Peak Standing Desk: When Britain Buys, Month by Month

Furniture in Fashion finds no published UK source recording standing desk demand by month, so this report names no peak and addresses the constraint that actually decides success: vertical space. A standing desk is the only desk category where a room must accommodate two working heights, and the problems we see almost always come from planning the seated position and meeting the standing one later. Window heads, sloping loft ceilings, shelving fitted above a seated desk and cables cut to seated length are the four recurring collisions. We set out full travel of 72cm to 120cm, standing height of 95cm to 120cm set from elbow height rather than a listing, frame feet extending 60cm to 70cm, and cable slack matching the full travel. Our recommendation is to mark the standing height on the wall in tape before ordering and check what crosses the line, since a desk that is awkward to raise stops being raised....