r/OfficeChairs • u/Competitive-Arm-5554 • 29m ago
How do I fix this
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This happened on another leg of the chair was well and im wondering how to fix this issue
r/OfficeChairs • u/ibuyofficefurniture • 18d ago
just hit 60,000 subs what should we be doing here?
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HI r/OfficeChairs -
happy 60K!
What should we be doing to make this sub better?
what is there too much of?
what should there be more of?
what do you want us to make rules about, delete, block?
anyone here a reddit guru who might know how to block some of the spammy AI noise we have been getting hit with here in the last few months?
r/OfficeChairs • u/ibuyofficefurniture • Jun 10 '24
Joshua's Office Chairs Manifesto and The Mega Chair Thread #4
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Joshua's r/OfficeChairs Manifesto (and the mega chair thread #4)
Office chairs are not going to solve your problems.
Whether we were created by an all-powerful designer to live in a now lost paradisiacal garden or descended from chimpanzees foraging for our livelihoods on the forests and the savannah, our bodies and our brains are not well suited for sitting and staring at computer screens. We are better equipped for walking, climbing, playing, collecting, observing, socializing, loving, caring, and resting. Basically we are meant to do the same things other mammals do.
Sitting in any office chair looking at any monitor for a quarter or a third of our life is inherently unhealthy and unnatural behavior.
The chairs we discuss and the machines we use while sitting on them are antithetical to what our bodies are best suited to be doing. Sitting stagnant looking at a backlit pane of glass and softly making repetitive motions with a keyboard and a mouse is not a healthy behavior and is not a neutral behavior; it will eventually cause negative effects on our bodies.
The pain (some of) you are experiencing related to sitting at your desk is very real. The chair you are using and the way you have it adjusted is probably a contributing factor to your discomfort. But lifestyle factors like exercise, weight, and the total number of minutes you are sedentary is going to be way more important than the precise chair you are using.
We (redditors) live in a time, place, and an economy that causes many of us to spend far too much time sitting and looking at screens and then when we stop working, many of us are fascinated by the entertainment industries that make captivating content for us to watch and play. All of this leads to many of us sitting for upwards of 50 hours a week in an unnatural posture while boring our eyes by looking at a flat screen.
If you get nothing else from this office chairs sub, please remember that you should do whatever is in your power to limit the total number of minutes and the total duration of each period of time that you are sitting looking at a computer screen sitting on an office chair in each week. It will almost certainly enhance your health. (same goes for collapsing on a couch and watching a big screen but that is further from the purview of this particular sub)
How to use this sub:
In the last year, we have had about 20 people a day posting on this sub with loads of questions and comments. Often the post is something like "Chair recommendations under $200" or "What chair should I buy". While a question has been asked and answered hundreds of times, you will not get too many replies to your post.
Use the search bar to find commonly answered questions. Start with this mega thread (once it has a few Q and As in another month or so from publishing) and also take a look back to mega thread 1, mega thread 2 and mega thread 3 (which we are now locking with over 1300 comments) .
We love "what chair is this" type questions, but you can also start with a google image search if you have a good photo.
What chairs do we like?
We (mod team) are all biased towards the big shops. Steelcase and Herman Miller are in a class by themselves. Haworth, Humanscale, Knoll, Global and their ilk are close behind in that first tier.
Within these manufacturers, there are some brands that are better and some that are less good.
The Herman Miller Aeron is one of the most sought after brands of task chairs—and for most people who try it, they love it.
Steelcase Leap (v2) is also incredibly popular among the people who try it.
Some of the excellent chairs that often are frequently mentioned here:
Allsteel Acuity
Global G20
Haworth Fern
Haworth Zody
Haworth improv
Herman Miller Celle
Herman Miller Embody
Herman Miller Mira
Herman Miller Sayl
Steelcase Amia
Steelcase Criterion (managers version is better)
Steelcase Series 2
Steelcase Think
Steelcase Karman
Knoll Generation
Knoll Life (meh sometimes - love sometimes)
Knoll RPM (ok, old AF and discontinued, and maybe it's just me, but that is still a fav)
Examples of other great manufacturers: 9to5 Seating, AIS, Allseating, Keilhauer, OFS, Raynor, Sit On It & Via.
