Reception Desks
A reception desk is the first thing a visitor sees, and it also has to suit whoever is stationed at it from open to close. We design and build front counters at our Huskisson workshop and install them in Canberra offices and consulting suites. The desk is prefabricated in sections that fit the lift and the door, delivered finished, and assembled on site inside whatever window the building allows. Heights, cabling, storage and the privacy line are all settled on the drawing before anything is machined.
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A counter has a public face and a working face, and they are almost never the same height. We set the working surface to the chair and the screens, the public counter to a comfortable leaning height, and include a lower section of bench so a visitor who cannot use a standing counter is served at the same desk rather than sent somewhere else.
A screen that can be read from the visitor side is a problem in any professional office. We set the modesty panel and the counter return so the screen and the desk surface sit out of the sightline, put lockable storage where the passes and the keys go, and run power and data up through the desk rather than across the floor. All of that is drawn before the desk is machined, not cut into a panel afterwards.
Made to order means the desk suits the space and the way the room is used, rather than the room being arranged around a unit somebody else sized. Shape, length, materials and detailing are all yours to choose. Where the office is leased, we build counters that fix back to the floor and the wall in a way that can be undone, and note the make good position on the drawing so nobody has to argue about it later.
Because the workshop is on the South Coast, a Canberra counter is built complete and travels finished. Nothing gets fabricated in a corridor. We take the site dimensions, the floor level, the power and data positions and the access route on one visit, then break the desk into sections that will pass the lift and go back together quickly on site. The install is booked into the after hours window the building allows and finished in one go, which is what a working reception area needs rather than a week of noise beside the front door.
Our reception desks and commercial joinery pages cover the same counters across the region.
Built complete, delivered finished, assembled in a single visit.