House to Home Pt. 4

The other office project that I knew wouldn’t be tough, but I left lingering were the stairs. I didn’t want to touch the stairs until I knew I was done making a mess on or around them. I think that time has finally come. Since I had primer for another project, which I’ll get to later, I decided that it was time to take care of those old and nasty looking stairs. They needed a touch-up. They needed some TLC. They needed a couple coats of paint and some carpet treads. 

So… I cleaned the stairs, laid down some primer, topped it off with some of the trim paint that we have been using and then stapled down some tread carpets. And… Voila, c’est fini! Well, there is still the railing and spindles...but that will come when I have a little more free time.

Enjoy!

The view from the top of the nasty stairs.

The view from the bottom of the nasty stairs after we wiped them down.

The stairs were then primed, and after that dried all the seams were caulked. This was actually good because it stopped all of the stairs from creaking or squeaking...except for one, but it's not bad at all.

Second coat of primer from the top.

Second coat of primer from the bottom. Renae actually liked it, and just wanted me to leave them like this. I thought about it, but felt like they would still be unfinished.

Of course Logan had to come help his daddy when I was putting down the semi-gloss on the sides and treads.

Then he realized I was making my way down, and safely guided my foot down to the next step.

Then when he got me safely to the ground, he began inspecting some of my work on cut ins.

The next day I was back at it, and taped off the stairs for the blue coat.

Logan thought that he would give me some tips and pointers before I began working. He's quite a natural.

I used the same blue that is on the bottom half of the office walls to tie it in with the room. At this point I was very pleased with how it was turning out.

After the paint dried, I added black carpet sections to the stair treads.

Looks a bit different from that first shot doesn't it?