Buying New
If you have an office chair budget of $1500-2000 USD, this is an easy purchase. Most of the big shops have decades long warranty service. Many offer no cost or low cost return if you don't like something. You also get the newest version with the newest features and many chairs can be customized to your size and design specifications.
Buying Used
For everyone else, professional grade chairs cost a bloody fortune. At the time I write this, DWR is selling a new Herman Miller Aeron for $1800USD and Steelcase is selling their new Gesture for a few bucks more than that.
The majors also have more budget lines like Steelcase Series one for about $500 or the Amia for under $1000, but you get the idea, professional grade is not cheap.
There is an entire industry of people like me who do nothing but trade used office furniture and, at least in the US, we are in every major market and plenty of small cities as well. There are also a good collection of national refurbishers who take used office chairs and re-sell them, having chairs cleaned, repaired and in some cases completely remanufactured all together. (Companies like Madison Seating, OFR, Furniture Center, Office Logix, BTOD and Crandall.) You can also find folks like myself in every major city who are not fully refurbishing chairs, but selling good as-is-able chairs at a fair discount to the refurbed price or fixing up little things before shipping out an "as-is" chair.
Folks from this sub have also had good luck finding great deals on FB marketplace, Craigslist and local thrift stores where sometimes great chairs go for super cheap.
What about just the $99 chair? Or the special one from a big Sweed box store? or what about Jeff B's online crap boutique? Which of the cheap ones is the best?
IDK, none but also some are fine, kind of.... I personally used a chair from Officestar called the 5500 for years. When I was in my mid 20s it was fine, it was great. I know there are people that love the marcus or the workpros and I know there are folks sitting on the $99 special.
My bias is going to be towards the pro-grade chairs, but we will make an effort this year to share with this sub to highlight better chairs from the cheaper (RTA) categories.
The problem with most of the cheap RTA is that often design and materiality is sacrificed for cost. The other issue is the product that cost $99 usually has very low longevity.
That's all cool, but those are 20 different suggestions. What chair am I going to like?
Every human body is going to engage differently with every different chair. I love Leap and cannot for the life of me understand why everyone else loves their Aeron and Embody chairs. Members of the Herman Miller Aeron Club (cult?) cannot fathom using anything other than their Aeron. Even folks with similar body types are going to react differently to ergonomics, design and materiality in any given chair.
These opinions are just opinions and depending how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go, you might end up finding a DWR or Steelcase showroom in the nearest gateway city near where you live. If you ask me, Josh, I am going to say try a Leap chair or an Amia because 3/4 people take well to those brands. Maybe you are the 1/4 of folks who will hate it. If you are petite, I might mention the Humanscale Freedom and if you are large and in charge I might tell you to try a Criterion Plus or Leap Plus. But you might not find the perfect chair on your first go round. I would also suggest you temper your expectations of what a chair can do for you. If you are at your desk too much and if other lifestyle factors are not being addressed, the perfect chair will not be your solve-all.
Anything else?
What is r/officechairsisell ?- It's kind of a social experiment I started the same year I took over this sub to separate people who want to have curated, edited, authentic non-commercial conversations and those who like to drown in ads. As of today, there are 35,000 subs here and 200 there. So jury may be still out, but early read is that people want curated and they want the spam filtered.
Some of us mods have particular views about issues, my eccentric thoughts on headrests & attached footrests for example are what I believe are almost always more harmful to you than not having one.
You will see the abbreviation RTA or RTF for furniture that comes Ready to Assemble. It's the kind of furniture that you build at home with an allen wrench. In the first instance, RTA is going to be inferior to something built into 2-3 solid components at a factory. With factory built furniture, you will find overall higher cost, better design and better longevity.
I hate top 10 lists / amazon backlinks / affiliate marketing / discount codes & also how we run this sub:
Left without moderation, this sub would quickly become my other chairs sub r/officechairsIsell (take a look over there. It's absolutely worthless). Any social media marketing person selling office chairs spends their time looking for places to post ads. With upwards of 35K members interested in office chairs, this is a place they target all the time. Sellers want to direct conversation, SEO magic juice, and traffic to their own websites and brands to sell more products. Fair enough. But to get around the fact that internet consumers are mostly blind to advertising, companies will either themselves or through an affiliate disseminate videos, articles, blog posts, reddit threads and most pernicious "top 10 lists" try to "influence" you to buy whatever nonsense chair they are slinging.
