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A wood stove.

Just got back from Sweden and the "country style" there is just what you named off. Definitely what you specified. Found a supply and goods store while I was there you can see them at www.gysinge.nu Brilliant Stuff! Enjoy!

This is all so SILLY! Yeah I know "silly"! But it is.
My girl and I bought a Blue Spruce in a 2.5 gallon can and decorate it every year as our X-mas tree. This is year three and it finally graduated to a 5 gallon container. Now it gets the bonzi treatment until we can plant it. Now we get to see "Bruce" year round and never have to drop serious coin on a tree every year. But I still do miss cutting a tree.
I used to go into the forest every year and cut my own tree (& loved doing it) I no longer live in the forest so I can't. Sounds like a crime but it really isn't. The overpopulation of trees in the forest around my home was due to the anti forest fire stance that the public has taken. As a result the forest had way too much downed timber (100 years worth), the one tree a year was actully helping. The year after I moved away the forest service paid a company to company to come in and set things straight. They tore out all the under brush. Took out all the downed timber and cut down all of the "extra" trees leaving behind a healthy mix of species a balence of fir, pine and cedar. It was a good thing too since the next summer some yahoo started a forest fire that made its way through my neighborhood burning down homes that hadn't maintained their tree population properly. If the forest hadn't been cleared out the story would have been a world story instead of a local story as Tahoe City and the local forest burnt to the ground.
Long story short. Buy a tree in a bucket and add it to your garden in the off season or buy one seasonaly. It doesn't really matter. The fake one's are the real crime.

This reads like Aseop's fable- country mouse, city mouse. Tried the city I am definitely a country mouse. If I want noise I can find it or I can make it. I can barely handle trying to sleep in a hotel in NYC but the change of coyotes for screaming people @ 3 am and big ass trucks that shake the building from 4 am to 7 am is .....unique!

Lisa said the same exact thing I was going to. When is cheap furniture going to lose steam anyway? I'm over it!

Snark snark. This is funny. If there are any hesitations build a sub frame of 2x4's trimmed so that they fit just inside the skirt-baseboard-plinth-moulding-facade-structure-casing-wonderhowitholdsthatthingupey thing, and attach the casters to that. You know a square within a square. Removing the "bottom piece" would mess with the lines since the it mirrors the top of the unit. Besides it hiding the structure for the wheels it is a prime canidate for the details of the twofer paint job.
Have fun wit it!!

Sounds like fun!! I almost wish I lived on the west coast just so I could reno apartments like this!
I'd grab a hidden corner or the apartment and start doing tests. Start with wax to polish-remove with vinegar or ammonia, if necessary. If thats no good then sand with 220 or finer and test small samples of different types of finishes. Varathane makes floor finishes that are waterbased. For a green solution look at tung oil or linseed oil from realmilkpaint.com
or biosheild awua resin for floors. So many options. Good luck and have fun with it!

Sorry, we have been harsh. So then I'll add an idea. Here How 'bout this for an option. Still secure and much better. BTW the post that this came from is much better than just this one detail.....

no. with reservations.

I had a standing desk all through college. I earned my degree in 3.5 years, (and no it was not an easy, online, or otherwise college). Maybe the desk had something to do with it, eh?
Also, after visiting Sweden this summer; it was made very apparent to me that standing desks are encouraged in the work place, especially in the government sector. My sister-in-law and her co-workers have adjustable height desks and most of them are all set to the standing height.