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You can see Caretta Workspace products at our Showroom and Factory at 635 Enterprise Drive, Lewis Center, OH 43035. We are open Monday-Friday 8am to 5pm, or by appointment. (877) 422-1088. Click More Info to get a map.
About the Designer
Larry Tracewell is the Founder of Caretta Workspace and Designer of all of the beautiful and functional desks, tables, led lamps and other unique Caretta products.
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Caretta Loft Desk in Solid Black Walnut
Compact in size, but large in style and functionality, the Caretta Loft Series desks were developed with small offices in mind. This desk features solid Black Walnut and laser cut steel construction. It also has an integrated cable tray and surge suppressing power strip.The Loft Series of products are available in Black Walnut, Natural Cherry or Ash. All are over an inch thick solid hardwood.
Solid Cherry and Ash Hardwood
In the factory today, we took delivery of more of our raw materials. In this case it is 3,000 board feet of the most beautiful solid cherry and ash hardwood that you will ever see. That's about 10,000 lbs of Ohio grown, FSC Certified wood!
NEW Loft Series Desks
With the new Loft Series, we’ve taken all of the best features of a full-sized desk and created a desk designed for tight spaces. With cable management, solid hardwood desks in Ash, Natural Cherry or Black Walnut, integrated power strip, lots of functional accessories, the Loft Desks are the perfect desk for lofts, apartments and condos.
Sanding on a Loft Desk Top
In the factory today, a Caretta Workspace craftsman is sanding a solid cherry wood Loft Desk top. This desk top is made of over 1" thick, solid Cherry Hardwood. You can also see the steel threaded inserts already installed for easily attaching the desk legs, cable tray, locking drawer, or optional keyboard tray.
Tunnel of Desk Legs
In wood finishing today is a tunnel of desk legs. There are the legs for the Artistic Series of Desks. Not only are they attractive, but functional as they reduce any knee obstructions when moving around on your desk. This is especially true of the L Shaped desks when you move from the desk to the return.
Artistic Book Shelves in Production
What's going on in the factory today? Here is a batch of Artistic Book Shelves that are moving through production. You are welcome to visit our factory and showroom to see it for yourself! We are open M-F, 8-5, or by appointment. Give Caretta Workspace a call at 614-430-8660.
Featured Product: Caretta Workspace Coat Tree
Featured Product: Caretta Workspace Coat Tree The Coat Tree is sculpted from premium solid cherry and weighted at the base with a steel counterweight. Rods at the top of the Coat Tree can hold up to 4 hangers each, or 8 hangers total. With beautiful solid cherry construction, this is functional art at its best.
Happy Thanksgiving from Caretta Workspace!
We found a turkey hanging out in the showroom! Come visit our showroom here at the factory. We are typically open M-F, 8-5, except holidays, but you are always welcome to let us know when you can make it, and we will be here for you! Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Compact Standing Desk - A Modified Standard Product
If you see a product that you like, but it doesn't quite fit the bill, ask us about modifications. Take this example. A customer needed a standing desk, but our standard 45" X 32" Standing Desk 1 was a bit too large. We modified the design to create this 34" X 24" Compact Standing Desk! The customer also needed a keyboard tray and monitor arm that was strong enough to hold his all-in-one computer.
How to Wire your iMac Desk
Caretta Desks were designed with cable management in mind, and that is especially true when wiring an iMac computer to your desk. Here are some tips and ideas how to wire up your iMac or iMac Pro so it cleans up the wires and cables at your workspace.
Tools In Our Factory: The CNC Wood Router
At Caretta Workspace, one of the most important pieces of machinery we use is our SCM Routech CNC Router. It's a computer controlled router that cuts along the X, Y, and Z axes. With a 15 horsepower spindle, it can easily tackle our 2.25" thick desk frames, and it has a 12 position automatic tool changer that can quickly switch from one cutter to the next. This allows it to easily cut a variety of profiles, like the bull-nose edge on our desktops, and transition into drilling holes for dowel pins or the inset for a desk inlay.Eliminating the need for cumbersome clamps, the machine has two 12 horsepower vacuum pumps that create a suction to hold the pieces so firmly in place that they are impossible to move by hand. Although the pumps only produce about 10 psi of vacuum pressure, we design fixtures that maximize the surface area of the part being held. For example, a part that has 25 square inches of surface area to hold down has 250 pounds of force pushing it against the table. This allows us to make large cuts in the wood while the piece is held securely in place. The router is indispensable to our factory because it cuts our wood pieces much faster than we could cut them with traditional woodworking tools and it makes parts with such precision that each part fits perfectly together.
