Furniture, carpets and lighting bought as a coordinated interior, not as four separate invoices.
WP-INT / CHATHAM / ME4 3AA
A workplace is a drawing before it is a delivery.
DICE Workplace Interiors Ltd specifies, procures and installs the furniture, lighting, carpets and storage that make an office work. We start with the floor plate, not the catalogue. Desks, task chairs, meeting tables, breakout, acoustics and the unglamorous cable tray are one programme under one named lead.
Desks, storage, screens and the hardware that has to survive a relocation two years later.
The ancillary pieces a fit-out still needs when the architect’s package stops at FF&E.
Specification, sampling and supply that does not live in a high-street unit.
01 / Brief
We are a dealership that still reads a drawing.
Most furniture companies open a PDF of products. DICE opens a floor plan. Occupancy, hybrid ratios, riser locations, the width of a goods lift and the hour the builder will actually hand us the floor — those facts decide the chair, not a mood board circulated on a Friday.
The company has been a private limited company in England and Wales since 27 March 2017. From the registered office on St Marys Island we run projects for occupiers, landlords, interior designers and project managers who need a single commercial owner from first test-fit to snagging.
We furnish new CAT B floors, refresh floors that have been lived in badly, and relocate organisations that cannot afford a Monday morning of people sitting on crates. Turnkey is not a slogan. It is a purchase order, a delivery slot, an installation crew and an aftercare number that answers.
Clients stay because we will refuse a finish that the factory cannot repeat, and because we will still be the people on the phone when a bank of desks has to move in month fourteen.
02 / Scope
Four services. One project lead.
Strategy and space planning
We convert a headcount and a hybrid policy into a furniture layout: neighbourhoods, focus rooms, collaboration edges, tea points and the storage spine people actually use. Drawings are issued so an architect and a contractor can work from them, not admire them.
- Test fits on existing and proposed plates
- Density and circulation overlays
- Furniture schedules tied to layers
- Accessibility and neurodiverse-use notes in the same set
Specification and sampling
Every product is written against a performance brief: task, finish, warranty, acoustic rating, lead time, circularity. Samples sit in the room. A director sitting in a showroom for four minutes is not a trial.
- On-site chair and desk trials
- Finish boards photographed and archived
- Three budget bands when the first one is a fantasy
- Ergonomic notes for specialist roles
Procurement and programme
Factory orders, deposits, hoist bookings and the unfashionable work of making sure crates arrive in the order the installers need them. One commercial contact owns exceptions.
- Single-source purchase orders
- Lead-time reporting against the builder’s date
- Change control when the layout moves after deposit
- International logistics when aftercare can still be guaranteed
Install and aftercare
Out-of-hours crews, floor protection, torque settings from the manufacturer, asset tags, as-installed drawings and a snagging window. Then we remain the first call for a spare gas lift.
- Weekend and night possession
- Labelled neighbourhoods on day one
- Punch list within ten working days
- Reconfiguration without a new tender
03 / Library
A working catalogue, filtered by the job the product has to do.
Linear bench
Shared spines, sit-stand frames, cable trays, screens on 1400 / 1600 / 1800 millimetre stations.
Private office
Single desks with return storage and a meeting overhang for rooms that still host clients.
Task chairs
Mesh and upholstered chairs calibrated for eight-hour occupancy, contract fabrics only.
Visitor chairs
Sled and four-leg chairs for training rooms, reception edges and overflow meetings.
Meeting tables
Boat, racetrack and rectangular from four to twenty seats, power that does not fight the grain.
Board suites
Table, credenza and seating specified as one finish family so the room is an interior, not a page.
Soft seating
Modular sofas, high-back huddle, cafe seating that absorbs sound and is not a desk.
Hospitality
Bar stools, banquettes and tables specified for kitchens that run from breakfast to late projects.
Lighting
Pendants over tables, linear task on benches, floor lamps that warm reception without screen glare.
Carpet and panels
Tile carpets, rugs and wall panels chosen for wear class and the decibel drop the plate needs.
Focus settings
Small rooms and booths only after we have looked at the floor’s actual reverberation.
Reception sequence
First impression furniture that still has a place to put a bag and a working power point.
04 / Floors
Selected interiors, written as they were run.
Names below describe project types we take. Every job is documented with a schedule, a signed finish board and an as-installed set.
Technology · 186 desks
Campus floor, Shoreditch
Four neighbourhoods for a product company leaving three satellite offices. Sit-stand on a 1600 millimetre grid, twelve focus rooms, a materials library and a hospitality spine that can host all-hands without hiring a venue.
- Eleven weeks from sign-off to install
- Two weekend night possessions
- Acoustic rafts over collaboration tables
Legal · 64 desks
Practice floor, Temple
Listed fabric, limited risers, a reception that had to feel like a townhouse. Quieter task chairs, heavier drapery, stone-top reception, meeting rooms bookable by chambers as well as the practice.
