Mr. Funk E. Dude

I'm the type of person who can't let puzzles go unsolved. If there's a problem, I firmly believe that there's a solution. I approach my life in the same way. If there's something that I want, I find a way to get it.

Most of the time.

This time, I'm stuck.

I don't have a lot of space to myself at home. When I do my livestreams, I do them from the living room, sitting in a couch chair, with a green screen behind me, and a rolling laptop desk holding my laptop, two Ipads, and a mic in front of me. Behind that stands a ring light.

I live stream a few days a week from 2pm to 4pm. I have a few loyal viewers, but I think I would have more if I moved my time slot to 6pm to 8pm. There's a problem though.

You see, once a month, a friend from Canada comes for ten days for work, and sleeps in the living room on the pull out couch. This isn't a problem when I'm livestreaming at 2pm, but would be impossible after 6pm when he get's back from his office. Which means there would be two weeks out of the month where I couldn't stream at those hours.

The only other space I have is my bedroom that I share with my girlfriend.

There's not a lot of space in there thanks to the huge bed sitting in the middle of it. I do have about a 4-5ft space where I could fit a small table for my older laptop that I keep in the bedroom and a chair to sit in. All I would need is to bring up my green screen, and I would be good to go.

The smart thing to do, I think, considering the lack of space, would be to use a folding chair and a folding table so that I can store them against a wall and not take up space in the room permanently. Finding a folding table is easy. The part that amazed me, was how difficult it would be to find a folding chair that fits my needs.

If you didn't know, there are only a few types of folding chairs.

The most common type are the metal ones that sometimes have padding on the seat and the backrest. You see them in school gyms or churches most of the time. My problem is that most sit about an inch or two to low for me to sit comfortably with the knee that I just had surgery on.

The next kind are the collapsible ones that people take to parks or the beach. The problem with these are that they all sit low to the ground, making it difficult to sit at a desk.

The last kind are commonly referred to as “clam shells”. These are usually just cloth giant round pillows attached to some folding legs. Again, too low for a desk.

And this is where we come to the part that amazes me. You would think in a time where more people have smaller spaces to live in, that someone would have come up with the idea of comfortable work folding chairs that are meant to be sat in for hours at a time? BUT THERE AREN'T ANY. I looked.

Also, to make matters worse, I don't want to spend any money, or at least, very little.

So, I'm stuck. I can't find the chair I want, and even if I did, I don't have the money for it. My only other option that I can see, is to build one myself. Fortunately I do have one of those metal folding chairs with the padded back rest and seat. I think that if I build a platform for the chair to sit on, I can increase the height, and I should be able to find something to put on the back rest to increase support.

Now I have to figure out how I'm going to do all of that.

Wish me luck.