The Bekant Standing Desk is like most IKEA products: Affordable, reasonably well built, and not that attractive. The 160×80 cm particleboard has rounded corners and smoothed edges which helps with wrist comfort, and you can fit plenty of stuff on it. Mine is currently holding a 27” external monitor supported by a monitor arm, my laptop, external speakers, a pretty large desk pad, and everything else you’ll find in my Desk gear category.
The large aluminium feet and heavy steel legs do a good job at keeping everything stable when it’s raised to standing height, but if I’m being honest, I mostly use it sitting down these days. There’s a removable stretchy webbing below the desk for cable management, and two buttons for raising and lowering it to anywhere between 65 and 125 cm. I’m 192 cm tall, and the maximum height has been more than enough for me.
The IKEA Bekant standing desk is not a looker, but as cheap, large standing desks go, it’s probably one of the more reliable options. I’m looking to replace mine pretty soon with something that looks better.
