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HELP!: Home office looking like doctor's office!

2 months ago

I found this lift table online. It gets great reviews, is what I need, but happened to see it in person in my emergency vet's office yesterday. It is so medical looking and absolutely depressing to think about putting this in my home office. Where else can I find something like this that is less clinical? Can I alter this in someway to make it look less clinical?

I need something that can adjust to 42" tall, pneumatic system as I'm not strong enough to manually change height, and it stable yet has wheels to position around my room as needed.

I'll stash it to the right of the mirror door. Plan to raise screen with swing arm so it can be used standing with laptop on little lift table, or pulled down to my desk height. Note, I have a lot of pain, need to transition from sitting to standing frequently, and am working with a PT. While this may not look like a fancy ergonomic set up, it does work for my body.

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amystoller
last month
Have you considered a tablecloth?
Kendrah thanked amystoller
amystoller
last month
I have no needle skills at all, but I wonder whether a cloth cover could be made height-adjustable, in the way some window shades are. I’ve seen you give lovely, helpful advice to others here. I hope you can find what you need.
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Olychick
last month
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What about an adjustable table base that you can attach a nice top to? Could be nice wood or marble or granite, copper tray, etc, either square, rectangle or circle? https://tablebases.com/lift-base-black-stainless-steel-table-base-adjustable-height

eta: oops not rollable...similar with a cheap top that you could replace:

This is on $55 on the big river:

adjustable half moon
Kilian Diana
last month
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I can simply recommend you, as a person who has made his office at home, do not spare on it, I advise you to buy https://www.progressiveautomations.ca/pages/table-lifts table lift mechanism here, you will only thank yourself for it, because you will stop waking up with a headache, personally I have done so, so I recommend you on this matter do not save money.
Kendrah
Original Author
6 days ago
I went the table cloth route. It looks great in the down position. When I raise it to work it looks a bit silly, but who cares - I just lower it when I'm done working.

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