Innovative Office Solutions
Making your work place work is the motto of Smith CFI, a commercial office furniture and design showroom in Bend, offering their clients and the architecture/design community innovative office furniture solutions throughout Oregon and southwest Washington, or wherever their work takes them.
Carol Gregg is the director and manager of the Bend location, a satellite showroom spun off from the main Smith CFI headquarters in Portland back in 2004.
“Creating a relaxing, fabulous work space is what we do, designing and planning an aesthetic, creatively pleasing work place where employees spend 40-60 hours a week of their lives,” she said “It’s all done through careful programming, interviewing, color selection and focusing in on a location’s specific requirements.
Her approach is focused on helping customers achieve their workspace goals. By providing expert advice, products and services that contribute to client’s success, Gregg believes she will earn your business today, and in the future.
Smith CFI maintains access to a broad range of quality furniture lines, styles and product types to meet any design style or budget requirement. They cater to everyone from higher education classrooms and faculty offices, law firms and architectural companies, to healthcare corporations, research firms and professional buildings. Her tools include digital rendering software and an array of hi-quality lines from exclusive manufacturers like Steelcase, Watson and Turnstone. Gregg’s catalog of inventory can be used to organize and beautify the entire spectrum of office spaces encompassing office lobbies, seating areas and conference rooms.
“I’ve been in the business for 35 years and personally opened this showroom eight years ago and have taken it from nothing to the only interior design firm for offices in all of Central Oregon,” Gregg said. “I love what I do and cover all the way from Medford and Klamath Falls and Ashland all the way up to the Columbia River. The most rewarding thing about this business is the people and the interaction with my clients, giving them a space they can afford and being creative.”
Smith CFI Studio provides an engaging, interactive design process that helps customers develop solutions to their unique needs. Gregg’s team brings the ability to create products through user-based design in a way that enhances communication, integrates technology and inspires all that interact with the solutions.
The company itself has been in business for over 65 years and applies a team-oriented approach to guide the way they do business. They define a team as “a group of people, including clients, who pursue success by working cooperatively toward a clearly defined goal.” It is committed to providing positive client and employee experiences by acting with integrity, showing dignity and respect for every person, displaying a “Can Do” attitude toward client and teammates, promoting positive relationships, having a positive community impact and having fun in everything they do.
Gregg and her consultative team approach helps her to clearly understand her customer’s objectives and successfully complete projects of any size. Smith CFI has received Steelcase’s “Quality Achievement Award” recognizing outstanding achievement and the integration of quality management practices. They are also certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the National Minority Supplier Development Council.
Smith CFI offers office desks in contemporary, traditional and transitional styles, featuring many shapes and configurations in wood, veneer, laminates and steel. With seating choices they present an enticing and popular collection of quality, task, executive, ergonomic, multi-use, stackable, lounge and healthcare seating. They are also able to assist in integrating technology into the workspace using video conferencing systems, computers, monitoring cameras, security devices and digital workstations.
“We help customers and clients pick out inventory working off anything from a tiny budget to high end interiors including a combination of used and refurbished furniture to save money,” she explained. “We can handle everything, like carpet selection, fabrics and finishes, curtains and drapes, to determining logistics and execution with executives and staff to work within their budget to accomplish a beautiful space. Our main showroom in Bend is 18-thousand square feet so the selection is quite extensive. Being creative and mixing new and used furniture is a way to make budgets stretch in a difficult economy and thinking out of the box is what I do best.”
Gregg feels right at home here on the High Desert and has developed professional friendships and a vibrant marketing network that reaches far beyond the Cascade peaks.
“Bend is such a beautiful place to live and I really like the small town atmosphere where you can run into your clients around town and say hi. It’s great to have that close interaction with clients and the whole business community. It’s been said so many times but it really is true.”
Smith CFI is located at 150 SW Scalehouse Loop Ste # 103/104 in Bend. You can call Gregg for questions or an appointment at 541-317-8777 or online at infobend@smithcfi.com.
