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Gazette

Office furniture, minus the homework. Buying guides, honest product talk, and notes from behind the scenes at Deskwell, written by the people who actually do the job. Some of it will save you a bad purchase. Some of it is Ben talking about the website again.

Height Settings and Memory Presets: Getting the Most From an Electric Desk

You bought the sit stand desk. Now find your two heights, store them as presets, and build the sit-stand rhythm that survives past the first fortnight.

Ben16 October 2026

Desk Screens: Privacy, Focus, and a Bit of Peace

The sightline maths behind screen heights, what acoustic classes actually mean, and which fixing fits which desk. Ben on desk screens, with numbers.

Ben9 October 2026

Ex VAT Prices: What the Number on the Page Actually Means

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Ben2 October 2026

Reviews Are Live: What You Think, on the Page

Customer reviews are now on every product page. How they work, why the three-star ones stay up, and what we do with what you tell us.

Ben25 September 2026

Corner and L Shaped Desks: More Surface, Same Footprint

When a corner desk earns its keep: dual screens, left or right hand returns, and the four measurements to take before you fall for the photo.

Ben18 September 2026

Desk Power: Sockets and Modules Where You Need Them

In-desk power modules, pop-ups and clamp-on sockets: ending the daily crawl under the desk, one grommet at a time, with the watts and fuse ratings that matter.

Ben11 September 2026

Search, Filters, and Finding the Right Chair in Three Clicks

How search and filtering work on deskwell.co.uk, why the categories are named for how people shop rather than how suppliers file, and what the site deliberately does not do.

Ben4 September 2026

Standing Desk Myths: What the Research Actually Says

Standing all day was never the goal. An honest look at the calorie claims, the smoking comparison, and why the height you sit at matters less than how often you change it.

Ben28 August 2026

Monitor Arms: Reclaim Your Desk, Spare Your Neck

The cheapest ergonomic upgrade in the building is not the chair. It is the thing holding your screen, and most of us are still using the stand it came with.

Ben21 August 2026

Nearly There: Our Online Shop Is About to Open Its Doors

443 listings, 21,397 product codes, full specifications on all of it and 167 things you can spin round in 3D. What is live now, what lands next, and where the rough edges are.

Ben14 August 2026

Product Photos, 3D Models, and Why We Bother

What does the back look like? A photograph rarely says. How we build product pages, why we model furniture in 3D, and the fiddly parts nobody is meant to notice.

Ben6 August 2026

Why We're Building Our Own Shop Rather Than Renting Someone Else's

Renting a shop from a big platform would have had us trading months earlier. Here is what it would have cost us, and why we built the thing ourselves instead.

Ben30 July 2026