advice on stairs
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Advice needed: stairs - is carpet on stairs the only option?
Comments (1)Ditto! Lol. Carpet is much quieter and safer (I've slid down my previous 'all wooden' steps before now!) but I hate it too. If you have good treads, I'd go for a stylish runner which looks nicer. Get a busy pattern ie stripes or funky geometries to keep the dirt less obvious....See Moredesign advice for the staircase
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Comments (43)hi all, update is I have finally found a photo of someones stairs done in Brintons timorous beastie yellow Ruskin butterfly and its made me decide we are definitely 100% going for this as I love it (see attached pics) on stairs and landing... Floor in hall will be oak herringbone parquet, just wall colour to decide and we have bought new tall skirting so colour to paint this also? i have attcahed apic of the hall currently so you can see our front door with stain glass.. As Ive mentioned before the banister and spindles will be replaces with square spindles with an oak top banister and oak end cap - similar to this houzz pic ... So just to deicide on wall colour and new skirting colour... I really like f&b light blue in a hall with oak parquet but I don't feel this will go with the carpet... Kitchen and dining room will be one of the sage shades and lounge Wimborne white and downpipe......See Morestair paint - non slip?
Comments (9)Ours is just that, and the one that we have just finished for a client was around 150 Years old. It's a labour of love, getting the paint off, and obviously as the stairs are very old and likely to be uneven, and worn in patches, it might not be possible to remove every single bit of paint, however, as you say, why would you want to rip the character out of it, we embrace Shabby Chic round here and our two dogs help with that too.. So, for the last client, we scraped as much paint of as was possible with a flat blade, then sanded with heavy grit 40-60 paper to get most of what was left off. Then sanded with 120 grit to smooth. The stairs were then oiled in No Nonsense clear oil from Screwfix as they still had a beautiful patina. Two coats usually suffices and you are much less likely to slip on them. The risers required less work as they were being re-painted, so just a normal sand over and re-paint!...See More
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This is what our carpenter has done - we needed to make the space under the stairs more usable and open as we are making the entrance hall smaller to make a bigger kitchen - think glasss is going in between
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Do you mean a stair runner? If it's a standard wooden staircase, you could paint it. Glass balustrades look lovely with an oak staircase.
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