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I have more questions about the enormously high bed stand in the opening shot. It immediately makes tons of sense (so much otherwise wasted vertical space in a room), but I have never seen such a thing.

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She has a video on that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c

Funnily you can see some coat hingers prototype at the end of the video :).

And while showing that, she says "I promise the next video won't take 3 months to make". 3 Years late:

> I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger

Looking at her video list, she released 20 videos between the bed video and this hanger video. This one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU <- came out about 2 weeks after the bed video. So, she very much kept her promise. Just sayin.

Well, she technically kept her promise, although the emphasis was on the "months" rather than the "3" it seems.

I am upset she put in all that effort and did not stain the wood.

That might be because she's Swedish. As a Scandinavian it's always a bit weird seeing Americans staining wood, it's not really something you'd do, unless you're trying to make it lighter. Americans, and the British, loves staining wood, making it darker. That's kinda the opposite of what you do in Scandinavia. You keep everything light, bright and natural (if possible, pine has a tendency to yellow and that not really fashionable).

It's not because they love staining wood, it's because the predominant species of trees in those areas are those that take better to staining.

In Scandinavia you'll get a lot of it pine, which is one of the types of wood which typically doesn't need staining, especially for indoor applications.

There are light stains that can make the wood grain pop. But you are correct, to my American eye, that unfinished look really detracts from the full effort.

Don’t you need to finish the wood somehow in order to protect it from random stains?

In the Kickstarter video the wood is painted (and she has sensibly removed the goofy leaves on the sides, which were obviously only going to get in the way).

I thought the side walls were there to ensure she did not roll off the bed in the night and die from the fall.

It's called a loft bed - this one would probably be considered a low loft. This kind of bed is also frequently seen in American university dorm rooms.

Ah of course. I had a loft bed in college, though it was hollow underneath for my desk. Seeing it as a less ramshackle structure with built-in drawers was new to me.

Falling hazard.

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