But then the overall color was too light. And I just kept sanding lightly and strategically (meaning that I did more sanding on any areas that seemed particularly dark and splotchy) until I had exposed enough grain for my liking. So I sanded the entire desk by hand using 220-grit sandpaper. While I’m not a fan of wood grain on pine, I did think that the birch top had pretty grain, and I hated to cover it up so much. But the finish seemed really dark, and the stain had covered up most of the wood grain. It was fine at that point, and I could have just put some polyurethane on it and called it good. Here’s how it looked after one coat, brushed on with a paint brush, and after it had dried for a few hours. It’s somewhere in between, so getting a similar finish on different types of wood is fairly easy with the darker colors. This particular stain is not a penetrating stain, but it’s also not a gel stain. I started by staining the entire desk using Varathane Premium Stain in the color Carrington.
But in the end, I’m very pleased with how it turned out. The base of the desk and the trim around the desktop is pine, but the plywood top is birch, so I was afraid that getting it all to match might be a problem.
And after spending a bit of time working out all of the room details in my mind (especially how I would use the golden yellow velvet fabric that I had originally intended for a new headboard), I finally had my plan worked out, and decided to go with a stained finish on the writing desk. So yesterday, I got to work on the finish.
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