Featured Product: Power Organizer Tower
If you need some place at your desk to keep your papers within reach, yet get them out of the way, if you are always looking for a handy place to plug-in your laptop or powered speaker, if it would be nice to have a dedicated place to locate a phone charger or small docking station with cable access to your computer, then the Power Organizer Tower is the right accessory for you!With either 3 or 6 shelves, you have plenty of room for all of your important papers and documents. You can also place items on the shelves that need to plug into your computer, because there is an easy access port to the main desk cable tray.If you need to plug in anything at your desk, There are three power plugs right on the front of the tower.
Artistic Book Shelf Sides in Finishing
This is a set of Artistic Book Shelf sides in the finish room. Each piece of wood that we make goes through an extensive 10-step finish process that can take a week or longer to complete.The shape of these pieces are a good example of the Functional Art aspect of our products. You can find more information on the Artistic Book Shelf in the Companion Products and Accessories Tab, under Office accessories.
Sanding Artistic Hutch Legs
What's going on in the factory today? One of our craftsman is hand sanding solid cherry pieces that will make up the base of an Artistic Hutch. There is a good amount of hand work that goes into all of our products.You can see the Artistic Hutch here:/products/companion-products/office-accessories/artistic-hutch
New Magazine Ads
See our ads in the latest issues of Cowboys & Indians and Western Horseman magazines. We are featuring the Artistic Computer Desk 2, with a laser-engraved modesty panel. You can select one of our standard graphics like this horse scene, provide graphics of your own, or we can create something custom for you!
Artistic Desk Legs in Production
Solid cherry wood forms the shape of the desk legs for the Artistic Series of desks. You can see the difference between the unfinished wood and what it looks like once it has gone through our 10-step finish process.
Home office furniture in limited space should be functional and attractive: The Cleveland Plain Dealer covers Caretta Workspace
In the March 9th, 2014 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, an article titled "Home office furniture in limited space should be functional and attractive", journalist Jill Sell examines Caretta Workspace and some of the new products that they are offering, including the new line of stand-up desks.
Innovative Ohio Company Expands Product Line to Meet Growing Demand for Innovative, Modern Office Furniture
Lewis Center, Ohio – Caretta Workspace(www.carettaworkspace.com) is a home office furniture and corporate office furniture manufacturer that specializes in creating configurable workspaces that integrate technology, conservation and beauty. They are using traditional materials in a new way to create a desk that is made for today’s technology. The company has expanded its product offerings from the traditional computer desks to include standing desks, conference tables, a contemporary and colorful desk made of composite materials, High efficient LED Desk lamps, and many other products to complete a beautiful modern office.Caretta desks integrate modern computer technology with attractive design. Their desks, tables, and accessories transform offices from areas cluttered with messy computer wires and power cables to productive, inspiring, attractive workspaces. Incorporated into their desks is a system of cable trays and large integrated power strips that literally cleans up all of the computer wires and cables. A lot of accessories, such as monitor arms for multiple monitors, USB ports at the desktop, computer shelves, and file cabinets can be added to configure the perfect desk for any type of user. Each Caretta product is a one-of-a kind, functional work of art, with a numbered badge included on the piece.Caretta has put a great deal of thought and attention to detail into every element of the desks and other products they manufacture. Caretta desks are made of solid, premium Ohio-grown Cherry hardwood, hand-selected for unique grain patterns and finished with a durable, bright, natural cherry finish and a bull nose edge that provides comfort. The artistic shaped legs provide a clean, stylish look and finish to what really is a beautiful piece of functional art. The desks can include custom-engraved wood panels that incorporate a customer’s logo or other area of interest to further personalize the workspace. From the precision fit wood joinery, smooth hand-sanded finish and micro-suede lined locking drawers, to the large cable trays, integrated surge-suppressing power strips, ease