Our carpet is now in! There are a couple of cuts I am not sure about, but I will live with it for a couple of days and see if they bother me as much as I think they do now. We still have a few more spindles to paint, so we'll be extra careful around the new runner. I think it looks good overall. The dark paint may be a little light for the black band we chose on the runner, but again, we'll live with it first.
We went with a crossley carpet called cafe au lait with a small check pattern. We added a 2 inch band down the sides. When the installers unrolled it, they immediately commented to each other on how awesome it looked as they had not seen one done with the large band. I guess that is generally more common with area rugs. I am so glad we paid more to have that great band done, it really completes the look.
We were at 38 man hours. Since I posted last, we have added
6 more painting hours to go
2 hours to install carpet, although they were not my personal hours of course.
Overall start to finish
56 man hours. Phew, what a job.
56 man hours. Phew, what a job.
3 comments:
Wow...if you put this much time, attention and effort into a stair case, I can only imagine what the rest of your beautiful home looks like! Well done!
Thanks Berta. It was a pain i the butt to do, but we are so glad it's done :)
I absolutely love it!! We are planning to update the 80s style of our, new to us, home. There is too much oak trim and stairs. I want modern clean contemporary decor so planning to replace all the trim. I thought I would end up leaving the oak railing because it is too expensive to replace it and the quality and stability of it is good so could not justify the replacement. Now that I have seen your pictures I know I can do the same. Thanks so much.
I enjoy painting so I know I can do this. Did you simply fill in the riser and step surfaces to smooth them and then paint them? You didn't recover the surface with MDF or wood?
I may have more questions to post to your blog. Thanks so much
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