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Standing Desk

Feb 2024

I built this simple standing desk from some scrap wood I had sitting around. This was a one-night project motivated by procrastination.

I've wanted a standing desk for a while, but never wanted to spend the money to buy one. The opportunity to build one presented itself one night as I worked on something completely unrelated. I kept thinking "it would be nice to have a standing desk right now," and I realized I had a scrap of a shelf board left over from an earlier project. I looked around and managed to scrounge together some scrap pieces of 2x1 boards barely long enough to build a miniature table with corresponding side rails and legs. I ended up putting the whole thing together with only minimal hand tools, a few clamps, and an improvised square, using the concrete basement floor as my workbench. It's certainly not perfect, especially considering how hastily I designed and put it together, but it works well enough to get the job done.