Butternut Box are a bold and creative brand, dedicated to providing the highest quality nutrition for dogs. Their rapid growth has seen them feed more and more dogs, and ultimately meant that they outgrew their shared serviced office and needed a space to call their own. Delivering this scheme, we ensured that Butternut Box’s creative flare was seeded throughout, all while ensuring functional aspects to meet their core values.

Inspired by the joyful experience of taking a dog for walk, the office features bright, bold engagement zones alongside serene collaboration areas. One of which is ‘The Park’ – the largest meeting room of the space – where the auditorium style seating and a conversation pit encourage social interaction among employees. We teamed this with ergonomic and organic design elements, such as the curves and natural finishes, that mimic the organic flow of a park. This thoughtful design promotes productivity and well-being, ensuring that our design enhanced creativity, and met the ambition to create ‘the greatest place you’ve ever worked’ for the team at Butternut Box.

Functionality paired with playful aesthetics

Butternut Box as a brand is playful and vibrant at it’s core, so when designing this scheme we knew that it was important to carry this sentiment through to the space. The colour palette reflects this, where the ‘Butternut Box yellow’ is elevated to a sophisticated, pastel yellow — seen most clearly in the checkerboard tiling in the kitchen area. The checkerboard tiling — a focus feature of the space, is a direct nod to Butternut Box’s product boxes and logo, which, alongside warm wood tones and panelling, cement the Butternut Box branding in to the space.

Design fit for the four-legged friends

With “dogs at the heart” of Butternut Box as a business, it was a no-brainer for our design to feature elements that provide comfortability for the four-legged office users, while not compromising the employee experience. The inclusion of a dog-bowl ‘station’ in the kitchen, the resting places for dog beds, and lead hooks under all desks, ensure that the needs of the dogs are fully integrated in the space. To reduce potential distractions, all meeting rooms feature lower glass sections to prevent dogs from seeing each other — alongside these features, the materials used throughout the space are dog-friendly, with most being wipeable and durable enough to withstand continued use from both people and their pets.