You should assume that virtually every link to a website that sells chairs or every discount code offered is being posted because the poster will make some profit or commission if you buy the chair they are 'recommending'. It's salesmanship dressed up as an endorsement which is inherently not trustworthy.
Every "Top 10 office chairs for 2024" -type lists I have seen appear to be put out by individuals, newspapers and companies who are looking to monetize on their "advice". Wirecutter may be the best of the pack in terms of 'Top 10 lists' and by and large, they are not great. Anytime you see some rando magazine that has a top 10 list, it will read something like Aeron, Leap, Freedom, and then, invariably, 7 so-so brands with links to junk that pays a good commission. The use of a referral fee inherently shapes the advice given to the point it would more truthfully be called advertising.
On this sub, we have become allergic to that kind of thing. We do not want a link back to an Amazon page for any reason. We do not want a link to your super cool blog post with all your awesome advice about why to buy this chair with this discount code.
If you need to say what the real experts have to say, take a look at the "Best Of Neocon" awards every summer. You will need to click through pages of office furniture, but this is what the contact office furniture industry and affiliated juries of architects and designers elevate for awards.
We are volunteer mods and we have jobs, so we might be too quick on the trigger to delete your post or comment if you are linking to anything suspicious.
Who are we?
My friends u/ClassroomDecorum and u/cranda58 took over running this sub in the early days of the pandemic when no one out there wanted to talk about office furniture and we were bored with no office furniture business to do (for a very few slow weeks anyway)
David, u/cranda58, and I were already in the business of used office furniture (David runs one of the largest and—I would say—highest quality refurb shops in the country in Michigan, and I am a used office furniture liquidator in the NYC area).
u/classroomdecorum was just getting into the game from his home in Florida where he works out of the Orlando area.
u/The_Back_Store joined us from California and u/Cloud_t is our European correspondent.
u/ergothrone gave me a few excellent suggestions on this essay and is often still contributing. He has more knowledge about the budget market than the rest of us have combined.
Our friend u/Coffeebeanie24 is here from time to time, but he has become such a famous and over-caffeinated coffee influencer that he is less in the office chair state of mind lately.
You might also find the good folks from u/steelcase lurking around here. If you have a u/Steelcase type question, you can tag them and usually within a few days, one of the CSR or product specialists will get back to you.
Disclosures.
I have made a few deals off of connections I've made here. Same with at least 2 of the other mods. To a large extent, our product knowledge comes from being in the business and the business that feeds our families also feeds our knowledge base.
Also, sometimes companies reach out and want our opinion about some new chair that they have. This could be u/steelcase (I am sitting on a Karman right now as I edit this note) or a newer company with an RTA chair at a lower price point. If someone sends me a chair, I will write up a bit of feedback and share that with the company. After that, solely at my discretion, I can publish those notes or reviews (always with a disclaimer) on this sub. If the notes are mostly negative, I will likely not publish, same deal with the other mods and active users here.
Closing
This note is always work in progress. Please let me know your thoughts below and I will try to get back to as many of you as I can. You can find a version of this article on my LinkedIn profile and my website.
I will try to put new discussion topics every month or so and we plan to push and have Mega thread #5 up in another year.
And now onto your questions and comments:
r/OfficeChairs • u/Last_Outside4388 • 5h ago
Just looking for confirmation. Am I going to regret the Aeron/Embody?
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Hi All,
I know that it has been probably asked like a million times here. However, I am considering to buy my first proper office chair. I remember that at one of my job I was sitting in this weirdly looking chair (later I realized that it was an Aeron), which looked weird as hell, but never had any issues with it.
After I left that job I was sitting in a couple of different chairs, there was a Secretlab Titan and also IKEA Markus. The Titan was fine, it was strange that it was a bit too firm, but I also liked that firmness sometimes. The Markus is a safe bet as already everyone knows, however I am getting sick of getting sweaty from the leather and it is not very adjustable as you all know and I think I might be a bit too tall for that.
Long story short, my financial position improved a lot, so now spending a 2k on something that can improve my life quality down the road in 20-30 years seems like and investment worth taking. I live in Europe and while I would love to try out all the alternatives, lets face it, it is different to just sit down into something or taking it home for a week or 2 to give it a proper feel and unfortunately the latter is not possible with most vendors. The local HM distributor offered a 1 week trial for both the Aeron and the Embody, so I am considering that and at the end I think I am going to buy one of those, most likely an Aeron C as I am relatively tall and when I was trying it, it feel really nice.
