Office Inspiration: Building a Standing Desk

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Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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February 15th, 2014

As a person who works from home, I definitely understand the importance of having a versatile workspace, and have long loved the idea of building myself a custom standing desk. (I’m short, so this would solve both the counters-are-too-high problem and the ow-my-back-hurts-from-leaning-over problem when I’m doing non-seated projects at my worktable. Perfect!) If you’ve been thinking the same thing, you’ll definitely want to check out this fantastic space-saving standing desk tutorial from Emma at A Beautiful Mess!