I’ve been a user of standing desks for years. Working from home, I fell into a habit of sitting for upwards of 12 hours every day while I worked. I had done some reading on standing desks, so I went out and and gathered some random parts from IKEA and made an adjustable/convertible standing desk. The bottom half of the desk was adjustable, but the top half could simply be lifted off to make it a standard desk.The problem was, this desk was extremely bulky, sort of rickety, and noisy. I also wasn't a huge fan of the way it looked. So I recently built a new desk, this time out of iron pipe and a stain wood slab.It's a breeze to build, though I probably didn't go about it the most cost-effective way. Total, it cost around $180 to make, which isn't terrible. But if I had a pipe ...