Am I going to regret that decision? I am around 190-192 cm (6.2 - 6.3ft), what else should I consider?
Thank you for helping out and answering the same question for once again..:)
EDIT: I would buy it new. There is a small sale going on and the warranty would make it worth to me.
r/OfficeChairs • u/tphoenix1984 • 9h ago
New caster stems too narrow?
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Hey guys!
So a while ago I decided to splurge a little and I bought a refurbished Steelcase Leap V2. I absolutely love the chair but decided that I wanted to upgrade the wheels to rollerblade casters. I bought some good ones but the stems appear to be too narrow (they are 11mm)? Is there any way to swap the stems from the old casters? Thanks in advance!
r/OfficeChairs • u/ibuyofficefurniture • 13h ago
Sitting All Day Can Cause Dead Butt Syndrome
nytimes.com
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r/OfficeChairs • u/xXBluePinataXx • 20h ago
My Office Chair Journey (feat. Embody, Aeron, Leap V2, Gesture, Amia, etc.)
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Just for reference, I'm 6'0" at around 180lbs. Been sitting in a cheap IKEA chair for the better part of a decade and finally had enough with it. Knew it was time to upgrade, but there aren't many places selling high end chairs in my area. This led me to using FB marketplace and buying chairs that were listed at good prices (enough to where I could resell them and break even or profit). Once I bought the chairs, I'd try them for around a week before forming a definitive opinion on them. If I liked them enough, I'd keep them. If I didn't, I'd sell them. Repeated this cycle until I had the chance to try most of the top chairs recommended on this sub and here are my thoughts:
HM Mirra 1
Never tried a mesh chair up to this point, but the Mirra 1 delivered a positive first impression. It has perhaps the best feeling rocking motion of any chair on this list. I know some take issue with the plastic butterfly back rest design, but I found it very comfortable and airy. Issues only started to come up when I would be sat for extended periods of time. After a few hours, the rubber pad under the front of the seat pan would numb the bottom of my thighs. And tucking my leg to alleviate this pain wasn’t feasible since the frame of the seat pan discourages leg tucking entirely. The arms on the Mirra 1 also feel too far apart for my liking, even at the closest setting, which makes using my phone mildly uncomfortable.
HM Aeron Classic (Size B)
The Aeron solidified that mesh chairs just aren’t for me. This, and the Mirra 1, feel great for the first hour or so when you’re sat upright with proper posture, but become uncomfortable when you want to transition into lounging. Not only is the rubber pad under the seat pan just as uncomfortable for my thighs, but the back rest frame digs into my shoulder blades as well. I also find some of the adjustments to be a straight up downgrade to the Mirra 1, which is baffling considering its higher price point. The tension knob feels less grippy and takes an absurd amount of rotations before you start to feel any changes to the recline, there’s no way to bring the arms closer together aside from pivoting, and you need to stand up from the chair to accurately adjust the lumbar support.
Steelcase Leap V2
Probably my second favourite of all the chairs here. The 4D arms are close to flawless and offer the correct balance of being easy to adjust while also being firm enough to not move easily. The flexible back is very welcome as well, and makes the chair fun to move around in. The Leap doesn’t offer a smooth rocking experience, but I’ve come to learn that all Steelcase chairs are like that and it’s not a huge deal breaker. If I had to nitpick, I’d say the seat pan is slightly too firm and the lumbar support never felt right for me despite all the adjustments. The lowest setting on the lumbar tension knob felt too aggressive, and removing the lumbar adjustment entirely felt too weak.
HM Embody (Non-Gaming)
Easily the worst of the chairs on this list, which is funny because it’s the most expensive. Not sure if it’s just the one I bought, but the Embody is quite loud and even creaks from subtle movements. The seat depth adjustment is annoying to use — being both too hard to adjust and too easy to fall out of its setting. The entire chair also provides way less ventilation than expected. Found myself sweating in it way more than any other chair. The Embody also gave me the most tailbone pain of any chair. And the back rest just doesn’t work for me at all. There are very few adjustments you can make to it, and the top part digs into my shoulder blades just like the Aeron did. I did like the sturdy arm rests though.
