Markets · Religious & Faith-Based
Spaces for worship, gathering, and remembrance.
Thoughtfully planned environments that support worship, mourning, education, administration, and community gathering — with dignity, function, and durability.
Start a projectFaith-based spaces carry meaning — they have to feel right, hold up for decades, and serve a wide range of moments, from worship to mourning to learning and community. We plan, furnish, and — in our home market — build these environments with the dignity and durability they deserve.
A single sanctuary refresh or a ground-up building — you’re the right size.
From one room to a new facility, you get the same expertise and the same manufacturers. No project is too small to do well.
Dignity, built to last.
Dignity by design
Environments that hold meaning and feel right for the moment — warm, considered, and appropriate to your tradition and your community.
Design, furnish — and build
We plan, specify, and furnish — and in our home market we can general-contract the whole project, including ground-up buildings, so one team carries it from first sketch to final install.
Built to last decades
We specify for the long haul. One faith building we furnished was photographed in 2011 and, fifteen years on, still looks as good as the day it opened.
Sensitive to your community
We listen first. Faith spaces are personal — we bring care, discretion, and respect to every decision.
From the sanctuary to the school.
Worship & Sanctuary
Congregational seating, platform, acoustics, and finishes that serve both the service and the space.
Funeral Homes & Cemetery Buildings
Calm, dignified, durable environments for mourning — including full design-build of new buildings.
Faith-Based Schools
Durable, adaptable classrooms and learning spaces for day schools and seminaries.
Fellowship & Community
Halls and gathering spaces for community life, events, and shared meals.
Administration & Offices
Ergonomic, durable offices and workrooms for clergy and staff.
Reception & Lobby
A warm, dignified welcome for members, families, and visitors.
Buildings that still look new years later.
Built to endure
We specify for the long haul — faith spaces that still look as good years later as the day they opened, because they get used, and loved, for decades.
Design through construction
Beyond furniture: we’ve handled full design-build of faith and funeral facilities — coordinating the plan, the finishes, the furnishings, and the general contracting as one program.
Any size, same care
A single sanctuary refresh or a new building — we scale to the project, and the smallest gets the same expertise and manufacturer access as the largest.
Chicago Jewish Funerals, Skokie.
A 15,000-square-foot chapel with a sleek, modern design that still feels calm and comforting. Two light-filled chapels — one seating 250, one more intimate — a skylit lobby, and private family rooms throughout. The architect designed the interiors; we furnished it throughout, and drew the pieces that had no equivalent on the market — including the rolling pedestals that hold the caskets. Fifteen years on, it still looks as good as the day it opened.
Furniture · Skokie, IL
Outfitting an office or classroom?
For quick needs — staff seating, desks, and accessories you can buy online — no project process required.
Questions, answered.
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Is a single room or a refresh too small a project?
Can you build the building, not just furnish it?
Will you respect our tradition and community?
How long do these spaces hold up?
Working with Applied Ergonomics
What types of projects does Applied Ergonomics work on?
How does the consultation process work?
Do you work with architects and interior designers?
What geographic areas do you serve?
Do you support ongoing facility needs after a project is complete?
We’re here to help.
We read every inquiry and follow up personally to help move your project forward.
Not sure exactly what you need? Tell us the space and the teams who’ll use it, and we’ll bring the options to you. Specifying is what we do.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 847-679-5148.
Phone: 847-679-5148 Email: info@appliedergonomics.com