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The Advantages of Street Furniture That You Should Consider

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Believe it or not, street furniture is more important than ever in commercial environments and plays a much more significant role than acting as an aesthetic enhancement. Apparent benefits of integrating street furniture into commercial places add style and functionality to the immediate environment. By adding benches, picnic seating, planters, litter bins, recycling bins, and cycling shelters, organizations add value to their existing building by providing additional amenities to their employees and visitors. They also act as an essential amenity for pedestrians by adding functionality and vitality to the pedestrian realm. They announce that pedestrians are welcome and that the street is a comfortable place to be. These amenities provide functional service to the pedestrian and provide visual detail and interest. Now we have understood the role of Street furniture; now we will try to understand it uses: Round Iroko 8 Seater Picnic Bench It Serves Practical Purposes – Mostly, people a

Street furniture for the reopening of outdoor hospitality

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Eating out is taking on a whole new meaning. While the reopening of restaurants and cafes is eagerly anticipated, for now at least drinking and dining at hospitality venues is only allowed outdoors. From April 12, pubs, coffee shops and bistros can welcome back customers after the nation went into lockdown at the start of 2021. But under the easing of restrictions, there are still strict guidelines to follow. For a country with a very changeable climate, al fresco dining can be a challenge. But at Broxap we’ve developed a wide range of quality outdoor furniture and shelters to cater for the changing needs of hospitality businesses. What are the rules for outdoor dining? Guidance issued by the UK Government to the likes of restaurants and tea rooms stipulates that until May 17 at the earliest, customers are only allowed indoors to walk to the outdoor seating area; use bathroom facilities; or make a payment. Customers must be seated at a table to order, be served and consume their food a

What is Street Furniture?

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Street furniture is a collection of items which colour the landscape of the streets and squares. Residing in our towns and cities, on our roadsides, in parks, as well as around our schools and businesses, street furniture really is a massive part of our everyday landscape. Individual pieces offer a range of practical, social and environmental functions, dividing themselves into three broad sections:  1.The Highways: Including:  Bollards Traffic signals Shelters Street lighting 2.Public Utilities: Including:  Litter bins Bollards Seating Drinking fountains 3.Communication: Including:  Post-boxes, Sign-postage, Telephone kiosk/box Street Furniture: A History Throughout the decades street furniture has changed continuously. Often, street design evolves as a response to modern progression. However, other times it encompasses the factor of economy and not that of aesthetic design.   Bollards: The first "street furniture" landmark was the ‘Maritime Bollard.' It was the next des

What is Park Furniture?

Park furniture is an important landscape element. It is used together with trees to beautify a park. Nowadays outdoor furniture is just not metal or wood furniture placed in park. There are some guidelines to apply when you want some attractive park furniture. Ideal park furniture increases the appeal of the park it also blends in perfectly with the environment. There are some criteria that can be used when getting the best park furniture. The firsts and most obvious one is the cost. This will apply to individual and governments as a whole. This is the basic requirement and some cities will tend to award tenders for supply of park furniture to the lowest bidders. Low prices always compromise on quality and design. Another criteria used in park or street furniture is the outdoor aesthetic. It's essential that park furnishings meets the architectural composition of the landscape. It's not nice to have benches that dot blend in a park. This consideration should be considered wh

Bespoke Furniture: All You Need To Know

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Designing your very own, custom made furniture can come across as a daunting task; however this does not necessarily have to be the case. Bespoke designs are an effective solution to being unable to find what you want from high street retailers. Although costly, bespoke furniture is custom made furniture produced at the highest of standards. Companies are experts in transforming a simple, basic idea in to a real life product. As bespoke designs are custom made, they are made to measure, making furniture accessible in any area. It is important to consider details such as weather the piece of furniture would require fixtures and fittings or whether it will be free standing as such factors would need to be accommodated for. If it is something which you may consider moving around at a later date, it would be wise to have the piece of furniture built for freestanding use. Will the item need to adapt to different surroundings? It is important to consider whether you will be renovati

The Benefits of Public Furniture

If you are purchasing public furniture such as litter bins, bollards, public seating or any other type of urban furniture, why should you go the additional mile and procure high quality bespoke street furniture? Although many organization will be price driven when purchasing street furniture, there are some excellent reasons why spending that little bit more and going the bespoke route can be far more effective. Let us consider street benches for a moment, everyone is familiar with the boring vanilla variety, we see them everywhere, stark and functional public seating that is far from pleasing on the eye. By spending just a little more it is possible to procure public realm furniture that is not only functional, but also aesthetically pleasing. Instead of supplying bland, unattractive public furniture it becomes possible to decorate the public space with stimulating urban furniture. By combining high quality bespoke public furniture with café screens and other effective items of p

Innovative Public Furniture Uses In Living And Working Today

Outdoor street furniture has many qualities that make it very usable in today's world. On top of its obvious aesthetic appeal, public furniture is also very practical. Its inherent sturdiness and resilience make it ideal for use in any area where large crowds of people need to gather for any reason. It is also easy to clean and long lasting and this makes it very cost effective for both short and long term use. Given these parameters, park furniture would be an excellent addition to any of these areas of work: Educational institutions - since many educational institutions are old and see vast populations going through their facilities every year, they need to provide for suitable facilities for recreation for their many students when not within the lecture halls. These relaxation facilities need to be robust to handle rough student treatment and also easy to clean to ensure that contagious diseases are not carried through them. Public furniture is ideal for these surroundings be