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Floor desk
2024-Mar-12, Tuesday 09:26
I'd had the same desk since roughly 2007, now pretty wobbly and with a broken keyboard tray. I just did a quick search trying to find a picture to show what it looks like, and I can't--maybe the model is very out of style. I've also had the same computer chair and one of the arms is falling apart.
Anyway, I've been wanting to switch to a floor desk for years, something like this. But of course, you can't get something like that in America because there is zero market for it and overseas shipping would be 4x the price of the item. Even online, when people talk about sitting on the floor, you always see comments about how the commenter could never sit on the floor because it would hurt their knees and back (probably true), and how the originally poster shouldn't keep sitting on the floor because they too will ruin their knees and back (haha do they not realize that Asia exists?). Well, even when I sit on a computer chair, I sit cross-legged and I only support my lower back against the chair. The whole point of sitting is to be fidgeting constantly, moving into a new position as the previous one becomes uncomfortable.
My current idea is to get a desk top that's something like this one, and then use storage cubes (something like this) for the corners, with regular coffee table legs for the rest of the support, then maybe some similar boxes on top. Keyboard tray in the inner corner so that it'll be at the natural height of my arms (maybe a foot off the floor). Plenty of room for two monitors (a third if I get one) and my work laptop and I'll finally get to sit on the floor like I've wanted to for a while.
Anyway, I've been wanting to switch to a floor desk for years, something like this. But of course, you can't get something like that in America because there is zero market for it and overseas shipping would be 4x the price of the item. Even online, when people talk about sitting on the floor, you always see comments about how the commenter could never sit on the floor because it would hurt their knees and back (probably true), and how the originally poster shouldn't keep sitting on the floor because they too will ruin their knees and back (haha do they not realize that Asia exists?). Well, even when I sit on a computer chair, I sit cross-legged and I only support my lower back against the chair. The whole point of sitting is to be fidgeting constantly, moving into a new position as the previous one becomes uncomfortable.
My current idea is to get a desk top that's something like this one, and then use storage cubes (something like this) for the corners, with regular coffee table legs for the rest of the support, then maybe some similar boxes on top. Keyboard tray in the inner corner so that it'll be at the natural height of my arms (maybe a foot off the floor). Plenty of room for two monitors (a third if I get one) and my work laptop and I'll finally get to sit on the floor like I've wanted to for a while.
