types
Most office quotes are a list of items with no explanation. Here is what each one is, what size it usually is, and what decides the cost.
The desks your team sits at, built as a connected run rather than separate tables. Linear rows suit a long floor plate, clusters of four or six suit teams that talk to each other all day, and L-shaped desks suit roles that need two screens and paperwork at once. Every desk gets a wire manager, a raceway under the top and a power and data point at the desk, not at the wall.
Enclosed rooms for managers and directors, made with glass or solid partitions. Full-height glass keeps the floor feeling open and is what most startups choose. Frosted film or a lower solid section gives privacy where the conversations are sensitive. Each cabin gets a desk, storage and usually two visitor chairs.
The first thing a client sees, so this is where a fit-out earns its money. We build a two-level counter, higher at the front for the visitor and lower on the working side, with storage and cable management underneath. The branded wall behind it carries your logo, usually backlit or in acrylic letters.
Built to the room rather than bought off a shelf, so you get the right seat count without crowding the walkway. We build in cable routing and a flip-box for power and HDMI, and mount the screen with the cables inside the wall, not taped down the back of it.
File cabinets, personal lockers, stationery units and under-desk pedestals. Every unit that holds anything personal gets a lock, and shelf spacing is set to what you actually store, whether that is box files, sample products or server spares.
A working counter with a sink, storage below, and points for the fridge, microwave, coffee machine and water purifier. Built the same way as a kitchen, because it takes the same daily abuse from water and heat.
Glass for openness, aluminium-framed panels for speed, and acoustic panelling where the floor echoes. Open offices with hard flooring and a bare ceiling get loud fast, and fabric panels or carpet tile fix it far more cheaply than rebuilding the layout later.
Shop unit types
Built to your product, not to a standard shelf height. Clothing needs hanging rails and folded stacks, electronics need lockable glass and a power point at each shelf, and grocery needs depth and weight capacity. Shelf spacing is set to your tallest regular product with a little room to spare.
The busiest surface in the shop. Built at standing height with a lower section for the POS machine, a lockable cash drawer, storage for bags and rolls, and cable management so the card machine and printer are not sitting in a tangle.
For jewellery, mobiles, watches and anything small and valuable. Toughened glass top and front, lockable sliding access from the staff side, and internal lighting so the product is lit from inside rather than by the ceiling light.
Often rushed, and it shows in returns. A proper trial room has a full-length mirror set slightly away from the wall, warm lighting from the front rather than overhead, a bench or hook, and a door or curtain that actually closes. Lighting from above alone throws shadows and makes fabric colours read wrong.
Backlit acrylic boards, ACP cladding and glass shopfronts. This is what pulls someone in from the road, so we plan the sign size to how far away people see it from, and keep the lighting even so half the board is not brighter than the other half.
Full-height racking so the room holds what it should, with the fast-moving stock at waist height and the slow stock above. Unglamorous and always the first thing cut from a budget, then always the first thing regretted.
Who we work with
How we work around your business
We split the floor into zones and finish one at a time, so there is always somewhere for your team to sit or your customers to stand.
Drilling, core cutting and anything loud gets scheduled outside your working hours.
Cutting, edge banding and finishing all happen before we arrive. Units come ready to fix, so the dust and noise stay away from your floor.
Work zones are sealed off with sheeting and the site is cleared every evening. Your team should not arrive to find sawdust on their keyboards.
A single person accountable to you, who coordinates with your building management for lift access, work permissions and timings, and gives you a straight answer on where things stand.
Materials
A home wardrobe gets opened a few times a day. An office drawer gets opened forty times a day by different people, and a shop counter takes knocks from morning to close. So the spec is different.