of assembly, and soft yet durable writing surfaces, Caretta products are truly world-class.Customers buy direct from Caretta’s manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio, over their website or from their factory showroom. Caretta Workspace manufactures the best home office furniture and corporate office furniture on the market. Customers span North America, from Canada to Hawaii and everywhere in between.Caretta Workspace is an American owned and operated company based in central Ohio. By constantly evolving its products and allowing the customer to configure a workspace based on their individual needs and habits, Caretta Workspace has successfully combined innovation and functional art. The company is dedicated to sustainability, using products and processes that protect the environment, including Ohio hardwoods from local suppliers who carry the Forest Stewardship Council ™ (FSC®) Chain-of-Custody certification from the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program. Caretta Workspace is named for the endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle (scientific name: Caretta Caretta), a creature perfectly adapted to its environment. For every desk sold, Caretta Workspace makes a donation to the “Save the Turtles” Sea Turtle Conservation Fund through the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. For more information on the Caretta story or to learn about its products, visit www.carettaworkspace.com or call 877-422-1088.
Building a Standing Cherry Wood Desk: Woodworking Network covers Caretta Workspace
In their January 31, 2014 article , Woodworking Network reporter Matt Schumake looks into some of the history of people using standing desks, and some of the recent news In their January 31, 2014 article Building a Standing Cherry Wood Desk: Caretta Workspace, Woodworking Network reporter Matt Schumake looks into some of the history of people using standing desks, and some of the recent news in the popularity of standing desks, such as the recent article in "Popular Science" titled "Sitting is the new Smoking."
Innovation Meets Art with Caretta Workspace
A central Ohio company has taken the clutter out of workspaces by creating a world-class desk design that is part artwork, part innovation. Caretta Workspace integrates technology, conservation and beauty while minimizing the clutter of cords on and around the desk.
Columbus Business First features Caretta Workspace
On Friday, November 29th, Columbus Business First ran a feature article featuring Caretta Workspace. In the article titled “Caretta desks hide wires fashionably,” reporter Melissa Dutton writes about Caretta Workspace Founder Larry Tracewell and his reasons for starting the company.
The Columbus Disptach features Caretta Workspace
On Sunday, August 11th, The Columbus Dispatch ran a feature article Caretta Workspace in their Business section. In the article titled “Caretta Workspace mixes design with technology,” business reporter Dan Gearino tells the story of the history of Caretta and it’s founder and designer Larry Tracewell.
The Metropreneur writes about Caretta Workspace
The Metropreneur, which is an online business news magazine, featured Caretta Workspace in an article titled "Caretta Workspace furniture a mix of technology, traditional materials."In the article, they interview Larry Tracewell, the founder and product designer for Caretta. They discuss topics ranging from the inspiration and initial product development for Caretta Products, to what sets Caretta Apart from its competition.
Testimonials
Here are what some of our customers are saying about their new Caretta office.
A Caretta Workspace customer talks about his office.
Devious Media has created over 100 interactive television (ITV) applications across just about every genre. It's a given that they use a lot of technology in their workspace. That's why when it came to updating their office, they turned to Caretta workspace.
From Homefixated.com : Caretta Workspaces Organize Your Wires and Give You a Rock Star Desk
Thank you to our friends at HomeFixated.com for writing a nice article about Caretta workspace!
WIRED Store NYC
We are going to have a Type 21 Desk and a few other items at the WIRED Store in New York City, November 18 - December 24th. Come check us out!The location for this years store is in Times Square at the corner of 42nd St. and Broadway. It is in the former ESPN Zone location.I'll see you there!
Caretta Workspace advertises in WIRED Magazine
The September 2011 edition of WIRED Magazine now hitting news stands and mail boxes all around the country. Readers will find something special on page 152, as they can see Caretta Workspace's first advertisement in the WIRED Exchange.
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