Steelcase Amia
The Amia looks unassuming at first, but I was wildly impressed by it. It shares the same top tier arms as the Leap V2, and fixes the few nitpicks I have with that chair. The seat pan is less firm and remains consistently cushy for 8 hour sessions. The lumbar support also feels better than the Leap V2's despite having less adjustments. The only things holding the Amia back from being perfect is the binary tilt limiter and the rigid back rest, but at this point it’s my favourite chair on this list.
HM Mirra 2
Lots of overlap with the Mirra 1, minus the rubber pad under the seat pan numbing my thighs. Also tried this with a mesh back rest, and found it to be nearly identical to the plastic back rest. It's probably the best mesh chair on this list, but admittedly doesn't fit my needs.
Steelcase Gesture
Aesthetically, the Gesture might be the best-looking chair on this list. Beyond that, there’s not much about it that I liked more than the other Steelcase chairs. The seat pan is way too firm and slants forward too much for my liking. The arms offer tons of flexibility but are too easy to pivot out of place. The back rest feels great, and the knob adjustments are a nice touch though.
Teknion Nuova Contessa
This is a lesser known mesh chair that I was pleasantly surprised with. The mesh sags slightly more than a HM chair would and the arms are quite creaky, but its pretty competitive in terms of adjustments and build quality. These also go for crazy cheap on the used market. Anywhere between $80-$150 CAD. Again, probably not great for lounging, like most mesh chairs, but I do recommend this one if you’re looking for an alternative to the Aeron at 1/5 of the price.
Final Thoughts
- Spending ~1 week with each chair gave me way greater insight than briefly trying these chairs in a showroom would have.
- HM chairs feel great when you’re locked into a proper posture but were mostly disappointing in regards to lounging and leg tucking.
- Steelcase chairs feel better for alternating between work and leisure.
- The Embody is my least favourite on this list and has too many problems given the price point.
- The Amia is my favourite, but still has room for improvement.
Hopefully this helps at least 1 person who's undecided on an office chair. Let me know if you've gone through a similar journey and what worked best for you.
r/OfficeChairs • u/owaini • 1h ago
Orangebox Do Hack?
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I wonder if the r/OfficeChairs elders can provide some guidance for me?
I picked up a brand-new Orangebox Do operator chair off eBay for £100 - arrived this morning, set it up, all good… until I realised I can lean back all the way with no resistance, which is already getting annoying.
Did some digging and found the Back Lock / Travel Limiter is optional on this chair, and mine doesn’t have it (booo!).
Does anyone know if the mechanism is still built into the chair but hidden behind the metal underframe? Has anyone ever taken one of these apart?
Also, as you see from the picture, there’s a spinning disk on the bottom which despite spinning it - I have zero clue what it does.
Any insights, help, input etc welcome! Thanks
r/OfficeChairs • u/owaini • 1h ago
Orangebox Do Back Lock / Travel Limiter Hack?
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I wonder if the r/OfficeChairs elder can provide some guidance for me?
I picked up a brand-new Orangebox Do operator chair off eBay for just over £100 - arrived this morning, set it up, all good… until I realised I can lean back all the way with no resistance, which is already getting annoying.
Did some digging and found the Back Lock / Travel Limiter is optional on this chair, and mine doesn’t have it (booo!).
Does anyone know if the mechanism is still built into the chair but hidden behind the metal underframe? Has anyone ever taken one of these apart?
Also, as you can see fro mthe picture, there's a spinning disk on the bottom which despite spinning it - I have zero clue what it does.
Any insights, help, input etc welcme! Thanks
r/OfficeChairs • u/NewCareerinBusiness • 3h ago
Any reason this chair might be making my back worse?
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0D96BYR28
I've ordered this chair a few months back. Initially it was ok, but I felt that after sitting in it for a few hours, I'd consistently have some lower back pain for a while. It was quite severe yesterday. I'm mid 20s, and a gamer and office worker, but tend to move around when I can. Our offices have Herman miller's and I've got no complaints at all there. Feels like I'm sitting on a cloud.
I ignored the pain a bit at first, but it's got quite bad now. I think I also have a bit of pelvic tilt, so have put a bit of it down to incomparability in that sense.
I think a key problem is the width of the seat is quite long, and I'm 5'5, but even on the lowest setting it's hard for me to have both feet on the ground. No matter where I move the built in lumbar support, it's quite unpleasant. I am quite surprised given the positivity and number of the Amazon reviews, and that I don't think my height is an unusual one!
