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Mar. 3rd, 2014 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynOh, and I bought a bed this weekend, too. Bostonwood had some nice platform models and a headboard with bookshelving cubbyholes. My current bed is all right, but if you sit on it wrong some of the slats holding up the mattress pop out, and I've never been able to tighten it adequately to prevent that. IKEA doesn't seem to much like being disassembled for sale, reassembled, then disassembled again for the move to Massachusetts and reassembled a second time. I'll be listing it on Craigslist once the new one is finished and ready to go. I doubt reassembling it will do it any structural integrity favors in its new home, but this is Boston. There will always be college students and someone, I'm sure, will make use of it.
I'll be taking a stab at finishing this one in a marginally less environmentally nasty manner than the dresser. Minwax sells a stain prep treatment with half the volatile organic compounds of the regular stain prep, so I'm going with that; they have a stain with significantly fewer VOCs than usual, too, but it was only available in gallon size and I'm not staining that much wood. I also got a shellac to use for the exterior finish instead of polyurethane. Shellac's supposed to be best for floors not subject to a great deal of scuffing, heat, or moisture, or other furniture surfaces. That describes the bed pretty nicely, plus it's a renewable resource since it comes from, well, bugs. Fewer VOCs than a polyurethane varnish, too, so hopefully it won't screw up the air in my apartment too much. I'll be testing it out on a nightstand first. We'll see how it goes.
I'll be taking a stab at finishing this one in a marginally less environmentally nasty manner than the dresser. Minwax sells a stain prep treatment with half the volatile organic compounds of the regular stain prep, so I'm going with that; they have a stain with significantly fewer VOCs than usual, too, but it was only available in gallon size and I'm not staining that much wood. I also got a shellac to use for the exterior finish instead of polyurethane. Shellac's supposed to be best for floors not subject to a great deal of scuffing, heat, or moisture, or other furniture surfaces. That describes the bed pretty nicely, plus it's a renewable resource since it comes from, well, bugs. Fewer VOCs than a polyurethane varnish, too, so hopefully it won't screw up the air in my apartment too much. I'll be testing it out on a nightstand first. We'll see how it goes.
