The Sheila Bird Group

The Sheila Bird Group has installed an electric mix of Forbo products in a flamboyant patchwork design. After moving into a new office in Manchester, the interior design group wanted to create a space that empowered its clients. Atul Bansal, MD of the Sheila Bird Group: “Some of our clients are afraid to use colour and texture as such, and we wanted our new office space to challenge existing habits; we wanted to show clients that they can step outside of the norm when it comes to interior design.”

“By combining a wide range of tile products from Forbo’s large portfolio, we have managed to create an impressive and vivid patchwork design – which also acts as a great way to show samples to clients. However, to push the flooring design boundaries further, we installed Forbo’s new Hemingbone Flotex covering alongside the patchwork arrangement to really give that ‘wow’ factor.”

A mixture of Forbo’s Flotex, Tessera, Allura and carpet tiles were specified in an array of colourways and digital print designs to create the patchwork. The contrasting black and white Hemingbone floor covering is a take on a traditional herringbone parquet floor.

Atul also specified Forbo’s Coral entrance flooring system in a purple colourway, to protect the interior floor coverings from wet and dry soiling brought in on the soles of shoes. In fact, Coral’s entrance flooring system can reduce maintenance costs by 65%.

Atul continued: “When clients visit our new offices, they leave feeling energised and open to new ideas, which is exactly what we wanted. At the Sheila Bird Group we like to mix

up things up a bit, so Forbo’s selection of soft, hard and textured floor coverings really provide us with the scope to design bespoke interiors for our clients.

“What’s more, by using one manufacturer we can help our clients’ budgets go further as there is no need to compromise on the design we want to create. Working with Forbo makes us smile and smiling is what we love to do – and making clients happy!”