About

I'm GuanHua Li. I'm 23, from Guangdong, China, and I'm finishing my senior year at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

I live off campus in a 2B2B with three roommates. My room is 9 by 10 feet. My rent is $750 after splitting. After rent and groceries I have about $400 a month, which is not a lot when you're furnishing an apartment.

Why I started this

In 2024 I bought a $30 folding chair from Meijer because it was cheap and I needed something to sit on. Two years later the backrest snapped. When I went looking for a replacement, every "best office chair" article assumed I had a home office and a budget I don't have.

So I started writing down what I actually found: which chairs fit under a 30-inch desk, which desks fit in a 9-foot-wide room, what the real difference is between a $150 chair and a $450 chair.

How I write these

I read the spec sheets, I read the reviews (including the 1-star ones), and where I can, I look at the product in person at a store. When I haven't used something myself, I say so on the page.

I don't accept payment for rankings. If a link is an affiliate link, it's disclosed at the bottom of that page.

Contact

Email: hello@roomresetguide.com