DIY Standing Desk Guide

WorkWhileStanding and WorkWhileWalking has long been the premier site for those seeking to build their own standing desk. Definitely check out our DEFINITIVE comparison review of standalone base frames, with links to detailed reviews on all the popular models from iMovR (Lander, Vigor, Freedom), Fully (Jarvis), Human Solutions (UpLift), GeekDesk, MultiTable and Autonomous, among others.

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DIY Standing Desk: Choosing The Right Base
Planning to build a sit-to-stand desk or treadmill desk with your own desktop lumber? There are some great options available. We'll take you through the pluses and minuses of each model. Understandably, DIY'ers are always looking to find the lowest cost option for any components they need to buy versus make. In the case of electric height-adjustable bases spending a little more, as a rule of thumb, is going to buy you a quieter, faster, heavier-lifting, more reliable desk base, a longer warranty period, and a longer "stroke" (total distance between top end and bottom end).
 
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Choosing the Right Desk Top for Your Standing Desk
We asked our staff experts who've been lab testing standing desks for many years to create this guide, to help you wade through all the terminology and explain how each desk top type is manufactured, its pros and cons, and the price range you should expect to see for it.
 
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iMovR Freedom DIY Standing Desk Base Review
The Freedom standing desk base is iMovR's answer to low-cost Asian imports, leveraging design ingenuity and a great deal of investment in robotic manufacturing to combat the labor cost advantages China has. Now for only very slightly more than an Asian import you can get an American-made product with similar performance but built to last much longer, and backed by a 10-year warranty and domestic customer support.
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iMovR Lander DIY Standing Desk Frame Review
The Lander’s lifters are the most advanced ones made today, based on Linak DL-6 linear actuators. Highly precise, brawny (365 lb lift capacity), fast (1.6 inches per second transit speed), and remarkably quiet, these come with a ten year factory warranty—they’re that good. T
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Taming of the Snarl: A WorkWhileWalking Primer on Cable Management

Relax, a swarm of snakes has not spontaneously decided to attack your desk. Nor has a forest of exceptionally flexible bamboo sprung up around its legs – no, fellow deskers, what you’re seeing is a workstation in dire need of some cable management.

Keeping your spaghetti straight is important no matter how you’re working. Carefully organizing cables helps keep track of what powers what, makes the office a safer place, and keeps your workstation neat and efficiently arranged. Besides, it just looks nice – well kept cables are pretty enough to have inspired a borderline-fetishist group of cable control enthusiasts (welcome to the internet).

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