Best Bed Bug Defense for Group Living
Bed bugs have increasingly become a concern for group living environments. So, let’s break those management methods down: Get The Metal Bedroom Furniture Catalog Bed bugs can cause your organization plenty of headaches. Investing in bed bug resistant furniture is a big step toward fighting off these pests and keeping you rooms safe. Create your own Furniture Concepts Wish List today…
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Patient Populations With Incontinence
Furniture offers a surprising number of ways to help staff manage patient or consumer incontinence with dignity. Once an expensive, disposable item after incontinence accidents, seating is now an effective tool in fluid management. N7A range of options have been developed by dedicated furniture manufacturers in partnership with experts in senior living, developmental disability care, and limited mobility…
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An Interior Designer’s Guide to Healthcare Furniture
Recently I was talking to an interior designer who took her first healthcare design job. This particular interior designer had a lot of residential experience but when I asked her about selecting contract-grade furniture, she was totally unaware that there was furniture designed for non-residential applications. While the elements of good residential interior design might translate…
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What is Contract Furniture | Group Living Facilities
Contract Furniture designed for heavy use environments like health care, higher ed, camp & conference centers, and other group living facilities must perform to standards that far exceed residential furniture standards. While the sofas and chairs you see in commercial use facilities might look similar to what you see in a typical residential home, what’s “under the hood” is…
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Room Design for Addiction Recovery
Room Design for Addiction Recovery Posted by Janet Voigt on Wed, May 30, 2018 @ 09:56 PM First impressions when patients enter an addiction treatment facility really sets the stage for recovery. Good room design puts patients at ease and allows them to willingly enter treatment. So, what constitutes good room design in a healing environment? Facilities…
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Why Contract Furniture?
Maybe you’re new in this field or maybe you’ve been working in it for years but this is the first time you’ve been tasked with ordering new furniture for your facility. No big deal, everyone has bought furniture before—you go online or you go to the store, you pick out what you want, maybe from…
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Which Bunk is Right for Your camp? Wood or Metal?
Bunkbeds and summer camp are natural companions – like peanut butter and jelly! With a variety of metal and wood bunks available, which is right for your camp? Let’s look at what they have in common and what sets them apart. Wood is traditional. Wood bunks are warm and inviting. For many parents, wood bunks evoke nostalgia from…
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How to Clean Upholstered Furniture From Incontinence or Any Stain
Worried about upholstered furniture Clean-up? Start with Your Fabric and Furniture Choice. Crypton© is a remarkable fabric technology that adds a fluid and dirt barrier. Because Crypton© is applied in a submersion technique, the barrier is applied to the top and bottom of the material as well as within the fiber weave itself. Unlike other stain barriers…
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Back to Basics in Heavy Duty Furniture
Any administrator managing a group living or special needs facility knows that heavy duty furniture is not only important for comfort, but furniture also links consumers and residents to their concept of home. Contract lounge furniture and contract bedroom furniture is a must in facilities where heavy use is expected. Contract furniture combines the look and feel of residential style furniture…
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Replacement Cushions: A Small Investment That Can Pay Off Big.
It can be tricky to balance needs for new furniture cushions and budget concerns. group living facilities and summer camps have to deal with this issue every year in order to keep their facilities and camps up to snuff for discerning clients/parents. Replace Chair and Couch Cushions: Cushions on wood frame seating can start to look pretty dingy after…
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