Luggage Isn't Just for Vacations Anymore

No matter where we go, it seems we always need to take something with us. Whether it’s just a quick trip to the drugstore, a business meeting or an afternoon in the park, we want some place to keep our keys, wallet and cell phone handy, safe and secure. Many luggage manufacturers are branching out and making quality items in a wide variety of bags that will get you to and from work, the gym, the grocery store and school in style. With so many kinds to choose from, Cymax Stores can help make your search for the perfect bag easy and convenient.

Being prepared for a busy day at the office doesn’t have to mean just your basic briefcase. Specifically designed to meet the needs of the business professional on the go, manufacturers are offering products that include those little “extras” such as built-in organizers and pockets for digital devices. Because of their multi-purpose nature, messenger bags have become very popular. They are generally soft-sided and have several different sections in addition to the main compartment. For the obvious reason, computer bags are also gaining in popularity amongst busy professionals. They are available in a wide variety of materials, sizes and styles, but most of them incorporate a padded or secure section for a laptop, to keep it safe in transport. The leather attache case is still a classic, while portfolios, catalog cases and rolling briefcases are viable alternatives.

Going to the gym, hitting the trail or climbing a mountain can be almost painless with the right accessory. A sports bag is a good companion to have with you when go exploring. They can include zippered water bottle holders, separate wet compartments, padded handles, adjustable straps and even wheels for added convenience and mobility. They also can be used as a carry-on or a weekender bag.

As all of us are becoming more conscious of ways that we can be kinder to our planet, the shopping tote might be the perfect solution. They can range from the basic two-handled kind to ones that have several features intended to make shopping easier, including wheels. For carrying a number of miscellaneous items, many luggage and handbag manufacturers offer a variety of all-purpose totes, made of materials ranging from leather to durable, lightweight nylon or microfiber. These totes often have special compartments for newspapers or umbrellas.

When packing all that necessary stuff for a day at school or on the trail, a common choice for students and hikers is the backpack. Designed to rest comfortably on your shoulders and strapped around your waist for added stability and support, it can carry a wide variety of items. But this style of bag is so convenient, easy to use and versatile, that versions of your basic backpack are now appearing in boardrooms as well, with special laptop compartments, organizers and space for cell phones, business cards and keys.

Lightweight, compact, crafted from leather or made from water-repellent materials, when shopping online at Cymax Stores, you’re sure to find right bag for your busy lifestyle. Whether you’re looking for a briefcase, shopper tote, sports bag or backpack, you will find the perfect one that will help keep your day running smoothly.

Thinking Outside the Box: Breaking Free From Office Cubicles

Cubicle life can be drab and draining at the best of times. Being caged inside four walls of grey fuzzy fabric, put together with rusty screws and wobbly legs does not exactly inspire a creative and effective work area. Natural light and open space should not be a break-time luxury; instead, it should be a fundamental element of your office space.

Cymax Stores provides online shopping for office furniture that is essential to a successful work environment. At www.bushfurniturecollection.com, you will find a variety of office furniture fit for every type of business and every office employee. Office space arrangements can be tricky, but with over seven hundred options for cubicle configurations alone, Bush Furniture covers everything you might never have even thought of. No matter how small or big your office is, we’ll find a fit.

With collections such as Bush Furniture’s Office-in-an-Hour, designing your workplace has never been so simple. Cymax allows you to narrow your search by design, finish, and price so that you can find what you need right away. Mismatched chairs and tables, lack of storage options, and messy wires stick out like sore thumbs. Impress your clients with stylish uniformity and pamper your employees to a comfortable work environment.

Bush Furniture desks come with panel grommets for wire access, keeping computer equipment tidy and out of sight, so no more tripping over cable wires on your way to the boss’s office! No matter if you are right or left handed either, you will find a desk that accommodates you.

Although a messy desk might make it seem like you have a lot of work on your hands, it doesn’t look attractive for the passerby. Filing cabinets can help you clean up your desk and organize your files so that important information is out-of-sight but easy to access. Also an attractive and efficient storage option is a hutch for over a desk. A hutch allows you to keep your desk surface clear; it also allows you to display special items, such as framed photographs of your loved ones, so that your workspace has an individual and personal feel to it. Bush Furniture also carries bookshelves in all sorts of colors, sizes, and styles.

