hello I am wanderer001 and no this is not a review of a folding chair this is what I was using in my
home office when I was told that I will be working from home for the foreseeable future
I was woefully unprepared with my home office setup because well I never had a home office
before I would normally just sit on a couch and edit videos and do things that way now I have a
home office working from home for my primary job as well this was not cutting it so I upgraded
to this which was a hand-me-down chair from a friend and it was pretty much falling apart on
me and was not the most comfortable enter the OFM a central collection racing-style bonded
leather gaming chair I needed a better chair for my home office and this one fit the bill for all
of the things that I was looking for I will say starting off primarily I got this because well
it was cheap this is a hundred dollar gaming style racing chair - and this was the only chair that I
could find that would deliver during the pandemic so I've been testing this and using it on a daily
basis for over a month right now and I will say there are a lot of things that I like about this
there are a few things that I'm not too happy with but let's talk about the chair itself for starters
coming down here to the seat you are looking at having a minimum height from floor to the bottom
of the seat of 16 and a half inches or at its max height setting of 20.5 inches so you've got a nice
height range there the seat itself is fairly well cushioned and you'll notice that it has
mesh accents along with this bonded leather now primarily I was looking for something that had
this mesh because well I have cats and keeping them out of this room has been a hassle so that
they don't claw up this chair now the seat itself is 20 and a half inches up front at its widest and
tapers down to the back being 18 inches across there there is 19 inches of usability in the
seat from the furthest point to the front I will say that while the padding up front has remained
fairly plush in the month that I've been using it back here where I actually kind of lean in and
sit because well there's a bump up there that were going to talk about a minute but back here where I
primarily lean the padding has kind of diminished it still doesn't make this uncomfortable to sit
in but it is definitely noticeable and primarily you're sitting further back as opposed to up here
because it is a gaming style racing chair because right there seven inches up from this portion here
is the lumbar bump now you will notice that it kind of sticks out a little more than the rest
of the chair there and this is a non adjustable lumbar bump so that's why I'm sitting right there
all the way in the back and if you're not a tall person or shorter this lumbar bump might not work
for you for me it's not bad it's it's about where I would expect a lumbar bump to sit for me the
chair itself here is nineteen and a half inches at its widest point midpoint here you're looking
at 19 inches and then up here at the headrest you are looking at 12 inches and the back has about
26 inches from top to bottom where it connects to the base of the seat so depending on your height
is how this will sit on you now you will see that the lumbar area here is nicely padded and you do
have some nice padding along here the middle also is somewhat padded not as squishy as here or here
the headrest is also padded nicely I have no problems with that whatsoever so we're gonna
spin this around to kind of take a look at the back get an idea of what the bonded leather there
looks like on the back and I will say for the most part construction is fairly well but I have
noticed in a couple spots not as noticeable on the back except for like here in the corner it's
not it's not great and I'm gonna say you get what you pay for in this instance but again a hundred
dollar gaming chair not terrible so up here you can kind of see where I've been leaning it's kind
of stretching it a little bit but that's not bad part of the reason I like this style gaming chair
is because of these collapsible arms now again fit and finish you'll notice left side there's a gap
right side there's not a gap it's not terrible but the overall fit and finish is not what you would
get with some of the more expensive style gaming chairs however this gaming chair since you know
I have to be on a lot of conference calls now I will admit it doesn't really look like a gaming
chair when you're sitting in it so let's actually take a look at what it looks like to have a person
sitting in the chair so here you can see I'm not a terribly large gentleman my back is resting up
against the back right here so I do have that lumbar support sitting exactly where I want it
you can see across my chest here I have these nice side areas where I kind of just lean into
the headrest itself you know is a little short for me but if I'm just gonna lean into it it's gonna
do what I want it to do the armrests themselves are pretty good for me one of the reasons I wanted
collapsible armrests are that when I'm working at a desk armrests always got in the way for me now
these are nice large armrests and I'm happy that they fold up and out of the way because then I
can really get close to either my computer or my actual desk but the one problem with having the
armrest built into the chair itself is you don't get adjustable Heights with this these are always
going to be where the arm rests are which are either going to be 26 inches from the floor or 29
inches from the floor depending on where you have this seat situated now the armrests themselves
are very nicely padded and I'm willing to make that sacrifice of not having adjustable heights
because even with adjustable height armrests one of the big problems that I have is that
even when I adjust them so their lowest settings I would still hit them on a table now the maximum
weight for this particular chair is 275 pounds so again I'm not a large gentleman myself I've had no
I have seen reviews for people who are the larger saying that you know even 250-260 and still a very
comfortable chair even with the padding down here so coming in and looking at closer detail of the
armrests you'll notice that you have the mesh up top here and then you're bonded leather along the
sides it is very squishy and very comfortable now the wheels down here again this is a fairly thick
carpet for having something like this on but the wheels do move fairly freely and you do not have
to worry this is a adjustable up down and tilt back so you can raise and lower this and if you
wanted to tilt back it does not tilt back all the way so you'll just get a little tilt ok so let's
talk about being somebody who's never actually put something like this together so here we go this is
what you get in the box when you first open it all of this is put together using an allen key and a
bunch of screws they pretty much use the same screws for all of this and I will say it took
me probably 40 minutes of putting it together with the included tools if I had used something better
than the allen key that came with it I probably could have put it together faster I will say what
I did not realize is that the arms here are actually what hold the chair together so to
speak this piece here is built-in through the arm itself and this holds your seat to the back now
for installation of the back to the seat I highly recommend that you have a second person hold this
in place because it is a pain in the butt to do there are these finishing things so this
have little cap here there are finishing caps here here and here and on the other side I do not have
them in place because what I have found and it's probably my own fault because I'm very rough on
chairs in general I have found generally within a week or week and a half I will notice that there's
a little give in the back and that's because those side screws have loosened so I just keep
the finishing caps off of there so I can get in there with the allen key and tighten them up you
know once a week once every other week it's not terrible so I mean if you're looking for a racing
style office chair to up your game or just need an office chair and this is all you can find for the
price of a hundred dollars depending on where you get it you can't really go wrong like I've been
using it for over a month now and I can say it is much better than the folding chair and it is
better than that other chair I had so if you were in the market for a new chair I would recommend
checking out the OFM a central gaming style chair I have been wanderer001 if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching