I have been read­ing a bunch of stud­ies about how sit­ting at a desk all day takes years off of your life. So I fig­ured I should at least have a stand­ing desk at home since I can’t have one at work. This was the cheap­est solu­tion I could find for the size I wanted. I checked Ikea­Hack­ers and the clos­est I could find was going to be $230. What I ended up mak­ing is pretty nice so far. Just two wire shelves that were $40 each and then two 2×8′s that were on sale for $7 each. The planks are just lay­ing on the shelves right now, but even­tu­ally I am going to attach them with wire some­how. The planks bent a lit­tle in the mid­dle when they were going edge to edge, so I moved the shelves closer together and have the planks go up against the wall on the right, which ended up look­ing nice.  Right now all I have is the Mac­book Pro, but I built this with an iMac in mind, with the iMac on the top shelf and the key­board on the bot­tom. When I get that I will need to get a bracket attached to the wall for more support.