Hey all, Office Nomads chiming in. Similarly to others, we've got a set of lockers that are never locked. :) Classic. People asked for them a ton when we first opened, and we got them (also cheap from a reuse store in Seattle), and then mostly they got ignored. Every once and a while someone uses one for a couple of days, but more than anything else I think they make people feel more comfortable. They're there if they need them, even if they don't...
For our residents, we provide a small locking rolling cabinet that they can use. That has shown to be a great value to members - we hear more and more from them that the cabinets were part of what got them excited to be a resident. They get to leave their stuff here and feel more at home. We found ours online for relatively cheap, but they were still a pretty significant cost as far as buying stuff goes. But definitely worthwhile. Ours are 3 drawers, locking, and roll across the floor. Pretty simple. Good luck! Susan On Dec 13, 5:01 pm, Muskie <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing I've found is people want everything and they want to pay > little or nothing. cowork...@bob is getting looked at and one thing > people comment on is we have a lot of space. This is because we're in > the inner-city, Chinatown, and we have good relations with our > landlord who gets what we're about. > > So even before we buy lockers we have a loading bay, litterally big > enough to park a truck in, we're using this for bike storage and for > events we'll probably move some unneeded furniture back and forth, we > plan to get some stackable chairs so you can do sort of a speaker and > audience type set up in the main room. > > Then in our eating area we have a wall of cubbies as people seem to > call them, then someone asked for lockable filing so I carried one of > our spare filing cabinets downstairs, we also have 7 or 8 big desks > which have lockable drawers and filing. We then have tables, chairs, > a couch, a bay window. Like I said we have space. > > I'm now thinking of charging say 5 bucks a month for a lockable > drawer, 10 bucks for a gym locker which we will buy off craigslist and > place on the wall opposite the cubbies, and of course maybe 15 or 20 > for a dedicated filing cabinet which certain organizations who may > call us home seem to want. The desks have room for files, but by > cubic volume will come out smaller than the lockers or the cabinet > perhaps. > > We're not doing dedicated desks, we want things to be nice and clean, > so we don't want people leaving stuff on "their" desk. In the eating > area is also this Ikea side table I assembled it has several drawers > and shelves too. Then there is more storage elsewhere on the main > floor, such as the loading bay, some people just seem to want > something they can lock and call their own and we're not going to turn > those people away. But we've drawn the lines at private desks, it is > first come first served on the biggest nicest desks on a daily basis. > We hope that by offering a variey of seating options from casual to > formal, from off in the corner by yourself to sitting on a couch with > some blogger people will find a comfortable and productive spot at > cowork...@bob. > > Cheers, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
