Inside the Newly Remodeled Grooms Office Environments

1. Grooms Office Environments owners Jonathan and Audrey Garard started their remodel in January of 2024, wanting to create a space that better reflects their team. “Audrey and I have always had a vision for what we want to provide for our employees,” Jonathan says.

2. One of the biggest goals of the remodel was to create an outdoor office space to showcase their corporate outdoor furniture. “It changes how we are able to host and has created an elevated experience for our employees and the clients we work with,” Jonathan says.

3. Grooms has been around more than 48 years, leasing for 47 of those. “We’ve never had a chance to create a space we believe represents our industry,” Jonathan says. Their space showcases what they can do for office environments, like in Jonathan’s office, created for smaller teams to gather.

4. The new office space also gives Grooms the opportunity to showcase how their own team operates. “In the past, if we wanted to show a client different styles of cubicles working together, we would actually have to take them to other businesses in Springfield to show them that product,” Audrey says.

5. The new space allows the team to help clients visualize all they can do—and bring their ideas to life. “There’s a new excitement and renewed sense of focus and energy because you feel good about where you work, you feel good about showing that to your clients,” Audrey says. “It’s strengthening.”

6. Within the teams workspace is a design library where designers can experiment with different combinations of color and texture in the fabrics and materials they use. “We have a design library that is unique to the architecture design industry and is the largest, for sure in the community, if not all of Missouri,” Audrey says.