Lab Furnishings

Overview

HeatSync Labs's headquarters is located in downtown Mesa, which looks overly Leave-it-to-Beaver. HeatSync Labs is full of futurists who fantasize about living on the Enterprise, so our look and feel inside the lab will be different. Most hackerspaces, unfortunately, end up with a "garage sale" look in contrast with the modern Ikea look that most co-working spaces have, including the one we've hosted events in for over a year. We should aim for a uniform base of wall colors/layout and basic furniture and leave whatever items rest on it in aesthetic freedom.

Our colors are a base of graphite gray and cloud gray with industrial orange and sunshine yellow for complementary colors. Walls should be combinations of the grays, with the possibility of some orange accenting. Furniture can be any combination of the aforementioned colors, and black. We have a hardwood floor and wood furnishings of the same beech wood color. Wooden furnishings should ideally be somewhat close to this. No mahogany nonsense. We're not a lawyer's office. Metallic elements will likely be shown off in machinery, so having shiny metal in furniture is great, but non-grey metals (brass, etc) should be avoided.

Proposed furniture

Commons tables: Ikea Vika Byske table top (beech wood) + Vika Lilleby Trestle legs (black) (rated to 110 lbs, sturdier than single legs).

NOTE: Ikea Tempe is fresh out of the Byske table tops, but the next size down is only two inches shorter, so its not a bad second choice.

Private work desk ($300/mo estimated pricing): Galant combination desk with drawer (beech wood)

Commons chairs: RICKARD swivel chair (gray/black) or SNILLE (black)

NOTE: Stock Ikea casters are designed for soft Swedish floors and not hard Arizona dead tree floors. Use PARAGRAF casters to prevent floor damage and ensure fast chair racing.

NOTE: The casters built into RICKARD chairs work well on hard surfaces as-is, so if we choose those, we won't need to buy different casters. Also, the SNILLE chairs aren't ideal for butts larger than David's.

HSL Library Bookshelf: BESTÅ shelf unit (beech wood) (stronger construction than the Billy shelves everyone has)

Obligatory Sofa: Target Orange Sofa