Many items in the Bush Furniture collection come in a variety of finishes, giving a different look for every office, while keeping the style within one workspace the same. With choices in quality materials, styles, and collections, get rid of the drib and drab in your workplace.

Most of us spend more of our waking hours at work than we do in our own homes, which is one of the reasons why it is so important to furnish an office in a way that respects and keeps in mind the needs of each employee. Our environment affects our frame of mind, which in turn affects our ability to produce and inspire ideas and productivity. Cymax works to help you accomplish a positive environment for your work team with our extensive Bush Furniture collections.

From our office to yours: happy shopping.

Going French With Help From Cymax

I’ve decided to change my identity. My entire heritage, actually. Although I am a perfectly balanced mix of Scottish and English (50/50, I’m told), I’m going French. It’s just that French is sultrier, more seductive. The language elegantly rolls off the tongue… well, more like the back of the throat, but still. I love to eat, and the tastes of France beat the Scottish meat ‘n potatoes or the British fish ‘n chips staple foods. I’ll stay away from escargot, but bring on the cheeses and baguettes, and especially the chocolate fondue, any day. And no more tartan, no more cardigans. I want Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, and Chanel. And who doesn’t want to go to the most romantic country in the world? I certainly do. French: I want to speak it, eat it, wear it, and live it. I want to be French.

In order to “go” French there are some essential things I need to change about my home. Luckily, Cymax makes this incredibly easy with the convenience of online shopping. Cymax has a variety of furniture items, for every room in the house, which will help with my transformation.

Firstly, in order to cook up a French storm, to have all the wonderful aromas and tastes that come with the nationality, I will need a French kitchen cart for all of the extra space I will need to accommodate the varieties of ingredients cluttering my kitchen. Classically styled, this cart will make it easy to cook a genuine gourmet French-inspired meal. I will also need a French baker’s rack for all of the baguettes I plan on making. I don’t know how to make them yet, but those are just minor details.

But I can’t just go from a French kitchen to a drab eating area, furnished with a table and chairs from England that have been passed down to me from centuries ago that any person my age should not have anywhere near their house if they want to avoid the nickname “Granny”. In order to genuinely transform my identity, I need to invest in a French bar table set to feed myself and my guests in style. This will provide a perfect perch for wine and cheese, and a good gab. With the contemporary style, combined with a touch of traditional French scrollwork, I can have a modern dining area with a French design. There I will sit, pouring champagne for guests, and will be well on my way to French-hood.

My new French identity needs to infiltrate my every hour though – even when I am not awake. In order to be successful at training my subconscious, I need to start having French dreams. In order for French dreams, I need to be dreaming in a bed complete with a French comforter set. This nine-piece comforter set features a leafy design that I can only imagine mirrors the falling leaves on Paris streets. Here, I will sleep in French, and when I wake up, I will take my fashionable new clothes out of my French floral accent chest to dress myself, and head to my French jewelry armoire to put on my make-up and accessories to start my day on the right foot.

The finishing touches for my newly Frenchized home will probably be the most important part of my transitioning nationality. I will desperately need a place to practice the language. Sure, I will get the chance to test out my French by speaking with friends (or forcing them to listen to me), but I won’t master the language, or the nationality, without studying. With a French floral desk to match my accent chest, and a French table lamp to keep me company through hours and hours of perfecting the language and the accent, I will have everything I need.

On top of this, thanks to the ability to shop online for all of these necessities, I can become French without having to leave the house. That said, once I feel French enough, I am buying a one-way ticket to France (bypassing the United Kingdom), and bringing my furniture with me. C’est final.

I Think Therefore I am a Dining Chair

I'm blond, I'm beautiful and I'm young. I have a svelte figure that I’m particularly proud of and one that I like to show off as much as possible. I live with my mother, father, one sister and two brothers. Our cousin also lives with us. But he’s a dining table.

I don’t know what life is like for him, but for me life as a Pastel Dining Chair is pretty casual, comfortable and fun. I have plenty of style and I’m built to last. This is not surprising, since I started out as heavy duty steel tubing, constructed for durability. My rich finish is applied in five stages, which is hand-applied for a customized look. Meaning I’m unique, even though I might closely resemble my siblings.

