Our friend, Sarah Milstein, made a treadmill desk for $160.
Ever since learning about treadmill desks a couple of years ago from this New York Times story, I’ve been eager to try one. Because while I like walking, I always find it hard to carve out time for exercise. A tread-desk, it seemed, might magically solve my exercise scheduling prob. Except the appealing versions start at $4,400.
I kept hearing, though, that you could cobble one together for next to nothing. You just have to score a used treadmill and build some sort of desk on or above it. So when facing a lot of time working from home this summer, I decided to revisit the idea. Here’s how I did it.