Behind the scenes from a former furniture PM — personal desk setups, product deep-dives, factory dispatches, High Point Market reports, and chair reviews after 40+ hours of sitting.
Scott Fenton spent ten years as a product manager for home-office furniture, killing bad desk designs and visiting factories across three continents. This blog channels that experience into one practical mission: to help remote workers build offices that actually function for eight-hour days — using real measurements, material truths, and no aesthetic filler.
Before Scott Fenton became a furniture product manager, he built a desk from a hollow-core door and two filing cabinets. It cost $47 and taught him more about workspace engineering than any premium setup. Three lessons from that first build still shape every product decision he makes today.
Scott Fenton walks the High Point Market floor and identifies three home-office trends that buyers are betting on for the next 12–18 months. Curved desktops, integrated power and lighting, and desking systems designed for dual-monitor workflows. Real observations from a former PM who's walked this show for a decade.
Scott Fenton spent a full work week in each of these five chairs — not a sit-test in a showroom, but forty-plus hours of actual work. What the spec sheets don't reveal about mesh vs. foam, armrest durability, lumbar that actually supports, and the one chair that gave him back pain within three days.
