![]() An afternoon spent on the IKEA Hackers website gave me the foundation to get started on the design. A large number of people were putting together various IKEA products from their large catalog to design a custom desk that not only doesn’t cost a lot but is easy to assemble and looks pretty nice. Aesthetically speaking I would not like this and I wanted something more permanent, but my old desk was a glass surfaced ‘L’ shaped workstation that didn’t lend itself well to this approach either.Ī third option appeared after a little more research which was to build a custom desk, but at a manageable cost and without the need for a crate of woodworking tools and an apprenticeship in furniture building. The cheaper, but less ideal route used by many others was to simply take my current desk and raise it up on blocks of some sort. As much as I liked the idea of a purpose-built solution this was too high of a cost for a small desk that wouldn’t suit my needs without some compromise. These can run from $500 (like the UpLift Desk) to over $1200 (like the Anthro Elevate) and are typically not a very large surface either. ![]() The easier, but more expensive route was to opt for a purpose-build standing desk, some of which are motorized for alternating between sitting and standing. Some online research pointed me towards a couple of popular options which ran the entire spectrum from nearly free to costing almost a thousand dollars. Moving into a new home last fall seemed like as good an excuse as any to give this a shot, but I needed to a place to start. Any spouts of back pain I’ve had over the last number of years are now completely gone after only a few months of using my new desk. Most importantly I’ve found that it is not that standing is technically better than sitting for the same long periods of time but instead the standing workspace effectively untethers me from the chair and allows me to just move around more, either just pacing while on an audio conference call or leaving the office for a few minutes to take occasional breaks. There are numerous articles online touting the health benefits of standing versus sitting all day long. ![]() BackgroundĪ few coworkers of mine who had previously converted to a standing desk, primarily Mike Stacy, had me convinced to do the same for my home office as my posture was typically poor and the ergonomics of my desk where really never quite what I wanted. As I originally got the idea by looking at a few other custom-built standing desks online I decided to document the process in case anyone else wishes to build something similar to what I did. After spending a Sunday morning upgrading my PC and rewiring my home office I recently tweeted a photo of the end result and quickly had a number of questions about where I got my standing desk.
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