At
the start of lockdown, I bought an office chair. It had non-adjustable armrests,
and they were a bit too high. In order to be able to fit them underneath my
desk, I had to lower the chair by a ludicrous amount. That just wasn't good. Since
moving my entire office home, I have been using my University chair. But having
a chair without a purpose seemed silly. And as the armrests come off, I thought
I maybe could tweak them. I could just put something in place of the armrests
that wouldn't stick out so high. So I set to work. I took one armrest off and replaced it with
bits of skirting board. So far so good. Unfortunately they could twist, so when
I removed the other armrest the whole system sagged. I could have predicted that,
actually! Oh well. I went back to the drawing board. I took a piece of left-over
floorboard from the garage and tried that. It was a bit of a faff to firstly
align the drill holes perfectly, and secondly make depressions in the wood so
the bolts could be sunk in a bit, but in the end I had an office chair with a
fixed back that fit underneath the desk! And if I ever want that chair to look
official again, I can just put the armrests back. So I say that's a success!
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First attempt: not a success |
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Better!
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