If you're very careful, you should be able to remove the nails from the cardboard backing without causing significant damage to the cardboard. That may make it difficult to tighten the side panel to the bottom shelf and leave the whole thing a little wobbly. It will help ease those knees/ankles/heels that aren’t used to standing like this.Įnjoy your standing desk! I, for one, have found that the absence of the confinement of a chair results in a significantly increased incidence of spontaneous dance parties while catching up on email or browsing ye old internets.It looks like you may have damaged the side panel here: I also recommend getting a good thick floor mat to stand on.
#Ikea book shelf single shelf desk mod#
I’m probably going to mod mine more - mount some stuff on the inside, get a pair of doors at the local salvage yard so I can close it up and hide the mess. The desk space goes to my laptop and mouse, a couple jars of pens/pencils/highlighters, and a textbook-on-a-bookstand, as well as things that will eventually be mounted on the walls or ceiling of the bookcase, like a whiteboard calendar and the computer speakers.Īnd there you go! This battleworkstation is fully operational… and a delightfully simple IKEA hack to boot. I also keep my stapler, three-hole-punch, and box of notecards on a lower shelf, since they’re occasional-use items and thus don’t need the prime desktop real estate. For me, that’s all textbooks and binders, which have the added benefit(?) of being opaque, and thus blocking any view of that cord situation snaking down the back.
I also tried both a clip-on light and a regular desk lamp, and ultimately went with the regular lamp placed on top of the bookcase, but that’s a matter of personal preference. This particular bookcase has a half-inch gap between the back of the shelves and its back wall, and this is the perfect place to run the cables through for the speakers and such. I’ve got a power strip specifically for the cords for the laptop charger, the computer speakers, and the desk lamp. Make sure it’s a height you really can work with - I end up with the base of my hands resting on my laptop and my elbows hanging down naturally by my sides. My bookshelf doesn’t have the option to adjust shelf heights, though if I really wanted it at a different level I could drill new holes for the pegs. Decide what height you want your workstation to be, and remove all shelves above that.The one I used originally came from IKEA. Clean it out, too, if it’s getting kind of nasty. Take a bookshelf with removable shelves (they don’t have to be adjustable, but they do need to be able to come out) and clear it off.I’m a hands-on, DIY kind of chick, but for this hack, you don’t have to be.
To this point, not a single item was purchased (though that’ll change, once I get one of those nice gel-y standing mats) nor a single tool used. This is an embarrassingly simple project. It’s awesome.) So, I decided to work with what we had - and what we had was a bookshelf overflowing with crap.
However, I’m the kind of person who gets an idea and then throws an internal, Verruca-like fit of “But I want it now!” and our tool library was closed for the next few days, inhibiting my ability to build anything. I had plans to build a workstation mounted to the wall and use “invisible” floating bookshelves to hold all my med school books and make it look like that massive stack of textbooks was holding up the desk. Being a full-time medical student myself - studying to be an osteopathic physician, no less - I was painfully aware (pun!) of my poor body mechanics and how studying for hours on end, sitting hunched over a desk, was hurting my back and contributing to my stress levels. These days there are all sorts of people - from health professionals to personal trainers to workplace efficiency specialists - touting the benefits of standing desks over sitting.
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