Office Breakout Furnishings
Most people spend the working day at a desk, staring at a screen. Breakout and lounge areas give them somewhere else to go — to take a proper break, have an informal conversation, or work somewhere that isn't their desk for an hour.
Since hybrid working became normal, these spaces have become the reason many people come into the office at all. They're where the unplanned conversations happen, and they're increasingly what candidates notice on an interview tour.
McCreery supplies and installs breakout, lounge and work-café furniture across Dublin and all of Ireland — sofas, booths, poufs, lounge chairs and acoustic pods — from a single seating area to an entire floor. We work with manufacturers including Diemme, Sitland, Pedrali, Softline, Teknion, Connection and Abstracta.
Planning a breakout area
Most well-used breakout spaces combine two or three of the following, rather than relying on one type of furniture.
Lounge and soft seating
Sofas, modular seating and lounge chairs for informal conversation and a genuine change of posture from the desk.
Booths and semi-private spaces
High-backed booths give people somewhere to have a quiet conversation or take a call without booking a meeting room. They also break up open-plan space visually and acoustically.
Work café and informal dining
Tables and stacking chairs that work for lunch, informal meetings and laptop work at different times of day. See our work café designs.
Acoustic pods and quiet rooms
Enclosed pods for calls, video meetings and focused work. Increasingly essential now that so many calls are taken from open-plan desks. See also our acoustic solutions.
Sofas and Soft Seating
Diemme Modular Sofas - Cross
Diemme Modular Sofas - Bread
Diemme Loft
Diemme Snake Collection
Sitland Bomm
Sitland Path Modular Sofa
Teknion Zones
Pedrali Host
Pedrali Modus
Pedrali Log-368 Sofa
Antares Plus Reception Seating
Sitland Lido
Softline - Lotus Collection
Sitland Matrix
Connection - Tryst Armchairs
Lounge Seating
Softline - Havana Swivel
Softline - Noomi
Connection - Kala
Seating Booths
Sitland Cell128
Connection - Tryst Booth
Connection - Peacework
Aresline - Naxos Acoustic
Softline - Basket Chair
Poufs
Softline Pouf - Opera
Softline Pouf - Quadro
Sitland Pouf - Joy
Acoustic Rooms & Pods
Abstracta Plenty Pod
Flekssit Pod
Abstracta Zen Pod
See it in our Dublin showroom
Soft seating is difficult to judge from a photograph. Visit our 5,000 sq ft showroom in Kimmage, Dublin 12 to sit in the sofas, try the booths and see the fabrics and finishes properly before you commit.
Fitting out a whole space?
Breakout furniture works best when it's planned as part of the wider layout — sightlines, acoustics, power and circulation all matter. We handle complete office design and fit-out from one point of contact.
Tell us about the space you have and how you'd like people to use it, and we'll come back with options and a quote. You'll deal directly with Gerard or John.