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Building an Office Treadmill Desk—on the Cheap

By Cari Haus On February 27, 2009 Under Walking While Working

After the crash-and-burn experience of two failed office treadmill attempts, I’m happy to report that I actually have a reliable, quiet treadmill set-up with a laptop table gracing the top.

I would love to have one of those expensive Steel Case treadmill desks, or a Tread Desk. It wasn’t in the budget at the moment, however, so I did the next best thing: rigged up my own. The desk part itself cost nothing, just an hour of time in cutting some boards (found in the garage) and screwing them together. The result is handy little wood caddy that sits on top of the treadmill’s side bars and supports my laptop. I’d like a larger table, and will probably build one on top in the next week or two. But this is fine for now, and I’m elated that I can finally get started walking while working.

In spite of this incredible progress, I’m sorry to report that I won’t be getting started on my laptop-treadmill combo tonight. Guess building the little table kind of wore me out. Not to worry, though. Tomorrow is another day, and my poorwoman’s treadmill desk is right there waiting for me, all set-up and ready to go.

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