Work-from-home desk setup
The surface, the chair and the height. Get these wrong and nothing else on this page helps.
What actually matters
- The chair matters more than the desk, and it is the one thing worth buying once rather than twice.
- Desk height decides where your elbows sit. Most fixed desks are built for people taller than average.
- Depth matters more than width if you use a monitor: you need the screen far enough away to look at comfortably.
- A sit-stand desk only helps if you actually stand. A cheap one you raise twice a day beats an expensive one you never touch.
Picks
No specific picks in here yet — I only list things once I've actually formed an opinion about them. The points above are what I'd go on in the meantime.
Also in the desk
Kit is the easy part. The awkward part is usually the process.
Buying a label printer fixes an afternoon. If the thing eating your week is the admin around the orders rather than the packing itself, that's the part I build.
Tell me what's eating the week