Recently we were brought in by Bookrenter.com to help set up and brand their office interior. We were excited when we saw their mascot is a cartoon "Tiki" man with text books on his spear!

We proceeded to make them a Tiki reception desk, with books on spears of course...

The reception desk is a typical two-level design, with a hardwood bar top surface, with thatch and bamboo detailing. The desk is complete with enormous bamboo foot rail and natural rope lashing!

For individual desks in this office, we helped Bookrenter.com keep an open office configuration, by creating desks that have these cool daisy-chaining power units in the underside. This allows the desks to be in free form rows up to 8 desks away from a wall mounted power source. You can even 'hot swap' them from place to place!

The desks have a nice ergonomic curve to them, adjustable sit/stand height legs, cord management holes on the top, and cord management trays underneath.

To keep with the Tiki theme, we also created 'tiki' rolling white / pin-up boards.

The rolling white boards preform double duty as privacy and sound barriers in the open floor plan. This works great with the flexible power desks in that they can reorganize their teams quickly at will.

Vinyl decals decorate all the interior windows, carrying the fun Tiki theme throughout the office. It also adds more privacy and division to the windowed meeting rooms and offices.

One of the best things about working for Because We Can is that we get to meet great people at great companies all the time. Most recently, we have been introduced to the wonderful company Bookrenter, who rents books to college students, saving them tons of money. What a great idea! Their website has a Tiki / tropical paradise / Polynesian Pop theme to it. So in helping them out with their office, we thought we should carry that theme through. Thus, the birth of the Tiki white board.... A staple in every Tiki themed office! A white board on one side, and a pin board and sound wall on the other. Covered in a fun decorative thatch, on red and white locking swivel wheels. The base of the Rolling white board is at an angle such that one can arrange these in any number of configurations up to a 90 degree turn. And the tray for markers and erasers is functional, and filled with cool wood joinery details. The thatch on either side is sprayed with a on-toxic fire retardant, to help prevent the wrath of the Fire Marshall gods... These can be used as partitions between desks, or just as rolling white boards within the office. This is the first round of Tiki-themed elements, there is much more to come!