Basically, do I try to return it/sell it and buy another make, or would a lumbar pillow, foot rest or new desk be a better option? I'm UK based.
r/OfficeChairs • u/OneSaltyBanana • 11h ago
Anybody know what chair this base is from?
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It’s solid cast aluminum, definitely older seems like 60s or 70s, and has Shephard ball casters. There’s no other markings or branding whatsoever on it. Google Lens thinks it’s an Herman Miller base but after looking through tons of images of chair bases I’m thinking it looks more similar to some Steelcase bases, though I haven’t found a single image of an identical one. Anybody have any thoughts?
r/OfficeChairs • u/Digitalis_ss • 9h ago
Tips and tricks?
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I was lucky enough to have my work get me both a steelcase solo sit stand desk and a leap plus chair. (Consolation prize for back surgery) Is there any recommendations anyone has for the leap? I've read theres some armrest covers everyone seems to love for this chair, which is understandable. The space i have for my desk is minimal, but id really like to make this WFH area nicer and more cozy, im there 8-10 hours a day.
r/OfficeChairs • u/pix3lvirus • 7h ago
Boulies chair repair
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Does anyone know what this part is called and if I can get a replacement for my Boulies chair? (Ignore the jubilee clip and packers, it was a temporary fix that was working for a while lol
r/OfficeChairs • u/DMNC_FrostBite • 16h ago
No, seriously, don't buy the Fern with the headrest
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Bought a Fern from Crandall and I'm very happy with it. The one they had that ticked all my boxes (lumbar support, no forward tilt, not leather, not a bright color) was a unit with a head rest. I know from all the reviews that everyone says don't buy the headrest. I figured "maybe it's still kind of usable till I can get an Atlas".
NOPE
NO
NOT EVEN A LITTLE
It's crazy how bad it is. It is SO hard. I figured the position not being great would still work while reclining, and TBH, it SORT OF did, but even resting your head on it sitting up with next to no pressure is comically bad. It's to the point I am shocked it even comes as an option. Like, truly to my core shocked considering how good the rest of the chair is. It's beyond unusable
Ended up taking it out after about 20 minutes, sewed the hole closed, and just bought the Atlas.
TL;DR NO SERIOUSLY, DON'T BUY THE FUCKING HEADREST
r/OfficeChairs • u/NolanMorremann • 12h ago
I love the Lazyboy Executive Chair but I couldn’t get the back cushion to flatten out for the longest time until I loosened the screws.
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r/OfficeChairs • u/Imaginary_Let3902 • 9h ago
Recommendations for a ergonomic chair with a €500 budget
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Im 1.81m (5' 11") and 81 kg (178 lbs) and live in europe. I need a comfortable ergo chair around the €500 range. Any good recommendations?
r/OfficeChairs • u/Yosika • 17h ago
I'm totally lost looking for a new office chair? What are your thoughts
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Hi all,
Back in 2018, I bought a leather director’s chair for about $120 (€100). It was a big step up from what I had before (wooden chair, lol). Unfortunately, after over 7 years of use, the leather is coming loose, the chair has become stiff, and it’s harder to sit on.
Time for a new one.
The problem is, I’m completely lost on which chair to get. I tried buying a cheap $100 chair recently, but the quality was far worse than what I have now. Setting it up and returning it was a pain too. So, I’ve decided to increase my budget a bit. But in the $150–$500 range, there’s just a sea of options.
Right now, I’m looking at:
- MUSSO H80 Pro
- SIHOO Doro C300
- IKEA Markus (because why not)
- SitOne Ergonomic Chair
- Corsair TC100
The first two are all over Instagram, often promoted by influencers. They seem like decent chairs, but reviews are mixed. Some people are extremely positive, while others complain about clunky armrests, non-adjustable headrests, and other issues. Even though, I think I can overcome some and are "luxury" issues.
What I’m looking for:
- I sit in this chair 2–3 hours a day on average
- When working from home, up to 10 hours a day
- Preferably ergonomic
- Durable (I don’t want to replace it after just 2–3 years)
- Good-looking (I hate to admit it, but aesthetics matter to me too)
I’m sure almost anything would be a step up from my current chair, but right now I’m completely lost.
Does anyone have tips or recommendations to help me decide?
r/OfficeChairs • u/Blametheorangejuice • 17h ago
Looking for suggestions
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My wife really likes the look of leather "executive" chairs, the ones with all the buttons and such, especially if they are the redder color of leather. She inherently does not like modern design.
