Wanted: An at-home desk chair that won't break my back
So I tried to work from home on Monday, and I spent hours at my wobbly kitchen table sitting on an array of bad wooden chairs. I woke up the next morning and felt like a geriatric pretzel, like an already-clumsy gymnast who had somehow acquired rapid-aging disease overnight. This is the way it goes in my apartment, workwise: You're either stiff from the bad chairs or achy from sitting on the couch and hunching over to type at the coffee table. We need a real, practical, ergonomic solution, but not something that looks like "office" furniture. Does anyone know anything about chairs that are good for your back but not hideous? Right now I like this, this, and this, but I'm also considering getting one of those weirdly-yogic-but-just-might-work physio balls.
This is one of those items that you can't mess around with. Running my own biz means I work from home A LOT. Like you, working from kitchen table kool-kid mod chairs put my back through army basic training. In my opinion there is no "hybrid" ergonmic chain that is sleek and simple in design (and affordable). My advice: go to Staples and get something with back support. Your ebay pics are good for about 5 mins of work and then 10 mins of rolling around on tennis ball to get the knots out.
Not cheap but if you can find it for less than retail, Aeron chairs like the ones from Design Within Reach are comfortable for hours.
I asked my husband, the "king" of chairs, keyboards and working that doesn't hurt your back (since he has to do mine). He agrees with the poster above.
Although not pretty, Herman Miller Aeron Chairs are supposed to be the big deal...And also sitting with your back straight....and having the keyboard at your waist....and a special kind of carpel tunnel reducing mouse (I'm serious he has one). If you really want to get into this, there's a whole world of "working aides" that supposedly help stop the pain.
(but I still work in bed, propped up by pillows)