Better office furniture for less
We believe that all workspaces can and should be attractive, sustainable and cost less. Rype Office makes this easy by providing 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 award-winning free office design service can create an inspiring workplace that improves productivity and minimises your footprint.
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 worn items with minimal disruption
- Source & remake/refresh furniture
- Deliver & install
- Quantify sustainability benefits
- Buy-back your furniture when you no longer need it
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
- Lower up front cost
- Avoided disposal costs
- Longer lifetime
More sustainable
- Reduced waste & landfill
- Lower greenhouse gas emissions
- BREEAM & LEED credits
- UK jobs
Customised
- Resize desks to reduce your floor area
- Your preferred colours, fabrics, patterns, shapes & sizes
- Match to existing furniture
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Not so pretty when we receive them – scratched and scuffed in out-of-date colours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
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:



Awards

2017 International Award for Environmental Best Practice

2017 Adeiladu Arbenigrwydd Gwobrau Enillydd

2017 Cummins Environmental Gateway Winner

2017 Sustain Wales Award

2015 BusinessGreen Technology Awards Highly Commended

2014 RBS Innovation Gateway Award Winner
Media coverage

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About us
We believe that every workspace can and should be beautiful, sustainable and lower cost. Rype Office exists to make this easy for customers.
We know that sustainability creates substantial business benefits for us too, so we work towards the inherent full sustainability potential of each activity that we do.
For example:
- We reuse, repair and remanufacture furniture, which has a lower environmental footprint than recycling, waste to energy (i.e. burning) and landfilling. This also reduces our costs and allows us to price so that customers can afford high quality furniture.
- Remanufacturing furniture is ideal work for those facing the greatest barriers to employment. So for large projects where a meaningful period of employment can be provided, Rype Office takes on disadvantaged staff. Eight long term unemployed with disabilities were engaged for a three month project in Wales, creating an employment pathway that resulted in three of these staff finding full time positions at the end of the project. This also moderates our labour costs and helps us to win projects through the Community Benefits that we generate.
- For reclaimed carpet tiles, Rype Office has partnered with Greenstream Flooring, a social enterprise creating vocational training for long term unemployed in impoverished Welsh valleys and with a mission to provide flooring to low income households. Reclaimed carpet tiles cost less than new, improving margins and affordability for customers.
- For the box frames in sofas which need to be made new, Rype Office sources from the Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind, channelling expenditure to aid those with disabilities while increasing the profile of MTIB through Rype Office’s marketing activities.
Currently serving the UK from our base in London, we hope to grow internationally to profitably create positive impacts in other countries.
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
Visit our Showroom
Unit 10, Space Business Park, Abbey Road, Park Royal, London NW10 7SU
Viewings by appointment