But the final result—if I may say so—is simply stunning. I have shapely legs, a classic lattice-back, finials, cushy upholstery and a curved crestrail. My crestrail is made of wood, in a soft warm color, which adds distinction and lessens my strong metal look. It also allows me to blend seamlessly with my cousin, the table.

The best part of being a chair in a Pastel Dining Set is that we belong to a family of five. Instead of having to take time out of their busy day to go to a retail store, we were bought online through Cymax Stores. I was conveniently shipped straight from the warehouse to my new home in what seemed like no time at all.

Since they lead such busy lives, they don’t get a chance to sit down all together for a meal as often as I would like them to. But I’m more fortunate than my sister, who has no one sitting in her on a regular basis—she’s the spare chair for when there’s a guest. I belong to a teenager, who is very energetic and talks a lot. Mostly on her cell phone when she thinks her mother isn’t looking or is too busy talking to her younger brother. The smells from the kitchen are always delicious and everyone seems to be having a good time.

My least favorite part of being a Dining Chair is when they gather to celebrate a holiday. Because the dining room is filled to capacity with people and their laughter, that’s when all the strange looking, miss-matched ones show up. You know the ones I mean—the padded, red vinyl kitchen chair from the breakfast nook, the saddleback stool twins from the family room downstairs and even a computer desk chair with casters for goodness sake! She really doesn’t belong! It bothers me that they don’t match. But I suppose I shouldn’t mind—the more the merrier! And I have to admit, we all do have fun around the dining table, who just loves being the center of attention at a holiday gathering.

Even if I say so myself, a Pastel Dining Set from Cymas Stores is a good investment. Providing a place for loved ones to gather for holidays, other special occasions or “everyday” meals, your dining room furniture is an integral part of a lifetime of memories.

When in Rome: Cymax Goes Green

Tiberius, one of Rome’s greatest emperors, was not a really well-liked fellow; in fact he was known for being the “gloomiest of men”. No, not a popular guy at all, but Tiberius was smart: he ate his vegetables. On top of his political failures and bad reputation, Tiberius was known for eating a cucumber every day.

If you have ever tried to grow your own vegetables in a plot at the back of your house, you will know how hard it is to produce cucumbers all year round. So, in order for Tiberius to get his daily dose of vegetables, he would’ve had to have paid someone for it. A dealer. A Roman vegetable dealer.

Roman vegetable dealers were probably not as uncommon as you might think. They had the means to produce fruits, vegetables, flowers and other plants year-round in greenhouse-like structures. Greenhouses have been around in some form or another since ancient Roman times, and having survived through and thrived over time since 9th century BC, today’s greenhouse are better than ever. The development and advancement of the greenhouse has been impressive, but the basics remain the same… depend on Mother Nature.

The natural equation: Sun + glass or plastic = successful gardening. It sounds simple, and it can be. At Cymax, you will find the right greenhouse to meet your needs, whether it is for your backyard in the suburbs, your farmhouse acreage, or your business. With the convenience of online shopping, you will find greenhouses from quality manufacturers like Solexx and FlowerHouse. Choose a small eight by eight foot greenhouse for smaller gardening projects or a massive sixteen by twenty foot greenhouse conservatory for larger plants and even trees – you will find these, and every size in between, at Cymax.

Greenhouses let in solar radiation and trap the energy produced by this process to heat up the inside of the structure. Good for the environment and easy on you, greenhouses make cultivation simple and efficient. If you are wondering how to reduce energy and do your part to ride the green wave, Cymax offers an abundance of ways to help preserve our precious Earth.

Shop online for durable, quality greenhouses at a great price, and you will also find accessories to help with your horticultural journey. Greenhouse heaters, fluorescent grow light systems and heat mats aid in keeping your plants healthy and safe. At Cymax, you can also shop for thermostats and even solar powered vent openers. You can even choose from different panel thicknesses, to personalize your greenhouse to match your environment.

Think of it: A fresh cucumber every day, from your very own greenhouse… now that is worth a taste, would you not agree? I believe Tiberius would.

