About HomeDeskSetup

HomeDeskSetup works out home office workstation dimensions and then helps you buy the furniture that meets them. It exists because the useful part of desk ergonomics is arithmetic, and almost nobody publishes the arithmetic. They publish a picture of someone sitting at a right angle and leave you to guess which numbers apply to your body.

What is actually here

274 fit tables, each worked through for one specific combination of body height, screen size or frame rating, plus six calculators that show their formulas. Behind those sits a catalog of 316 products, every one of them a real listing with a real price and a real image pulled from the Amazon Product Advertising API. A listing that comes back without a price or an image is rejected rather than patched, because a made up figure is worse than a missing one.

Standards and conventions, and why the difference matters

Every figure on this site is labelled. A standard is published: a named consensus document such as ANSI/HFES 100 or ANSI/BIFMA X5.1, a manufacturer's own stated rating, or direct trigonometry. A convention is a rule of thumb, such as the multiplier that turns your height into a desk height.

Both are useful, and treating one as the other is the mistake this site is built to avoid. The published standards deliberately specify adjustment ranges rather than single correct numbers, because people of the same height differ in leg and torso proportion by more than an inch. A stature multiplier narrows your search. It is not a measurement of you, and this site never pretends otherwise.

What this site does not do

It does not test furniture in person, and it never claims to. There is exactly one exception, and it is labelled as such: our review of the Autonomous Desk 5 Pro is written in the first person because it covers a desk the author has genuinely owned and used daily, having owned that brand's desks since around 2015. Everything else on this site is published specifications, published standards and verified owner reports.

It is also not medical advice. Ergonomics sits next to health, and the honest position is that this site can tell you what published guidance says about neutral posture and what the arithmetic implies for your desk height. It cannot tell you why your back hurts. Persistent pain, numbness or tingling is a reason to see a clinician, not a reason to buy something.

How it pays for itself

Affiliate links, disclosed in the footer of every page and explained in full on the affiliate disclosure. Most are Amazon links; at least one is not, because the Autonomous desk is sold direct rather than through Amazon. Commission does not change which product wins a roundup, and the clearest evidence of that is how much of this site is spent talking readers out of purchases: every build guide carries a list of things to skip, and every ceiling tier says who should not buy it.

More detail on sourcing and verification is on the methodology page, and the standards themselves are summarised on the standards page. Corrections are genuinely welcome: get in touch.