Better office furniture for less
We believe that workspaces can and should be attractive, sustainable and cost less. Rype Office exists to make this easy for customers. We provide high quality, better value, more sustainable office furniture as well as free office design assistance.
REFRESHED
We refurbish or remodel your current office furniture at 20% to 30% of the cost of new
REMADE
We remanufacture quality brand name office furniture to as-new condition, saving you over 50% on the list price
NEW
We access surplus stock that would otherwise go to waste and new furniture at wholesale prices from sustainable manufacturers
Combine all three for a beautiful, budget-friendly office – our free office design service can create an inspiring workplace that improves productivity and minimises your footprint.
Recent projects
How we help
- We start with your needs, budget & existing office furniture
- Design assistance to create a beautiful, productive, space-efficient & sustainable workplace
- OR to develop a program to refresh/replace worn items with minimal disruption
- Source and remake/refresh furniture
- Deliver and install
- Quantify sustainability benefits
- Offer to buy-back your furniture when you no longer need it
Quality
We apply 7 layers of quality in our work:
- Selecting good condition, brand-name furniture for refreshing/remaking with timeless aesthetics, durable components and great ergonomics like Vitra, Orangebox and Senator
- Using materials from leading suppliers like Camira, Egger and Kronospan
- Using the latest precision equipment for flawless finishes
- Developing new eco-friendly techniques to restore surfaces
- Applying rigorous processes including testing and inspection
- Grading to strict A+, A and B standards to meet customer needs and budgets
- Warranting our parts and workmanship
We are so confident in the quality of our furniture we offer to buy it back when you no longer need it.
See the quality of our remade furniture for yourself:
Remade is good
Remaking (or remanufacturing) takes long-life elements from a used item (e.g. metal frames), checks & resurfaces them, and then rebuilds the piece around them. The result looks and performs as-new, but at a significant cost saving (both economically and environmentally).
Kyocera, Ricoh, Fuji and Xerox remanufacture their photocopiers. Caterpillar’s remanufactured engines are trusted by mining companies and armies.
£ savings
- Avoided raw material mining, processing & transport costs
- Avoided disposal costs
- Longer lifetime
More sustainable
- Reduced waste & landfill
- Lower greenhouse gas emissions
- No mining environmental damage
- UK jobs
Customised
- Resize desks to reduce your floor area
- Your preferred colours, fabrics, patterns, shapes & sizes
- Match to existing furniture
We use traditional craftsmanship and modern technology
Not so pretty when we receive them – scratched and scuffed in out-of-date colours
Torn and worn fabric
We use traditional upholstery craftsmanship combined with modern precision equipment
Recoated and reupholstered – ready for another 15 years
Awards
2017 Cummins Environmental Gateway Winner
2014 RBS Innovation Gateway Award Winner
2015 BusinessGreen Technology Awards Highly Commended
2015 UK Green Building Council Innovation Matchmaking Presenter
Media coverage
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What is remanufactured office furniture?
Remanufactured office furniture offers as-new quality at a lower price
About us
We create beautiful, high quality offices at a lower cost, with less environmental impact.
Cost savings come from:
Using high quality unwanted furniture. Just as Airbnb and Uber identified wasted resources (underutilised rooms and vehicles) and made it easy for customers to access them and save, we are accessing unwanted office furniture and helping customers to use it to create wonderful workspaces with big savings.
No middlemen. By selling direct to customers we eliminate margins traditionally paid to wholesalers, retailers and interior designers.
Rype Office was developed by the team at Lavery/Pennell to address the ridiculously high prices, shocking waste and awful offices which were standard practice for the industry.
We are based in London, serving the UK. In coming years we would like to grow internationally.
Contact us
Together we can create attractive offices that are more sustainable and cost less
Phone or Email
If you are thinking about office design or office furniture, please call 033 3358 3330, email contact@RypeOffice.com or use the form below