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Recommendations for a good office chair with proper back support for someone of a generally larger proportion?
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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.
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.
<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.
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 
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.
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