Bored of your Boardroom? Spice it up with Office Furniture

Bored of boardroom meetings that seem to go on and on? The scene usually looks like this: The donuts and weak coffee dwindle slowly while the guest presenter repeats the same ideas as the last guy, only in about fifteen different ways. You can feel you neighbor’s breath on you because there is not enough room for everyone at the table and the presenter keeps fumbling to keep their papers from falling off the make-shift desk that’s been impractically placed in the far corner of the room. To top everything off, the projector buzzes too loudly for anyone to concentrate and the only thing that is truly keeping everyone from nodding off is their utter discomfort in the circa-1980’s office chairs. If any of this sounds familiar, your office boardroom definitely needs some sprucing up.

The best place to find good, quality boardroom tables and office chairs is at Cymax, where online shopping makes your furnishing job easy, so you can concentrate on the job that you are actually employed to do. At Cymax, you will also be able to find high quality projectors which will eliminate fuzzy pictures and the need for everyone to squint to see them. As well as projector mounts, so that you won’t have to rely on stacking the perfect amount of books underneath your old projector. Try treating your presenters with a lectern, complete with a large reading surface, a shelf, and caster wheels so that nobody has to shuffle around.

At Cymax, find a conference table that everyone will enjoy sitting at, perhaps one with a wide presentation top, a slab base and optional electronics modules. Choose from a large variety of top colors, base colors, edge colors – you can even feature three colors on one table. You can also have the option of where you would like the power and communication modules placed, so that there will not be any loose or disorderly cords hanging about the table.

Embellish your coworkers to office chairs that are comfortable, ones that nobody will complain about, no matter how long the meeting is. Adjustable ergonomic office chairs on caster wheels are perfect for boardrooms. Your staff may fall asleep, saddled in comfort, but at least they will not fidget around and get on everyone else’s nerves. If you have surprise guests or just not enough office chairs, stock up on stacking chairs that can be stored as easily as they can be brought out.

The weak coffee problem – and the side-effect of sleepy colleagues – can be rectified by a fashionable coffee maker a generous 1.5 liter capacity, pumping out enough coffee to keep the entire room buzzing with tons of constructive ideas and plenty of caffeine.

At Cymax, find lighting, hutches, storage cabinets, computer armoires, bookcases, and other office furniture to make your office as comfy as you can. You spend most of your days at work, after all, so make it as relaxing as possible for all employees and office guests. At Cymax, we also know how busy your days can be, so we make it easier for you to get what you need with online shopping that can be delivered right to your office. It’s just a day’s work for us.

Fitness Equipment is Summer’s Best Friend

Whether you’re still shaking off the effects of winter hibernation couch potato style or you’re in denial that Bathing Suit Season a.k.a Summer is just around the corner, many us have difficulties with following a regular exercise program. For those of us who think bench pressing a bag of flour at the grocery store or balancing a three-year old on one hip is enough of a workout, Cymax Stores offers a range of fitness equipment sure to fit almost everyone’s lifestyle.

The good news is that many health care and fitness professionals point out that an exercise program doesn’t have to be high tech or intensive or even require an expensive investment in order to be effective. A little exercise goes a long way to contributing to our overall well-being. Even if you don’t want ripped abs or a buff body competition style, there are a wide variety of exercise gizmos and machines that will add a little fun and motivation to your exercise plan.

Geared to being comfortable and user-friendly, exercise bikes come in a variety of styles, sizes and colors and offer a number of different features. The popular treadmill is a favorite piece of fitness equipment for those who want to start out nice and easy. Many kinds of treadmills can be folded up and stored out of sight. They can include electronics displays, handy holders for water bottles and programmable controls to customize your workout. Great for exercising the muscles of the lower body and for burning calories, stair steppers or stair climbers are also another popular way of getting into shape.

Then there are the elliptical machines that conveniently combine the benefits of an exercise bike, a treadmill and a stair stepper. Since these three types of workouts are low impact, an elliptical machine is a good choice for people who would benefit from exercise but who are reluctant to begin a fitness program because they suffer from joint-related conditions.

For those who do want a more traditional style body building regime, a basic workout bench might be a good place to start. Or if you need something a little more challenging, a home gym that includes a variety of exercise options would be the perfect choice.

Whatever you’re into—or not into as the case may be—online shopping at Cymax Stores is the ideal way to take your time and browse for the perfect piece of fitness equipment that will get you in shape for summer.