The wife and I are looking for beds for our home. We are less than a mile from the ocean in warm humid Hawaii.
How would a metal bed with a Magnesium Pewter Finish stand up in this environment?
Sounds like a color name (and a wretchedly overwrought one at that) rather than any technique or process or material. Hard to say what it’s durability might be. A good, non-ferrous outer layer might endure even in salty humidity. A plasticized sealer might be okay, or even better if never scratched.
But it’s the actual material, not a brand or color name, that will tell.
This. I Googled “magnesium pewter bed frame” and got a lot of hits; This Amazon entry even refers to it as “magnesium pewter color.” Pewter, the metal, is an alloy of specific composition that does not include magnesium.
Yeah. One of my cars is (technically) “Lamborghini Titanio” - Titanium - but I just say “It’s the silver one over there.”
OTOH, I do tell people the Mustang is Gulfstream Aqua because that’s a specific and well known color in the community. Actually, it’s two colors, but I won’t tell that horror story.
If the OP can provide a link to the bed frame, the materials info is probably there. If the coating is well -done, I can’t see why the metal and finish would have any shorter lifespan near the Hawaiian coast than anywhere else.
Can’t go wrong with wood:)