As I continue planning my move from vertical to horizontal workspace I've been trying to figure out how I want to raise my computer monitor. This image from Monica, one of AT:SF's Small Cool 2008 entries, gave me an idea...
DIY Project: Options for Eye Catching Monitor Stands
When my home office was squeezed into my closet, my monitor was standing on a Crate and Barrel shelf installed in the wall.
I'm not psyched with it though since my monitor base is a little too big for the shelf so I work with this overbearing stress that my monitor is just going to topple over.
I'm thinking of bringing my monitor back to earth -- a.k.a my new Ikea desk.
When I saw Monica's photos I thought the glass blocks used as a partition in her house could be used to make a nice, clean, monitor stand. With four blocks, I could stand them up in a two-by-two grid and place my monitor on top.
Other options are to get Ikea's display boxes and create the same grid under the monitor and use the boxes to showcase tchotckes, which I have plenty of. Or I could get these wood kids blocks, paint them, and put them in a similar grid.
Speaking of kids blocks, what if I hot glued alphabet blocks into a sturdy stand? These French alphabet blocks could bring some Euro class to my very childish idea.
Thoughts?
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Please use displays when referencing, well, displays. I thought this was about stands for my monitors (as in audio production).
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Oh, geez, mscot. I think relatively few people have monitors (as in audio production) in their homes. Suck it up.
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what if you get a piece of glass large enough for your monitor and use the wooden blocks as legs you can store your keyboard underneath, you can always double up on them for the height.
view xavier's profile
this is supposed to be a tech blog, they should at least get the terminology correct. even our IT monkeys at work call them displays. ;-)
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mscot- Monitor is still an accepted term for what we are talking about here. Its also the name of a lizard, I can only hope no reptilophiles stumble upon this page or there will be hell to pay. I wonder how your IT guys would feel about being referred to as monkeys. I also wonder how monkeys would feel about it, as if they were some non-valued form of life... very sad, I imagine.
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Aren't they called computer monitors? Best Buy has a monitors category and I'm pretty sure they aren't audio monitors. Are you a Mac user? Maybe you're just used to Apple's naming convention -- the Cinema Display.
view lil' soso's profile
That's just silly, a reptile wouldn't stay put on a stand.
view mscot's profile
When talking about displays, please reference them as "flat-panel computer displays" (preferably by size, make, model, cost, color and general use) as I first came to this tech blog looking for solutions for my product display case at my shop. Your careless choice of wording was misleading, which both confused and infuriated me as I live in a fear-based world and spend much of my energy vainly attempting to force everyone to conform to my narrow needs.
... or just call them monitors.
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... and don't leave any of them - audio, video or reptile - in the hall else they become officious.
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