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Standing wall desk (plus plant wall)

I work from home, and I wanted to have a standing desk. I also wanted to be able to share the room with my wife, and I didn’t really need a large desk to set lots of papers on. I just needed a keyboard, and a monitor, and maybe a place to set a few things.

Ergotron Standing Desk

So I got this ergotron desk. Or I guess it’s not really even a desk, it’s just a thing to hold the monitor and keyboard. After spending six months of it I can confidently say that it is working well.

My one complaint to Ergotron was just in their mounting directions for taller people; I think I would have mounted it a few inches lower. In the directions it said if you’re taller that you should raise it a few inches beyond their standard recommended height. But I think the recommended height  (I can’t number what it is right now) was correct even though I’m 6’1″. The CPU holder is also not meant to hold a laptop, but I put in a book as a spacer and it works fine.

I ended up getting a drafting chair. initially that was because I mounted too high. But I might have gotten it anyway, it is nice to be sitting up higher so that I don’t have to raise and lower the screen as much when switching between sitting and standing.

The shelving and the self watering pots are all by IKEA.

White and Ambient Noise

This is a curation of white and ambient noise, all from freesound except for the first one made by the open source Android app Chroma Doze. Citations and credits below the break — some have creative commons limitations, please check the freesound citation.

  1. Low White Noise, mp3, one hour.
  2. Ocean sound, mp3, three hours.
  3. Urban rainstorm, ogg, one hour.
  4. Village Morning, mp3, two hours.
  5. Midnight Woods Cottage, mp3, over three hours.
  6. Sunny Point Cafe, mp3, 0.5 hours.
  7. Coast By Night, mp3, 2.8 hours.

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