- Joinery coordinated with the furniture set
- Heritage-sensitive delivery route
- Client suite in a single veneer
Media · 42 desks
Edit house, King’s Cross
Dark rooms for colourists, bright rooms for producers, a central library of soft seating that can be filmed. Lighting specified as carefully as the chairs: no flicker, no colour shift, no glare on calibrated monitors.
- Anti-glare task lighting
- High-back sofas as informal reviews
- Storage for kit, not only stationery
Healthcare admin · 110 desks
Trust HQ, Kent
Infection-conscious surfaces, clear wayfinding, furniture that can be reconfigured after a departmental merge. A five-year refresh plan written into the original purchase so replacements stay in family.
- Wipeable visitor upholstery
- Phased install around live operations
- Committee-ready density notes
05 / Sequence
How a DICE project actually runs.
Brief and measure
Drawings, headcount, hybrid policy, the political reality of who sits where. If drawings are missing we survey. Output: a written brief.
Test fit
Two or three layouts against the same constraints. The client chooses a planning idea, not a chair. We flag where architecture fights furniture.
Trial
Chairs and desks with the people who will use them. Feedback is written. Showroom minutes do not count as evidence.
Specify
Schedule, finish board and commercial proposal issued together. Every line has a lead time and a manufacturer.
Procure
Orders placed, factory slots booked, a single programme matched to the builder.
Install and settle
Delivery, assembly, punch list, as-installed drawings, thirty-day aftercare, then the first winter of “can we move this bank?”
06 / Clients
Sectors we furnish without a generic package.
Professional services
Law, accountancy, consultancy — composed for clients, still usable at 23:00 during a deal. Quieter rooms, heavier tables, storage that hides the paper that remains.
Technology
Neighbourhoods, war rooms, maker edges, furniture that survives a company doubling twice in eighteen months.
Media and creative
Floors that will be photographed, edited in and hosted in. Lighting and acoustics are part of the furniture brief.
Public and healthcare admin
Framework-aware buying, durable finishes, layouts that can be explained in a committee paper.
Finance
Trading-adjacent floors, regulated meeting rooms, receptions that hold a brand without becoming a hotel lobby.
Education and research
Hot-desk postgraduate space, faculty rooms, furniture that resets between terms without a full reinstall.
07 / First numbers
Workplace load planner.
A first-pass calculator for desks, rooms and a working furniture band. It is not a quote. It is a way to arrive with numbers instead of adjectives.
08 / Notes from the specification desk
Written for facilities leads and anyone who inherited mismatched chairs.
Sit-stand fails when you only buy the frame
Without cable management, screen arms and a chair that can follow the height change, a sit-stand desk is an expensive table. We specify tray, power, monitor support, anti-collision and a gas lift with travel at standing height. If the budget only covers the frame, we will say so and recommend a better fixed desk.
The acoustic problem is usually the floor
Booths are fashionable. They do not fix hard ceilings, glass partitions and no soft mass. Before we sell a booth we look at carpet, baffles and sofa backs. A cheaper acoustic package often outperforms a row of booths that overheat and go unbooked.
Relocation is a furniture project
Companies still move house and buy sofas on the same weekend. We treat relocation as a programme: what moves, what is sold, what is specified new, and how the first Monday does not begin on packing crates.
A finish board is a contract
If the sample is not in the room, the finish does not exist. We photograph signed boards and keep a physical copy until snagging closes. It is the only way to stop a powder-coat argument after two hundred frames have been sprayed.
Lead times are a moral document
We put the real factory date in the proposal, not the optimistic one. Eight to twelve weeks for eighty desks is typical when products are in regular production. Unusual fabrics and shutdowns are written down, not discovered on install week.
One named lead, or it is not turnkey
A project that changes hands between sales, logistics and a freelance installer is how chairs arrive without screens. DICE keeps one person from first drawing to the last Allen key. That is the service, more than the product line.
09 / Before the purchase order
Questions we answer before anyone signs.
Both. Most clients keep us through install so the people who chose the product assemble it. We can supply only if your contractor already has a crew we can brief.
Yes. We act as dealer on someone else’s drawing and still check lead times, discontinued finishes and whether the chair exists in the required quantity.
Yes. The registered office is in Chatham. We deliver throughout the United Kingdom. International work is taken when logistics and aftercare can be guaranteed.
Write to info@dice-workplace.online with drawings if you have them, a headcount and a target date. If you have none of those, write anyway.
10 / Issue
Send the floor plate.
Email is the fastest route. The form lands in the same inbox. We reply within two working days.
Registered office
DICE Workplace Interiors Ltd
15 Westerly Way
St Marys Island
Chatham
England ME4 3AA
Telephone
Company
Private limited company 10692309
Incorporated 27 March 2017
England and Wales
Nature of business
- Wholesale of furniture, carpets and lighting equipment
- Wholesale of office furniture
- Non-specialised wholesale trade
- Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets