Featured Stores & Deals
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Custom Chairs
From his studio in Grantsboro, North Carolina Michael Brown creates a variety of handcrafted custom-made chairs. Each chair is designed to fit your height, weight and inside leg measurement to provide an adequate ratio of torso to leg support.
Custom Furniture
The Custom Made.com website connects local artists and fabricators with customers. Their fine furniture section has a wide range of furniture available from media and discplay cabinets to tables, dressers and armoires.
Living XL
features an indoor furniture section that is almost exclusively seating made to handle larger bodies and a patio & outdoor furniture section with sturdy pieces built to handle heavy use and the elements
Frederick Bed Central
Custom mattress and boxsprings from $600 to $3,000. They do custom waterbeds too. For more information call Frederick Bed Central on 212-683-8322
Kimpton Group
The “Tall Room” Beds found in the Hotel Monaco are custom-made 96-inch Sealy Postulux 700 beds and are available by special order. Standard sizes also available.
Tall Paul’s Tall Beds
feature long mattresses and beds up to 8 feet long as well as more moderately priced options like bed extenders, plus long sheets and linens to fit all of them!
Desks For Tall People (DFTP)
Puddle Town Woodworking now offers a line of desks designed to fit tall people. These DFTP desks come in a variety of styles from modern executive (right) to more traditional styles. All the desks in the DFTP range are heirloom quality with dovetail drawers and under mount slides. They are also free of particle board free as well as being free of formaldehyde.
BodyBilt Office Chair
The BodyBilt Big & Tall ergonomic chair was designed for hours of comfort. They have a range of chairs to accommodate people over 6ft1 and many of them are strong enough for people weighing 300 to 700 pounds. BodyBilt offers a number of styles and customization options within each range of chairs.
Neutral Posture
offers a line of “big & tall” office chairs that are sized for people up to seven feet tall. The line of tall office chairs includes four styles from basic task chairs to executive style.
Tall Task Chair
Tall Paul’s Tall Mall offers a tall task chair in two sizes in a variety of colors that accommodate seat heights of 16″-25″
XL Office Chairs
While they’re geared more towards “big” rather than “tall” the Office Chairs at Living XL are height adjustable and many raise the seatpan to 25″
Handle Extender
MBS Solutions makes handle extenders for strollers and lawn mowers. You can add up to 8 inches to a baby stroller allowing taller parents to walk upright and helps prevent you from kicking the stoller as you walk. Either type of handle extender attaches with velcro and has a cushy foam grip.
Ironing Board
The Brabantia Ironing Board at Williams-Sonoma is designed with ergonomics in mind, this sturdy stainless-steel ironing board adjusts to four different heights up to 38″ and includes an iron rest for right- or left-handed use. A handy fold-out rack holds freshly pressed items. It’s made by Brabantia, a family-owned Dutch company specializing in high-quality housewares since 1919.
Ironing Options
The Improvements Website or catalog has a number of ironing options that could accommodate taller people from table top ironing boards to stow away ironing board/cabinet combos that could be mounted higher on a wall to be used at just the right height
Cutting Board
AWP Butcherblock.com makes an entire line of cutting boards with taller cooks in mind. The basic board has legs available up to 10″ tall. Custom sized for your kitchen and height. The board has non-skid feet to keep it from slipping. They also make taller models from 11-13″+ and they can customize any of their products to accommodate your ergonomic needs.
Tall Paul’s Tall Mall
is a labor of love from a tall guy who went looking for chairs, dining sets, height adjusters, yard gloves and more, the Tall Mall Website features many household products to make the tall life easier!
Living XL
Most of their products are geared more toward big rather than tall, but the Living XL Website does stock a nice assortment of quality products and it’s worth a look around.
Bespoke Cycle SF
Specializing in custom bikes with frames from Serotta, Seven, and Guru that allow fit, form, and function to all come together creating a connection between a taller rider and bike that is seamless. Bespoke Cycle SF will work with you to build a bike that remains comfortable and functional for years.
Bicycle Renaissance
Offering a wide range of bikes in lots of different sizes, Bicycle Renaissance is a staple for riders of all sizes in NYC. Their custom frames range from $900 to $5,000. They don’t have a website, but one of their fans made this page for Bicycle Renaissance.
Cannondale
Although neither their website nor catalog list it, Cannondale occasionally does a production run of their caad5 frame in a 66cm size. Any Cannondale dealer should be able to get the details if they don’t carry the bike in stock.
Tall Rides
Rusty buys new and used larger-sized bike frames and customizes
them to accommodate a taller rider’s inseam length (from floor to pubic bone), flexibility, arm and torso length and riding style. The Tall Rides Website includes bikes for sale and a blog for information about bicycles.
Zinn Cycles
Lennard Zinn is 6 ft6 and a former U.S. National Team rider. His unique compact frame design has been tested on the biggest and tallest riders and provides sturdy, ergonomic custom bicycles. With their “Big Series” they specialize in bikes that fit, perform, and won’t shimmy.