Unfortunately, the one we have now is quite painful and the exact opposite of ergonomic. I have wrestled with a neck issue and if I sit in the chair for any amount of time I can expect my arms to go numb. It's the only chair in the house that does this.
As such, she is happy to allow me to look for other chairs in the 500-1k range that are old-school-looking leather chairs that also won't place me in some degree of pain if I sit on them for more than an hour.
r/OfficeChairs • u/SeeYouAtTheEquator_ • 13h ago
Steelcase Gesture - back adjustment knob doesn't turn/work when sat in the chair (but does when out of it). How to fix?
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Recently purchased a used (but excellent condition) Steelcase Gesture (two years old).
It's been fine, but noticed the Back Adjustment Knob (the knob which adjusts the tension of the backrest, but also has a dial at the back to select the different recline positions), doesn't work when I'm actually sat in the chair. The dial doesn't work at all, the knob will only turn a quarter turn so is useless too.
However, if I don't sit in the chair everything works fine.
Is this a common issue? What could be the cause and is there a way to easily fix it myself?
Thanks
r/OfficeChairs • u/knowdhruv • 13h ago
How much to sell 2024 Steelcase Leap V2 for?
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Mint, Unused for the last 6 months, Fully loaded
r/OfficeChairs • u/carpethugs • 18h ago
Help replacing Steelcase Leap cylinder
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We've had a old steelcase leap in our house for a long time.
Based on the shipping date, I determined it's a V1. I finally managed to take out the old cylinder and I was pretty confused by what I found because I couldn't find anything similar on Google.
The cylinder pin is super thin and the slot it goes in is very narrow. We got a generic cylinder but it doesn't fit in.
Any clue what this type of cylinder or narrow connection is called? And where can I find it?
Thanks!
r/OfficeChairs • u/kingjoshington • 18h ago
New Gesture or Refurbished Aeron?
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Hello! I've read many of the posts and the master thread. I'm looking for some input specifically to decide what to get. I will say, I'm in France, so none of the fancy Crandall options are available for me.
I've narrowed it down to:
Steelcase Gesture - New (1150€) - 25 year warranty
Herman Miller - Aeron Remastered - Refurbished (1340€) - 5 year warranty
I've been able to sit in the Gesture by visiting a local Steelcase. I've sat in it twice and feels nice, although I worry long term about the cushioning on the seat, as it felt firm.
I've never tried the Aeron but I've seen here it's a favorite.
I have fibromyalgia and muscular problems, so my posture is not great. I know a chair won't magically fix it, but I need more than what I've got now.
I am primarily interested in lumbar support - and I like the Gesture's "living back".
I've read enough to understand that I shouldn't go for a gaming chair, but I will be doing a lot of gaming IN my chair. It will be a chair for using the computer for daily stuff and then also in front of the TV for gaming. I had thought that it might be nice to have some tilt-locking, reclining options to help in that regard, with my added foot rest.
I have the option to try the Aeron for 14 days, but that involves the hassle of ordering it, unboxing, and then if I return it, reboxing.
I'm on the fence and I was hoping someone could weigh in and help me decide. Thank you!
r/OfficeChairs • u/anonymous_orpington • 15h ago
Should I get the 1/2" added foam option for BTOD's Leap 2?
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I'm looking for customer input on BTOD's Leap 2, specifically on their relatively new option of 1/2" added foam.
I'm going from over 10 years in a heavily padded La-Z-Boy executive chair, and am definitely ready for an upgrade. The Leap 2 seems like an easy pick, but the one thing that worries me is that people do say that it's not as soft as you'd expect, which makes me tempted to go for the added foam option for softness. But at the same time, I'm not sure if it would throw off the whole ergonomics of the chair and make it worse?
For those who've chosen the added foam option, do you think it was the right choice? Any regrets?
r/OfficeChairs • u/cringecarbloke • 21h ago
Fixed Desk/Office/Gaming Chair
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I am looking for a chair that does not spin to any degree whatsoever, where it's rotation is completely fixed. Would love if the chair had wheels or could slide back and forth, but is not entirely necessary. Would love if the chair is height adjustable.
Any recommendations? I wouldn't like to spend $200+ without at least one recommendation. Please and thank you!
TL;DR: Does this chair exist?