BWP or BWR grade plywood rather than particle board, because commercial furniture gets moved and reconfigured
High-pressure laminate on high-touch areas, which resists scratches and cleans with a wipe
MS or powder-coated metal where the load or the span needs it
Heavy-duty soft-close channels from brands such as Hettich, Hafele and Ebco, locks on every storage unit, and levelling feet for uneven floors
Toughened glass, aluminium framing or acoustic panelling depending on privacy and noise
Commercial-grade vinyl, vitrified tile or carpet tile, chosen for the traffic that area actually sees
Every material and brand is written into your quote with its grade, so your facilities team or your accountant can see exactly what was supplied.
Standard sizes
| Element | Standard size | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Desk height | 750mm | Standard seated working height for most chairs |
| Desk per person | 1200 to 1500mm wide | 1200mm works for laptop-only teams, 1500mm if there are two screens |
| Walkway between desk rows | 900 to 1200mm | Someone can walk past a seated person without them moving |
| Manager cabin | 100 to 120 sq ft | Fits a desk, storage and two visitors comfortably |
| Meeting room per seat | 600 to 700mm of table edge | Elbow room, so eight people are not touching shoulders |
| Reception counter | 1100mm front, 750mm work side | Standing visitor height in front, seated working height behind |
| Billing counter | 1050mm high | Comfortable standing height for a full shift |
| Shop aisle width | 900mm minimum, 1200mm preferred | Two customers can pass each other with bags |
| Storage unit depth | 400 to 450mm | Fits box files and lever-arch folders upright |
Lighting, ceiling and electricals
In an office the light has to be even and glare-free at desk level, warmer in the meeting rooms, and bright at reception. In a shop it is the opposite job: the light has to fall on the product, not the floor, and accent lighting is what makes a display look worth the price.
We plan the false ceiling, the light layout, the AC diffuser positions and the power and data points together as one drawing, so you do not end up with a beautiful ceiling and a cable running across it.
Price guide
Commercial work is quoted per square foot, and for offices also per seat. Here is where our projects fall.
Workstations, basic cabins, standard laminate, existing ceiling and flooring retained
New false ceiling and lighting, glass cabins, branded reception, better hardware
Acoustic treatment, premium finishes, feature reception, full flooring replacement
What moves the number: whether the space is a bare shell or an existing fit-out that has to be stripped, the number of cabins and meeting rooms, how much glass is used, acoustic requirements, flooring, and whether work is restricted to nights and weekends.
Step by step
We measure the space, note the shell condition, and ask your seat count, growth plan and working hours. Free, anywhere in Bangalore.
Seating plan, cabin positions, circulation and a 3D of reception and key areas, plus an itemised quote. 5 to 8 days.
We agree the phasing, the working hours and the handover date in writing, and coordinate work permissions and lift timings with your building management.
Units are made to your measurements while site work runs in parallel. You get progress photos and a weekly update.
Each zone is cleaned, checked with you and handed over as it finishes, so you occupy the space in stages instead of waiting for the whole floor.
Recent work
After handover
Our workmanship carries a one year warranty, and hardware carries its own brand warranty on top. Commercial furniture gets heavy use, so if a drawer channel goes or a partition needs adjusting, call and we come out.
We also take on changes after handover, which offices always need. Extra workstations when you hire, a partition moved when a team grows, or a counter altered when the layout changes. Because we made the units to your measurements, the new ones match the old ones instead of being close enough.
For offices that want it, we can arrange scheduled maintenance visits to check hardware, hinges and fittings through the year.
Not included
Anything on this list that you want handled, we will handle. It just appears as its own line in the quote rather than being buried in a per-square-foot rate.
Get a commercial quote
Your seat count and your working hours are usually enough for us to give you a rough number on the call. Send them across and we will book a free site visit at a time that suits your business.
Your enquiry goes to info@designframes.in and we reply within one working day. We never share your details with anyone.
Commercial questions
The questions that come up on almost every commercial call. Anything else, just ring us, we would rather answer it in two minutes on the phone.
Call 80958 61841Also doing your home?
A lot of our commercial clients come back for their own flat or villa. Same team, same standard.
That is usually enough for a rough number on the call. The site visit is free, and you get a layout, a 3D of your reception and a written quote within about a week.
