Flow Office

Flow Office: office design and fit-out from Birmingham across the UK

Flow Office Furniture & Interiors is an office design and fit-out company based in Birmingham. Its team describes a single process running from listening to a client's needs through planning, building and installing a commercial interior, with the stated aim of delivering on time and on budget. The company presents itself as a Birmingham office design team whose fit-outs are carried out throughout the United Kingdom.

The practice addresses landlords, tenants and property managers, and frames its work around two goals: impressing clients and raising productivity. It offers a free design consultation as the entry point to a project.

Design, fit-out and furniture under one roof

The service list is organised around four main areas:

• 3D space planning: the company uses 3D office design software so clients can view a future workspace virtually and understand how design decisions translate into the finished space.
• Office design and fit-out: creation and transformation of office spaces, with the fit-out process presented as smooth and stress-free.
• Office interiors: interior work aimed at staff well-being, retention and productivity, developed in close collaboration with the client.
• Office furniture: layouts designed with CAD technology, with furniture placement intended to optimise productivity.

Alongside these, the site lists commercial office refurbishment, office wellbeing consultancy and BREEAM consultancy, and mentions commercial specialists in Warwickshire and office fit-out in Bristol among its service pages.

How a project is run

Flow Office describes a four-stage method: a dedicated project manager is assigned, a CAD drawing is produced, the new office space is built and installed, and handover takes place after client approval with an aftercare service. The aftercare includes returning to the renovated office to set up desks and chairs so teams find their workplace ready on arrival.

Finance options are also part of the offer: the company says it can look for financing arrangements suited to a client's budget.

Case studies and client base

The company states it has planned, designed and delivered office design and fit-out projects across the UK. Among the case studies it publishes are Gallagher Security in Warwick, Horiba Mira in Nuneaton and Fairway Homecare in Birmingham. One client account describes a Welcome Centre fit-out replacing outdated security gatehouses at a Tech Park, with a back-of-house area for the security team and a front-of-house reception and visitor seating.

Another account covers a complete furniture fit-out of a refurbished office in Birmingham city centre, including help with furniture and colour schemes, furniture delivered fully assembled and an installation team that set everything up quickly. A further account mentions out-of-hours installation and a session in which staff were shown individually how to set up their chairs.

Environmental commitments

Flow Office states a commitment to UK manufacturers as a way of reducing a project's carbon footprint while supporting local businesses. It also works with Tree-V, a company established in 2021 that balances vehicle emissions by planting trees and protecting forestry, and which reports having balanced over 6.5 million miles to date. Through this arrangement, Flow's customers can add the logistics portion of working with Flow to their ESG reports and receive a certificate for their green credentials.

Workplace research cited by the company

The site cites survey findings to support its approach to workspace design: that 58% of high-performing employees want quiet workspaces (attributed to a CNBC survey), that 81% of applicants would reject a job placement if they dislike the workspace (BCO), and that 97% of workers consider the workforce a symbol of whether employees are valued (BCO).

At the time of writing this profile, the site displayed a rating based on 17 Google reviews, with individual comments from clients and partners in the fit-out and furniture trade.