Buying Guide: 16 Essentials to Smarten Up Your Home Office

This height-adjustable, sitting-and-standing desk is configurable for the way you like to work. [It starts at $500](http://www.upliftdesk.com), and you pick different desktop sizes and materials, then add on options like wheels, drawers, keyboard trays, and cable management features. It goes from sitting height to standing height with the click of a button. The desk has enough brains to store four height settings, allowing two people to program their optimal sitting and standing heights.

The [Leap](https://www.steelcase.com/products/office-chairs/leap/) (starting at $940) is a great chair for any desk, from standing to height-adjustable to traditional. Ergonomically designed to keep you moving—and your blood flowing—even while sitting, the Leap can be configured with different fabrics and arm types, even a headrest. Set it up as a rolling swivel chair or a stool with a footrest, complementing both standing and sitting desk configurations.

You love the desk you already have. You and your desk have accomplished a lot together. But you sometimes wish you had a standing desk, too. The adjustable [HumanScale QuickStand Lite](http://www.humanscale.com/products/product.cfm?group=quickstandlite) ($600) attaches to your desk so you can raise your keyboard, mouse and display, letting you work while standing whenever you need a little extra pep.

Every home office needs a printer and a scanner. It's tough to do business without either. (Think of all those contracts you have to sign!) You need to get one that works, and one that isn’t so slow you start calling it worse names than the guy who cut you off on the freeway last week. Brother’s [Wireless Compact Laser Printer and Scanner](https://amzn.com/B00MFG57ZK) is a solid model, plus you can enable its Amazon Dash Replenishment feature that automatically ships new ink whenever you’re low.