Whilst I’ve worked from home on an off for many years and have a really good office setup, the COVID-19 work from home situation prompted my wife and I to reassess our setup and make it more comfortable. We got some office partitioning to help reduce noise, especially when we’re both on the phone. Jo also purchased some noise reduction foam panels, because apparently I’m still too noisy on the phone! But most of all we were looking at standing desks. We looked at a few different models, but none really fitted all our requirements. And I didn’t want to buy something for the sake of it, and then not be happy with it. So I decided to build my own.
I treated this like any IT project. First I needed to define the requirements, which included some research on subjects like width and ergonomics. I also looked at other DIY projects on Pinterest to get some other ideas.