Working from home can be rewarding and exceptionally pleasant. However, it also has its fair share of challenges, and in the early days one of these challenges is establishing an effective home office.
An office chair may be a fairly utilitarian object, but it also represents a core part of your home office. It is important to appreciate quite how important the right choice of office chair is when deciding how much to spend – a question many people struggle with. In particular, it is important to properly consider the impact that your choice of office chair will have in a number of key areas.
Comfort and Health
Your choice of office chair will affect how comfortable you are throughout the working day, and in the long-term this can have significant implications for your health. It is therefore vital that you consider these factors when budgeting for an office chair. It may well be worth revising your budget upwards if it will get you an ergonomic chair, or one that otherwise provides better comfort and support through better padding, arm rests or head rests.
A very common mistake when starting up a home office is not purchasing a specialised office chair at all. On the face of it, this seems logical. After all, when you have a house full of perfectly good chairs – dining chairs for instance – why would you bother buying another one? The fact is, however, that most other kinds of chairs are not designed for prolonged use. Over time, sitting in these chairs for hours on end is not only uncomfortable but can lead to health problems.
Cost-Effective Quality
The health implications of an office chair largely stem from the fact that you will spend hours upon hours sitting in it for most days of the week. This fact also has implications for the health of the chair itself – in other words for the wear and tear that it suffers and how long its lifespan will ultimately prove to be.
Lower-quality, cheap Fabric office chairs that have been designed for a sometimes-used home computer desk or budget bulk-buying at the lowest possible price will probably not last long in regular use. It is ultimately much more cost-effective to invest in a good-quality office chair that is sturdily-built and will stand up to prolonged use. It is therefore better and ultimately cheaper to set a higher initial budget in order to obtain a chair that will last for a long time.
So How Much Should you Spend?
This is all very well, but what does it mean in real, bottom-line figures? How much should you actually be prepared to spend in order to procure these benefits but still be certain you are getting a good deal?
As a bare minimum, you should expect to spend something in the region of £50 for a basic but comfortable and good-quality office chair. For a high-backed, padded, comfortable chair with arm rests – offering better support and health qualities – this should be anything from £70-100. For specially designed ergonomic chairs, around £150 is more than reasonable. Remember these are minimum figures. The very best, finest office chairs can approach £500 and still be well-priced for the level of quality and comfort on offer.
So for a range of basic but high quality wooden office chairs to ergonomically designed desk chairs, visit Furniture Bay and don’t hesitate to contact the friendly team if you have any questions.
An office chair may be a fairly utilitarian object, but it also represents a core part of your home office. It is important to appreciate quite how important the right choice of office chair is when deciding how much to spend – a question many people struggle with. In particular, it is important to properly consider the impact that your choice of office chair will have in a number of key areas.
Comfort and Health
Your choice of office chair will affect how comfortable you are throughout the working day, and in the long-term this can have significant implications for your health. It is therefore vital that you consider these factors when budgeting for an office chair. It may well be worth revising your budget upwards if it will get you an ergonomic chair, or one that otherwise provides better comfort and support through better padding, arm rests or head rests.
A very common mistake when starting up a home office is not purchasing a specialised office chair at all. On the face of it, this seems logical. After all, when you have a house full of perfectly good chairs – dining chairs for instance – why would you bother buying another one? The fact is, however, that most other kinds of chairs are not designed for prolonged use. Over time, sitting in these chairs for hours on end is not only uncomfortable but can lead to health problems.
Cost-Effective Quality
The health implications of an office chair largely stem from the fact that you will spend hours upon hours sitting in it for most days of the week. This fact also has implications for the health of the chair itself – in other words for the wear and tear that it suffers and how long its lifespan will ultimately prove to be.
Lower-quality, cheap Fabric office chairs that have been designed for a sometimes-used home computer desk or budget bulk-buying at the lowest possible price will probably not last long in regular use. It is ultimately much more cost-effective to invest in a good-quality office chair that is sturdily-built and will stand up to prolonged use. It is therefore better and ultimately cheaper to set a higher initial budget in order to obtain a chair that will last for a long time.
So How Much Should you Spend?
This is all very well, but what does it mean in real, bottom-line figures? How much should you actually be prepared to spend in order to procure these benefits but still be certain you are getting a good deal?
As a bare minimum, you should expect to spend something in the region of £50 for a basic but comfortable and good-quality office chair. For a high-backed, padded, comfortable chair with arm rests – offering better support and health qualities – this should be anything from £70-100. For specially designed ergonomic chairs, around £150 is more than reasonable. Remember these are minimum figures. The very best, finest office chairs can approach £500 and still be well-priced for the level of quality and comfort on offer.
So for a range of basic but high quality wooden office chairs to ergonomically designed desk chairs, visit Furniture Bay and don’t hesitate to contact the friendly team if you have any questions.