Economical ways to enchance interiorscapes of your office.

One way to save money and still bring the outdoors indoors is by using beautiful once living birch tree trunks or even tropical bamboo shoots inside your office workplace.

The white birch used here in one of our Cambridge software companies speaks nature , found in our surrounding NE landscapes. The White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Green Mountains of Vermont and the local woodlands of Massachusetts.

The base of these white birch trees is covered with polished 3" black river rock. This river rock simulates the waters of New England and the earthiness of this restful scene.

This oasis of nature within your office can also be designed with once living bamboo. The bamboo will give your office a more warmer tropical feel.

Plantscape Designs Inc has used both tree stems in office interiors within our Waltham, MA locations.

Why Bamboos in your indoor office interiors?

Bamboos are classified in the grass order (Graminals).There are over 4000 species of grasses.

Grasses are found in the prairies, coniferous forests, shrubby chaparral, desert, alpine and deserts as well as in your indoor offices.

The grasses such as the bamboos have underground rhizomes with culms above ground.

Bamboos can be placed in your lesser light areas as well as in your more lighted sections of your office interiors. They also soften today's contemporary hard surfaces such as glass wood and metal composing your interior office design.

Bamboos palms are palms not Bamboos. Bamboos are true grasses in the family Poaceae. Palms are in the family Arecaceae.

PDIPlants currently services the Cambridge , MA, Boston, MA and Route 128 area office environments.

Indoor office Plants and your office personals' productivity.

Let's take a look at some research that encourages more plants in your office work place, in Boston, MA.

1. Environment and behavior research has found that exposure to nature can have positive psychological benefits (Kaplan, 1983; Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989; Wohlwill, 1983) and that experiences in natural or wilderness surroundings can be restorative (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989).

2. Views of nature evoke higher aesthetic responses and more positive feelings of well-being than do views of nonnatural environments (Ulrich, 1979, 1983; Wohlwill, 1976).

3. Nature also is important in encouraging feelings of attachment to particular places or environment types (Riley, 1992). Intuitively, most people perceive plants as enhancements to the office environment, and we speculate that this assumption may be due to plants' ability to represent the vegetative component of the natural world.

4. In the above studies, hypothesized that the presence of plants in an indoor work environment would have a positive effect on participants' task productivity, perceptions of performance, and attitudes toward the work space, as compared to the same environment without plants.

5. This hypothesis was based on the findings of previous research that suggest that the presence of plants or other surrogates of nature have a positive effect on environmental attitudes and perceptions. We were interested in finding experimental verification for this previous research within a workplace setting and in extending the investigation to encompass productivity.

We, at Plantscape Designs Inc have experienced similiar customer positive feed back whenever, one of our clients has purchased indoor office plants for their N.E officescapes, Boston, MA.

A study indicating Plants assist in cleaning and increasing humidity in the air of commercial buildings.

1. Studies were conducted in a computer lab and a small office at Washington State University. Interior plants, when present, were placed around the sides of the room for a one-week period. Relative humidity and particulate matter were monitored.

2. Particulate matter was measured around the rooms on various surfaces away from the plants.

3. Dust was significantly lower throughout both rooms when plants were present than when they were absent.

4. Dust was reduced by as much as 20% with plants. This study confirmed that the use of plants to remove particulate matter, which has often been used outdoors to control deposition, also is effective on the scale present in interiors.

5. Clearly, water will transpire from plants that are added to a room. What was not clear before this study, was whether the amount of transpired water was sufficient to make a significant or meaningful contribution to the overall humidity in the room. Some even speculated that the increase might be so great that moisture damage could result.

6. When plants were absent from the rooms used in this study, the relative humidity was very low, and often below the range of 30% to 60% recommended for human health and comfort. When plants were added, the relative humidity rose significantly, but not excessively: in one case, for example, relative humidity without plants averaged 25%, and with plants it averaged 30%.

At Plantscape Designs Inc these kind of studies further reinforce our in field experience that plant help create a healthier office working environment in the Waltham, MA areas.