Mr. Chairman!

[kevin_standlee]

Having spent most of my twenty years with my current employer at the company's corporate headquarters, I've been through several office moves. At each one, there has been a purge of older office furniture, and I've usually made the most of it. This means my home office is furnished with cast-offs from corporate. Usually these have been serviceable-but-beat-up chairs and the like, and they've lasted a long time. However, I'm a big guy, and hard on chairs. One of the two chairs I got from the last purge failed some months ago, and lately the other one (same design) started to give way. Lisa salvaged parts from the first chair to keep the second one alive, but it was clear that time was short and I needed a new chair. We looked at what was in the big box stores, but they seemed overpriced and under-capacity. Most of them had 225 pound or less capacity, and I weigh 300 pounds.

Yesterday, after collecting the RV from the shop, we went to an office furniture warehouse near Reno airport. Looking around, we found a good, solid chair with a 350 pound capacity, high back, adjustable armrests, and a metal frame (not the plastic frame that the two now-failing older chairs had). The price was pretty good, too, as it was a former showroom display model. For less than the cost of most of the chairs at the OfficeBoxes, I got a better quality chair that feels stronger. Getting it into the RV was a bit of a challenge (for all that the RV is big, it doesn't have much cargo space), but we managed.


When we got home and wrestled the new chair into the living room, travelswithkuma tested the new chair out and pronounced it suitable for occupation. Kuma Bear can use the older chair (shown next to the new one) because he doesn't weigh so much and won't break the old chair.

The only fault I've found so far is that the new chair has less lumbar support, and inasmuch as I am in the chair ten hours a day, that could be an issue. I'll probably get a lumbar-support pillow. Otherwise, it's very comfortable and I'm glad we bought it.

Comments

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

The new chair looks a little like the one I salvaged from work the same as you. But I eventually sprung for a new chair (piggy-backing on what the firm bought). If you can find a spring fair or home show somewhere, you can generally find a good back rest. The fair I went to were selling two for $20, and I use one at home and one at work. There's no label, but I'll see if I can find a picture somewhere.

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

This one looks like what I have, but it's twice the price. http://www.staples.com/Fellowes-Office-Suites-Mesh-Back-Support/product_645282

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the sort of thing. I need to hunt around my Bay Area office; we may have some of them in supplies.