If you don’t know how to find studs or aren’t comfortable, you have lots of other options: prop the monitors up on books get another piece from Ikea (we considered the Alex Alex shelf with drawer) that you can just sit on the desktop), get a monitor riser from another shop. If you screw the shelf into drywall or particle board and put two monitors on it (possibly even one monitor), it’s liable to just rip right out of the wall, wrecking everything from your wall to the Expedit below, including your monitor. If you’re going to use the lack shelf to support your monitors, FIND STUDS IN YOUR WALL.“Ergonomics” says that the top of the monitor should be right around eye level when looking straight forward. Now figure out how high you want your monitors.It’s only there to provide support, and you’re only drilling it in to prevent it from sliding around. But the center of the desktop is fibreboard, or hollow filled, or whatever, so be gentle with that center Capita. Note that the edges of the Linnmon are solid wood, so the outside 4 legs are good. Drill holes for the capita legs in the Linnmon, and screw them in.When you’re thinking about how you want to position everything, keep in mind that the further back you set the Expedit under the Linnmon, the harder it’ll be to get at those drawers.You can sort of see in one of the photos what I mean: There are 3 legs along the back of the tabletop, but only 2 in front. Given that there wouldn’t be much weight on the desktop and that I wanted to use the space between the Expedit and Linnmon for storage of stuff, I decided not to use a Capital in the middle in front.
Figure out where the Expedit will be below it, and mark the widest (most stable) possible locations for the other 5 (yes 5) Capita legs.
When designing yours, you’ll want to keep in mind the target height of your desk, and account for it by varying the legs you use. After spending a lot of time on Ikea Hackers and a couple of visits to Ikea, we’ve ended up with this. My wife and I have wanted to put together a standing desk for a long time, and took our recent move as an opportunity to finally do it. To build your own version of the dry-erase standing desk, you’ll need an IKEA Linnmon high-gloss white tabletop, an Expedit 4×2 shelving unit, two Expedit drawer inserts, 12 Capita legs and a Lack shelf (red). The coolest thing about Liohn’s standing desk design is that the surface also functions as a white-board - handy if you like to scribble down designs or computations on the fly. Today, Liohn Sherer provides the steps to a slightly more ambitious version… The DIY standing desks just keep on coming from the folks at IKEA Hackers: last week Ammar showed us how to make a standing desk out of an IKEA Lack side table for under $20.
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