You are not logged in. Please login or register.
The place for random one-off questions that you want help with.
No judgement.
There are no stupid questions.
If you can help with a question posed, quote the question in your response and help!
I'll start us off.
Recommendations for a good office chair with proper back support for someone of a generally larger proportion?
I use a sofa.
Recommendations for a good office chair with proper back support for someone of a generally larger proportion?
Maybe you should try Rush Limbaugh's EIB ("Excellence in Broadcasting") executive chair. It definitely holds a bigger man and has a special secret compartment for stashing Oxys. Yours for only $499.95!
In all seriousness, I've found that the best ones tend to be leather, well padded, have a headrest that actually reaches all the way up to your head, and are in that price range. I got mine from this website, which has a section for big & tall.
The Wirecutter recommends some very expensive chairs ($800+), but I'm very happy with my Karsten executive chair from Staples ($170).
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Karston- … _SS1058656
EDIT: They also have a specific "big and tall" category.
Last edited by Zarban (2014-04-07 03:27:13)
You need this so you can work your core while you work:
Edit:
(I suppose you can also milk it when appropriate.)
Last edited by drewjmore (2014-04-07 17:23:47)
+1
Anyone got tips for a DIY desk? MY current desk is too small, and only JUST holds a 27" iMac, with inches to spare on each side(inches from the width of the computer, not the base, obviously), but I'd like a larger one that can serve as a workstation, i.e. have place for a camera setup, sound recording setup and perhaps even some drawing.
I've seen people use leca blocks(large "bricks") and doors, but I'd like to make something a bit more aesthetically more appealing. I'm thinking large here, but I'll draw the line at 6 feet wide, 2-2.5 feet deep.
These shelf brackets, screwed at every possible interval into the wall studs:
Add whatever board you can scrounge, maybe yank the desktop off the old desk you're shitcanning.
Leaves the floor nice and clear around the desk, and you can usually get another shelf or two above the main work table.
Best desk I ever had was in college, when I raised twin bunk beds up on risers and used a hollow-core door to convert the bottom bunk into a huge desk.
Today I've gone minimalist, with an AirDesk and a mousing surface made from an oak TV tray top.
http://www.airdesks.com/
(warning: needs added stability; I've clamped the post to a side table)
Drew, I'm renting, so mounting a desk to the wall isn't really an option.
Zarban: BIG, not ridiculously tiny.
Hmm. What stops you from just buying a desk that fits your style?
Budget?
Mostly, yeah, and I've yet to find one in Norway that fits said style.
The biggest/simplest/best value would probably be two nice filing cabinets or base cabinets or end tables and a countertop that fits your decor. That could be as long as you want.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_sc_1?rh= … 1397150266
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ … se+cabinet
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ … nd%20table
Countertops are nice because they're designed to have a finished look right from the factory. And for $50-$100 you can get an 8' length and factory-made angles to make a corner desk of any size.
http://www.homedepot.com/b/Kitchen-Coun … cod?NCNI-5
And they're designed to have holes drilled in them, so you can easily add cable grommets instead of faucets.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ … sk+grommet
If it's so long that it sags a little in the middle, you can add a table leg. Or you could even use only legs without cabinets.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_1?r … 2941120011
You might even get the countertop store to cut a hole as if you were going to put in a sink, but instead install a glass table top. (Support it underneath with small blocks screwed to the sides of the hole.) That would make a great surface for drawing, especially with a light underneath.
Last edited by Zarban (2014-04-10 17:18:19)
<stinkeye> Yes, well, I'll provide the most helpful solution next time, Zarban! Next time.
That's a really good point, Zarban. Countertops. I think I can even get that off of work for a good price, too. We sell kitchens there too, so getting one shouldn't be difficult.
My boss had a couple of filing cabinets and a solid door for a while, worked really well and had a lot of space.
I've got 4 barstools with an oversized door myself, but it's all piled up with aging PC components in the basement. My crafty wife made this here fancy built-in unit.
I'm doing some home renovations that include finishing a room over the garage with 4-foot knee walls on either side. I love odd architectural details, so I'm trying to think of ways to use the sloped ceiling and space under the eaves. I already plan on a few cabinets that will be built into the knee wall and maybe a huge drawer containing a trundle bed. But I'd love to hear any more unusual ideas.
This will very likely be my new bedroom, but I'd be open to incorporating an element or two that would be interesting to a family with kids who would be the next buyer. (Hence the trundle bed idea; I don't host many sleepovers.)
Pinterest's ideas are basically variations on built-in cabinets.
https://www.pinterest.com/terrarosa/eaves/
My bedroom growing up had kneewalls. We punched through the drywall and outfitted the space as kid's only forts. I can still remember the smell of the insulat...*Cough-hack-hack*
My dad did something similar when he did the upstairs (they bought the house with the second floor just an open attic: I remember walking to the new bathroom having to avoid the holes in the floor because he didn't have all the plywood down). My room had two "cubby holes" in the wall on either side of my bed, which could fit either two or three small kids or all our toys and games. My sister's room had one cubby hole, and a built in bookcase. The fun part of the cubby holes was, Dad being Dad, he didn't do more work than was really needed. On either side of the entrance, not only could you see the exposed wall studs but the hole where he ran the wiring up to the light switch was open, so small toys could be lost down into the first floor walls. Exciting!
Yeah, hidey holes and secret playrooms seem to be pretty popular ideas on Pinterest too. I like the idea of a secret door under the eaves and into the adjoining hall closet, maybe.
You reminded me of something. The two second floor bedrooms were on either end of the house. We each had a closet on the same side of the house as the stairway. Dad linked the two closets with a hidden storage area, running along the front of the house behind the stairwell.
Maybe you can link two bedrooms. Even if it's just you in the house now, think of the stories the next owners will come up with. Particularly if you don't tell them about it when you sell 
You reminded me of something. The two second floor bedrooms were on either end of the house. We each had a closet on the same side of the house as the stairway. Dad linked the two closets with a hidden storage area, running along the front of the house behind the stairwell.
Maybe you can link two bedrooms. Even if it's just you in the house now, think of the stories the next owners will come up with. Particularly if you don't tell them about it when you sell
I always wanted to that! I like that idea
*conspires to figure out a way in his new house*
A house I lived in way, way back, had that too. Two bedrooms connected via storage space. It was cool, because both bedrooms were mine(only child at that point), so I'd go to sleep in one room, feel like sleeping in the other, and moved across them without ever knowing. My mom must've been so pissed at me, she never knew which room I was in when it was time for school!
I always dreamed about having secret pathways in my ultimate manor sort of house. Thick walls with paths inside, to fuck with guests.
Closest I can get is the current owners of our soon-to-be-ours house saying, "Screw it," knocking down the connecting wall and making a massive master bedroom. The house I grew up in had connected closest but the closest my sister and I got with that was just poking a wire hangar through the drywall so we could talk through it, which was entirely unnecessary but hey, we were kids.
Does anyone know of a good <$100 general purpose handheld camcorder with decent audio quality? I've been looking at getting something small and dedicated for vlogging purposes that I can use when I can't use my main camera.
Ideally I'd love to find something basically like a cell phone with just the camera part...and without the dynamic framerate...that's bad.
Powered by PunBB, supported by Informer Technologies, Inc.
Currently installed 9 official extensions. Copyright © 2003–2009 PunBB.
