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Ikea Hack: Creating A Standing Workstation

February 5, 2014 by Hearts&Sharts 16 Comments

 I have two problems:  1. I am the owner of a voluminous caboose; 2. When I sit down at my computer and click a link, it seems like several hours pass in a matter of seconds and then I wonder where my day has gone.  If you’ve ever been on Pinterest, I know you know what I am talking about.  “What did you do today, babe?”  “I clicked all the links on the internet”.   My solution: Get up off my end-table-arse and create a standing workstation.

Ikea Hack | Create A Standing Workstation

 I have been wanting to try this for a while and after spotting this fabric I was inspired to get up off my butt and give my craft room a makeover.  Raising my workstation was the first step.  Bonus: Replace chair-dancing with actual dancing.  Here is my workstation before:

Ikea Hack | Creating A Standing Workstation

This is the Vika Amon table from Ikea.  I got the whole setup for $100 bucks on Craigslist a few years ago from a cake shop.  Walking into a cake shop with a hundo in cash is a dangerous thing for a big bootied babe like myself, but they were closed for business and refused to sell me any cake.  Fine.  I’ll just take the table, then.

I wasn’t sure how to go about this but after a phone call to Dad, I had a plan.  PVC pipe! I measured the legs (2″ diameter) and headed up to HD to get some 2″ PVC pipe.  I wanted the final table height to be 41″ (it was 27″ at it’s original height) and the tabletop itself is 1″ thick, so I had to get 5 lengths of 40″ each.  Done.  The sweet dude at HD even cut it for me.  And get this:  It was less than $15 bucks!! Score.

Ikea Hack | Creating A Standing Workstation

Got home, flipped ‘er over and popped off the little black feet using a flat head screwdriver.  Dog hair courtesy of Howard.

Howard The Hound

Namath ain’t got nothin’ on this fur coat, yo!

Then I slid the PVC pipe over the metal table legs.

Ikea Hack | Creating A Standing Workstation

Some of them slid right on, but I had to use a mallet on a couple of them to get them all the way down.

Flipped ‘er back over…

Ikea Hack | Creating A Standing Workstation

Zaaaaaang! Check that out! You know what that is?!  That is a TWERK-station!   No more chair-dancing! No more sitting on my bum while surfing/working/blogging/photoshopping!  Hopefully this is the first step to a smaller backside.  So far, I am loving it.  A word of advice: If you choose to create your own standing twerk-station, make sure you don’t hit your chin on the table when it’s time to drop it low.  Go call the govenah!

PVC-Deez nuts!

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Comments

  1. Bridget from Cali says

    February 17, 2015 at 3:51 am

    God bless you! My bestie has to see things to believe it . Your post was what finally convinced him to take the leap of faith. He has the similar IKEA work surface with the thicker cylindrical wooden legs (instead of the metal). He’s a freelance editor who has been dying to get a standing desk, but the prices are way too outrageous (especially for something he wasn’t sure he would even like). He didn’t trust any of my creative ideas to fashion a standing desk by repurposing pieces we already have on hand. I had even suggested using PVC pipes in the same manner. It wasn’t until I found your tutorial that he was finally willing to move ahead.

    We ultimately purchased 4 – 40″ lengths of the 3″ pvc pipe. It was about $25 with a 15% off coupon. (The best value was 1 -10′ piece @ $17.64 . We had them cut this section in 3 equal pieces. For the final leg, we were forced to buy 4′ @ $2.20/ft. That gave us a 40″ piece and an 8″ piece. ) We followed the rest of your instructions. Unlike your great experience, it was highly disappointing to learn that his legs were too loosey goosey. With the risers, his whole unit was now highly unstable. He was ready to give up, but some redneck ingenuity saved the day. We rolled two of the legs with leftover cushioned insulation tape. When it ran out, we wrapped the remaining legs with a towel we tore in strips and covered with regular packing tape. Once we finagled on the new legs, it was both snug and stable! Hallelujah! Let the twerking (or his case tap dancing) commence!

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    • Hearts & Sharts says

      February 17, 2015 at 10:26 am

      Whoooohooooo!!!!! So glad to hear it! Thank you so much for sharing, Bridget!

      Reply
  2. chris aka monkey says

    October 3, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    love this, i would hit my chin for sure then would not be able to get off floor….you are too freaking funny xx

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    • Hearts & Sharts says

      October 5, 2014 at 8:43 am

      Hhahaha! Thank you, Chris!

      Reply
  3. Erin @ DIY on the Cheap says

    February 7, 2014 at 12:09 am

    Very clever — love it! I should probably have a standing workstation too because I have the same problem. I sit down at the computer and the next thing I know, hours have passed and I’ve got hardly anything to show for it!

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    • Hearts & Sharts says

      February 7, 2014 at 1:45 pm

      Thanks Erin!

      Reply
  4. Jenna says

    February 6, 2014 at 11:36 am

    Wow! Love this – so functional!

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  5. Amy W says

    February 6, 2014 at 2:57 am

    Ha. Love it. I’m not as fancy as you with a lovely workstation, but I totally leave my laptop on the kitchen counter and have been known to go ‘from the window, to the wall’ during my “work time”.

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    • Hearts & Sharts says

      February 6, 2014 at 11:50 am

      Hahahha! Love it!

      Reply
  6. Amanda says

    February 5, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    You are a genius.

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    • Hearts & Sharts says

      February 5, 2014 at 11:13 pm

      I love you Mandaa.

      Reply
  7. Alexis @ Persia Lou says

    February 5, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Lol – twerk station. And I know all about clicking all the links. I am a seriously talented link clicker.

    Reply
    • Hearts & Sharts says

      February 5, 2014 at 10:34 pm

      My legs hurt from desk-dancing today! 🙂

      Reply

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