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A square the size of a generous bedroom is enough - if you choose the right three pieces and accept the right three constraints.
A 48-inch desk, one really good chair, and a wall-mounted monitor arm. Everything else is optional. Skipping the wall mount is the most common mistake - it buys back almost a square foot of desk surface.
Accept that you cannot have storage at the desk; put it on the perpendicular wall. Accept a single monitor. Accept that the chair must roll under the desk fully - check how much space an office chair needs before you commit to a desk depth.
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Marcus WeiEditor and small-space specialist. Has wedged a working office into every apartment he's ever lived in, including a 9'x9' Brooklyn bedroom.
A 20-minute, step-by-step guide to safely removing an office chair base - plus how to handle a seized gas lift, a hidden retaining clip, or a press-fit base that won't budge.
Three letters - SL, AP, ML - and a stack of marketing copy. Here's what each lumbar mechanism is doing for your spine, and which kind you actually need.
Three working physical therapists, four office workers, one month of telemetry. The data on movement frequency that surprised us.