Home office chair recommendations

Ask Dame Priti Patel, three years experience...

Any recommendations?

Up your budget.

The way I looked at is, an office chair, you're likely to spend eight hours a day in. That's a third of your life. Like buying a bed, it's worth getting something right.

I've got a refurbished Humanscale Freedom. Comfiest chair I have ever owned, and brilliant for my knackered hips.

As above save up. I wouldnt buy a £200 chair again, they are just crap in comparison

To be fair though it looks like I have an investment with mine! I think I paid about £400 and just looking now they are about £650-700 for the same refurbed chair !

Ask Dame Priti Patel, three years experience…

Clicked on this thread thinking this was going to be some horrific plan to make immigrants uncomfortable.

At least have a look second hand. 10 years ago I picked up a mint refurbed Steelcase Leap v1 for £100 from a firm who took on hundreds of them from one of the investment banks.  Super comfy. Sold it 2 years ago for more than I paid for it. 4 years ago I was fortunate to be given a new Leap v2 from a client who were having an office refurb and they had the choice of either paying a shed load of money to a firm to get them disposed of or literally just give them away to employees. These are similar chars are IRO £800 new, but you can often pick them up second hand for £200-£300. Far better than most of the crap you see in Currys etc.

I picked up a mint refurbed Steelcase Leap v1 for £100 from a firm who took on hundreds of them from one of the investment banks.

I have had one these for around 15 years and I spend hours sat on it.  Very comfy, I would get another in a heartbeat.

Mesh back support is great in the hot weather,

MARKUS Vissle dark grey, Office chair - IKEA

EDIT, what the heck has happened to the link thing, anyway, google it...

To answer your question and not recommend something clearly £££££ I got a refurbed Giroflex G64 7578 Fully Ergonomic Operator Task Chair during lockdown and now sit on it at home all day everyday and find it be spot on. Comfortable, enough adjustment, does exactly what it says on the tin.

I got an Orangebox chair bought for me by work for wfh - I’d bought a cheapie thing and the padding went flat quick and gave me a bad back prior to that.

So I wouldn’t spend £100-£150 on a new office chair - it won’t be very good long term / working day to day.

I’d look secondhand / refurbished at orange box / Herman miller / human scale etc I think.

Or get a riser desk like my old boss had. I prefer my swivel chair.

Just to be clear, I will be using it 2 or 3 hours per day, not full days.

Went for the Ikea recommendation.

Thanks rockhopper.

Keep an eye on weight specs. Not implying anything 🤔 but ikea chairs can be on the lighter person end of the scale

There was a huge thread on this in April / May 2020 that you may be able to find. I also needed a chair for WFH and was led by that thread to Corporate Spec who sell refurbed office furniture. Mine has new foam and fabric and only a couple of small marks onthe spider that holds the wheels. Otherwise after one week it looked the same as it would have done if brand new.

I got one of these Giroflexs and been happy with it: https://corporatespec.com/product/refurbished-giroflex-g64-3d-arms-multi-colours/

I think I paid £130 then so price has gone up a lot. Plenty of other chairs on their site though.

Herman Miller Aeron in the appropriate size

@swolol Just cancelled my Ikea order and gone for that Giroflex chair.

It means I don't have build anything either.

Thanks.

Also a Giroflex G64 user here, bought in lockdown as a result of the thread above.

Purchased from 2ndhnd.com and no issues with it. Really comfy chair

MARKUS Vissle dark grey, Office chair – IKEA

I've had one of these for at least 5 years now & it's very good - almost as good as the one my employer spent well over a grand on.  It's been used most days through the pandemic & remains comfy despite my knackered SI joint.

Anyone use a kneeling chair to recommend, or not?

Humanscale diffrient world. Shop around for a decent price.

I bought a second hand vitra office chair on eBay for wfh during Covid which would have been loads of cash brand new. It’s much comfier than my one in the actual office at work. Think it was from a closed down business or similar. Cost me less than £100, is good quality, well designed and repairable if needed.

a couple of yrs ago i got a lovely leather vitra eames office chair from someone on here who had a couple from his business doing refurbs or similar. The wife uses that upstairs as she’s lighter than me and I don’t want to wreck it as it’s so nice. It’s so nicely designed and comfy and so well built, a really nice bit of furniture.

I guess big firms are opening up places and closing down places all the time and decent second hand stuff makes its way 9th the market. It’s just a case of knowing what you’re looking for and being in the right place at the right time on whatever Platform you use.

Herman Miller Aeron

We had Aerons at work and I loved them, but they were just too pricy for home use. I compromised and got a Mirra and I've been very happy with it, although it's only cheap when compared with an Aeron.

I saw on HUKD Amazon had Steelcase Series 1 (don’t know exactly how it compares as not researched yet!) reduced to something like £390 which sounds ok for a brand new one!

Yep, I bagged one of those. My Orangebox wasn't handling my bum as well as it used to - but it was only £100 or so and it didn't owe me much.

New steelcase is nice! The HUKD thread basically made it sound very cheap. Armrests are plastic, but other than that it all feels good so far.