What Are You Sitting On?

Excellent question! I'm using what sounds like the same $100 special from Staples. I'm curious to know if there is better out there, short of building my own.

A chair. No particular kind.

actually, the seat and back of an old wood chair mounted on top of a couple of plastic Lowes 5 gallon buckets...........one leg broke off of the chair and was about to be junked.

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Oh, yes.

A $2.50 seat pad ( sale price ) from IKEA makes that old wood seat very comfy.

Not nearly as comfy as some chairs, however.............

Made me laugh!

I actually don't have a stool or chair,I prefer to stand at my work bench.

I originally purchased the bench,and meant to pick up some sort of stool along the way,but I was so comfortable standing that I just never got one.Been that way for about 12 years now.

I guess you would call this the "ultimate" desk chair.  But I wouldn't want to spill any paint on it!

http://www.formafurniture.com/product/ekornes-stressless-magic-office-chair/

Cadet Chuck

I guess you would call this the "ultimate" desk chair.  But I wouldn't want to spill any paint on it!

http://www.formafurniture.com/product/ekornes-stressless-magic-office-chair/

....and aprox.  $2,600 less than some Omega Speedmaster watches...........leaves something leftover to spend on a new washer for the little woman.............

I sit on a task (typist chair). It has castors.  Last week when I went to sit down, it rolled out from under me and I went kerplop on the floor!

Don Stauffer

I sit on a task (typist chair). It has castors.  Last week when I went to sit down, it rolled out from under me and I went kerplop on the floor!

That can happen if ya sit too close to the front edge of one of those wheeled chairs, too..........

I'm using a chair I found on the curb on trash day haha works good enough for now, would like to pick up one of the old school drafting chairs if I can ever find a cheap one, not a new China made junk, I'm talking the vintage ones

I too usually stand at my workbench. Its to tall for a regular chair. I originally built it to also serve as a computer building/repair workbench. Don't do much of that anymore and its mainly use for modeling. I do have one of those swivel stools made by Craftsman but I don't use it very often.

The standing idea is well received.  My next bench will be higher for that option.

But my wife wants to buy me a new chair.  So I'm looking at these jeweler's chairs:

You know, my wife stands at work and she swears by it. She's a CPA and has a traditional desk she could sit at if she wanted. She had me build a wooden shelf to put on top of her desk so her work could be at the proper level.  She really likes it.

As for me, I have two office chairs side by side--one for my computer, and one for the bench right next to it.  I need to get rid of one, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Chris

I work at two different heights, mostly at a drafting table. For that I use a tall  stool that I bought with the

Table, perfect height and it swivels. I also work at a repurposed computer bench which sits much lower.for that I use a drummers throne.

I use an old industrial swivel chair, similar to the one in this photo:

except that mine has upholstered seat and back, and the frame is yellow.  I scavenged it from a business that was throwing it out (that's the great thing about driving a pickup truck!).  It puts me at a comfortable height to my bench, and I like the footring.  I also have an old oaken office chair on casters at the bench, but it serves as an extra place to stack kit boxes.

wooden bar stool from walmart lol. cheap and works well for me.

I've got mine from my workplace for free. Got a new one at work to replace my old one since it was going to get tossed out anyways. Score!

My homemade bench is higher than normal desk/table, height recommended for workbenches.  However, my chair is at a normal height.  I like the different view, and eyes being closer to model.

My couch in front of the Tv.  I altered an end table to raise it up so my back won't ache while building.  when i get eye strain and tired I can just lay down LOL

Baseball and modeling at the same time, hard to beat.

Jay Jay

My couch in front of the Tv.  I altered an end table to raise it up so my back won't ache while building.  when i get eye strain and tired I can just lay down LOL

Baseball and modeling at the same time, hard to beat.

............and the roar of the crowd covers up the "vroom ! vroom ! " sounds while we admire the completed models.............

Jay jay I often work  that way  for a lot of stuff. Mike

I have three chairs .

One is a very comfortable Bar stool I got from Chili's .They were re-decorating and so I got the deal of a lifetime .Free . It is well padded too .Then My perennial office chair ( adjustable back and height and arms ) . It is forty years old and has been re - upholstered twice .

     That is the only thing left from the business . It cost over eight hundred bucks when new . I didn't pay that though . My neighbor in the office building bought it and I had an Ergo Chair .We swapped .

    The third and not profiled chair is a Home Depot five gallon bucket turned upside down with a good cushion on top .

Any more Five Gallon bucket chairs out there? 

A computer chair I got at FRY's some years ago. I thought about getting something fancier, but I'd just end up spilling paint all over it, like this one, whenever I forget to put an old T-shirt in my lap! It's actually pretty comfortable.

I agree 100%, I prefer standing benches and desks to a chair and standard desk/bench. I am looking at these desks and chairs...expensive...but so is a blood clot!

www.focaluprightfurniture.com

A metal folding chair (with a small throw pillow as a cushion) that I picked up at Walgreens.

I'm using an old Counter Chair / Step Stool that I picked up at a flea market.  It is probably 60-70s vintage but I added new foam and reupholstered it.

Those old industrial or drafting table chairs are excellent to use if you can find one.

Mitch ;

I use an office chair now , that I got from a automobile parts recycler .It matches the seat in the command position of my Kia Sedona Land Yacht , except it now has two armrests instead of one .  No , I refuse to call my vehicle a Soccer Momobile !

    P.S , There is a store up the street that sells real Bucket Seats . It's called Home Depot ! They just don't sell padding for them . By the way . Did you know if you get a top to put a cushion on , you can cut a small opening in the side for putting the paint cleaning rags in the thing  ?