Building a standing desk that’s adjustable is a solution to my work-at-home office situation. With my life as a carpenter, author and business owner, I spend long hours at my desk banging away at my keyboard.
When it came time to upgrade my old hand-me-down writing surface, I already knew what I wanted in a new work space.
What do I want in a standing desk?
First, I wanted to customize the desk’s size to the spare bedroom in my home that serves as my World Headquarters, or what normal people call their home office.
Second, I wanted adjustable height. My body doesn’t like being stuffed in a chair with my arms crimped around the keyboard all day. So a desk whose height gives me the choice of sitting on a stool or standing to fire out e-mails, jot notes, or field a call eases my lower back pain and carpel tunnel symptoms just thinking about it.
Finally, I wanted to break down the unit somewhat so it wouldn’t take an entire rugby team to lift it and the theoretical geometry department at MIT to figure out how to get it up the stairs.
Click below to read more about how to build this standing desk on Extreme How-To.
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Nice chair. I like the this. It ties in well with the desk.That is such an attractive chair. I moved my office into a sitting room my family uses and have wanted to update the traditional office chair I use. My desk is an antique and the armed swivel chair really isn’t a good fit.