Okay, so in the early stages of the pandemic, your girl Mira like a lot of people used a kitchen chair or an old wooden desk chair to WFH before realizing that her back was not on board with this plan. I got memory foam seat cushions, which helped a lot, but I did ultimately decide I needed a desk chair. I wanted something attractive, and I liked that this was velvet and available in many colors. I got the beige, which matches some accent colors (not shown) in the office off our bedroom.
I was able to assemble my chair myself over my WFH lunchbreak yesterday. The only part that is difficult to do by oneself is getting the back screwed in, because it attaches via four bolts to the mechanism for the armrest, after the armrest is in place. This is going to be tough either way (it wouldnt be any better if you put the armrests on the back before the seat). Ideally have a second person hold it to align the holes to make this part easier, but I was able to do it myself. The construction generally is nice. I did want to note that some people reported the minimum height as 18, from floor to top of seat cushion. It is more like 19.5 for my chair / FWIW, this makes it just about a half inch too tall to comfortably tuck away under my particular vintage desk. What Im going to probably do is put feet under the desk legs to jack it up an inch, because its a pretty low desk already, because I did buy this specific chair also for arms that fold up to allow it to tuck under a desk (the problem with the desk is also that, being vintage, the width of the leg opening is quite small, much narrower than any modern desk chair). Anyway, for me, the min height as noted is a bit higher. Im about 510 / 34 inseam, and I actually usually jack adjustable chairs up, but the min height is actually fairly comfortable for me (my husband sat in it, hes much shorter, and he did think it was comfortable, but if you have very short legs and dont like them swinging off the ground, beware).
Otherwise, the cushions seem nice. There are reviews with substantial cushion complaints and apparently the mfr said that there was a quality issue at their plant / this is a brand new chair, but so far the bolsters all seem well made. It is just a bit lacking in lumbar support for me, and so I did order a small cushion (I recommend trying one of the tubular ones / I tried a typical 10x20 cushion that is usually on one of our beds as a throw pillow and that is much too much). I think itll be fine since Ill be able to add a contrast color that way. Overall it looks nice, and once I deal with the issue of being able to tuck it under the desk, itll last in this setup at least as long as the pandemic, and then Ill IDK take it to one of my offices or something.
All you other old people WFHing, who are sitting on uncomfortable chairs, this stuff is going to last for a while, you ought to upgrade to better chairs. Srsly. Assembled Quickly.
Old woman needing a WFH update you guys
Okay, so in the early stages of the pandemic, your girl Mira like a lot of people used a kitchen chair or an old wooden desk chair to WFH before realizing that her back was not on board with this plan. I got memory foam seat cushions, which helped a lot, but I did ultimately decide I needed a desk chair. I wanted something attractive, and I liked that this was velvet and available in many colors. I got the beige, which matches some accent colors (not shown) in the office off our bedroom. I was able to assemble my chair myself over my WFH lunchbreak yesterday. The only part that is difficult to do by oneself is getting the back screwed in, because it attaches via four bolts to the mechanism for the armrest, after the armrest is in place. This is going to be tough either way (it wouldnt be any better if you put the armrests on the back before the seat). Ideally have a second person hold it to align the holes to make this part easier, but I was able to do it myself. The construction generally is nice. I did want to note that some people reported the minimum height as 18, from floor to top of seat cushion. It is more like 19.5 for my chair / FWIW, this makes it just about a half inch too tall to comfortably tuck away under my particular vintage desk. What Im going to probably do is put feet under the desk legs to jack it up an inch, because its a pretty low desk already, because I did buy this specific chair also for arms that fold up to allow it to tuck under a desk (the problem with the desk is also that, being vintage, the width of the leg opening is quite small, much narrower than any modern desk chair). Anyway, for me, the min height as noted is a bit higher. Im about 510 / 34 inseam, and I actually usually jack adjustable chairs up, but the min height is actually fairly comfortable for me (my husband sat in it, hes much shorter, and he did think it was comfortable, but if you have very short legs and dont like them swinging off the ground, beware). Otherwise, the cushions seem nice. There are reviews with substantial cushion complaints and apparently the mfr said that there was a quality issue at their plant / this is a brand new chair, but so far the bolsters all seem well made. It is just a bit lacking in lumbar support for me, and so I did order a small cushion (I recommend trying one of the tubular ones / I tried a typical 10x20 cushion that is usually on one of our beds as a throw pillow and that is much too much). I think itll be fine since Ill be able to add a contrast color that way. Overall it looks nice, and once I deal with the issue of being able to tuck it under the desk, itll last in this setup at least as long as the pandemic, and then Ill IDK take it to one of my offices or something. All you other old people WFHing, who are sitting on uncomfortable chairs, this stuff is going to last for a while, you ought to upgrade to better chairs. Srsly. Assembled Quickly.