Office storage, filing & lockers
Start storage planning with an inventory and access strategy—not empty cabinets on a floor plan.
Pettus helps organizations coordinate personal storage, shared supplies, files, equipment, samples, wardrobes, cabinets, shelving, islands, and locker applications around real contents, access, security, footprint, workflow, materials, installation, and future change.
Space planning priorities
Start storage planning with an inventory and access strategy—not empty cabinets on a floor plan
The strongest plan makes room purpose, users, connected systems, operating requirements, and project responsibility clear before products are fixed.
Inventory what storage must hold
Separate active files, archive, personal items, coats, supplies, samples, equipment, mail, shared resources, waste, and items that no longer need physical storage.
Match access frequency to placement
Daily, weekly, occasional, and archived items should not consume the same reach zones or floor locations. Map who uses each item and where the work occurs.
Define ownership and security
Clarify assigned, shared, reservable, department, visitor, and restricted storage; keys or access methods; turnover; records responsibility; and the operating process.
Test doors, drawers, aisles, and clearances
Plan the open condition of drawers and doors, user position, aisle width, adjacent furniture, circulation, accessibility, wall conditions, floor loads, and installation access.
Store less, place it better
Storage should support work instead of hiding an undefined problem.
An item-level review often reveals duplicate supplies, obsolete records, poorly located shared resources, personal-storage gaps, and products that do not match the dimensions or access needs of what they hold.
- Measure representative files, supplies, samples, equipment, personal items, and special contents
- Document ownership, retention, security, access frequency, user reach, and replenishment workflow
- Calculate practical capacity using internal dimensions—not only exterior cabinet dimensions
- Test open drawers, doors, aisles, handles, clear floor space, walls, floors, and adjacent work
- Plan labeling, assignment, keys or access, turnover, cleaning, parts, moves, additions, and future inventory
Decision criteria
Treat storage as a workplace workflow and asset-control decision.
Assigned and shared-worker needs
Daily items, bags, coats, devices, files, supplies, hygiene, privacy, accessibility, assignment, turnover, and hybrid-work patterns.
Files, supplies, samples, and equipment
Item dimensions, weight, access frequency, user groups, replenishment, security, retention, adjacency, work surfaces, and transport.
Footprint, installation, and future change
Walls, floors, anchorage where required, doors, aisles, delivery access, maintenance, finish matching, parts, relocation, expansion, and replacement.
Planning path
Convert stored contents into a practical capacity and placement plan.
Measure what must remain.
List contents, dimensions, quantities, weight, retention, ownership, security, access frequency, current pain points, and future assumptions.
Place storage around work.
Test personal, shared, departmental, support, locker, filing, and equipment storage against users, adjacencies, reach, aisles, and accessibility.
Confirm usable capacity.
Compare internal dimensions, doors, drawers, shelves, locks or access, materials, finishes, quantities, budget, lead time, and installation requirements.
Document control and change.
Install, assign, label, key or configure as applicable, maintain, audit, reassign, move, add, repair, and replace as contents and teams change.
Related planning and proof
Continue the storage-planning path.
Connect storage requirements to workstations, private offices, facilities operations, and full-scope planning.
Workstations
Integrated personal and shared storage, privacy, power, data, accessories, standards, and future reconfiguration.
Explore workstations OfficesPrivate & executive offices
Focused work, meetings, task seating, casegoods, personal storage, technology, standards, and installation.
Plan private offices OperationsFacilities & workplace operations
Maintenance, moves, additions, changes, occupied work, replacement, warranty, and continuing service.
Explore operationsCommon questions
Questions buyers ask before the application is fixed.
The answer should follow the project requirements rather than a universal product recommendation.
How do we know how much storage we need?
Are lockers useful for hybrid workplaces?
Can existing files and cabinets be reused?
Can Pettus help plan storage into workstations and private offices?
Share the inventory, users, access needs, floor plan, and future-change assumptions.
Pettus can help translate stored contents into a practical workplace storage plan.