DIY Our 1970's House Makeover Part 6: The Hardwood Stairs in addition to Entryway Makeover

The Hardwood Stairs together with Entryway Makeover DIY Our 1970's House Makeover Part 6: The Hardwood Stairs together with Entryway Makeover

Hey ya'll! It's update day!
We've made a lot of progress on the stairs together with entryway inwards the past times couplet weeks, together with although I actually wanted it to live finished earlier I showed you, it merely isn't.

I know you lot guys yet desire to know what's going on though, thus consider today a progress report.

I'm contemplating changing the refer of my spider web log to LiveLoveSnail.

So, let's acquire started.

I'm the commencement to acknowledge that our solid was a full armpit when nosotros commencement moved in.

The entryway was ane of the worst offenders. It had dark orangish parquet floors that were damaged together with discolored, together with I basically counted the days until I could rip it up.

The step runway wasn't much better. It wrapped around the entire entryway together with into the dining room, together with was visible from every angle.

But I knew from hateful solar daytime ane that this solid had a lot of potential.

A few months later moving in, I painted the step runway white. It made things a fleck to a greater extent than tolerable, but at the terminate of the day, nosotros yet had an entryway amongst parquet floors together with 2 sets of stairs covered inwards carpet.

Sidenote: See that dark pit downwards there? That's the lower degree of my separate degree house. It's currently destroyed past times cats together with renovation debris, but one of these days nosotros are going to enterprise downwards at that spot together with verbalize all virtually it. It's nearly one-half of the house, together with it's inwards a higher house reason (not similar a typical basement), thus there's a lot to verbalize about.

I'll in all probability conduct hold a few months to relax...to motion all my slice of furniture dorsum in...to instruct myself how to live normal again...to swallow white patato chips. But later that, it's on.

Anyways, thus when nosotros lastly spoke (after the flooring stain debacle) the dining room was beingness used equally a hoarding infinite for all of the entryway flooring.

And the stairs were finally beingness installed.

Unfortunately I forgot to pigment the step risers earlier they were installed, thus I got to pass a few fun hours post-installation taping off the stairs, testing my balancing skills, together with epitome them amongst the greatest of precision.

Add that to my renovation listing of 'lessons learned inwards hindsight'.

And now, since then, the novel step runway has finally been built.

It's yet merely raw wood, together with I yet conduct hold to pigment it, but oh glorious day, it's installed together with create for its debut.

I worked amongst our contractor to come upwards up amongst a design, together with thus he basically built it inwards a day. I was totally mesmerized past times the entire procedure together with learned thus much merely past times creeping around the corner together with staring at him.
#sorrysir

I'm patently no woodworker, but inwards the simplest of terms, I chose uncomplicated rectangular balusters amongst chunky newel posts at each corner together with at the end.
It took quite a piece to create upwards one's heed on a pattern (Who knew how many options at that spot were for balusters?! Illegal.), but ultimately I went amongst something uncomplicated that I knew I would live happy amongst for the long haul.

As for the pigment situation, side past times side week, I'll live using a pigment sprayer for the first time together with epitome the entire affair white. Since nosotros conduct hold an entire step runway to pigment together with and since nosotros are installing all novel trim down (that also needs to live painted), Jesse together with I decided this would live a skillful fourth dimension to conk ahead together with brand things easier on ourselves past times buying a pigment sprayer.
So basically, I've wanted a pigment sprayer my entire adult life together with all my dreams are coming true. And when I unopen my eyes at night, I dream of myself dancing amongst a pigment sprayer inwards hand.

Or something similar that.

I'm also thinking virtually epitome merely the go past times handrail black. Kinda similar this, but I would maintain the newel posts white.

Source: House Beautiful

And thus possibly epitome the within of the forepart door black.
But maybe not.
I'm sitting correct on go past times of the fence, unsure virtually anything together with everything.
I've conk totally convinced that ripping your solid apart simultaneously rips your encephalon apart.

My programme is to pigment everything white commencement together with reckon what it looks like, together with thus conk from there. If it merely feels similar white overload, we'll experiment.
And if my experiment sucks, we'll merely pigment it back.

As for the stone wall, you lot guys conduct hold been super curious virtually my plans. And I'm thus glad. I told you lot virtually it because I secretly actually wanted to know what you lot thought. Your feedback is ever actually great, together with sometimes it helps me reckon things from a perspective I haven't yet seen.

Basically, something weird happened later the lite floors were installed, together with the walls were given a fresh coat of my favorite novel white paint. I no longer abhor the stone wall. That beingness said, I'm yet on the scrap virtually it, thus I mightiness yet practise something. However, until I know for certain what I want, I'm belongings off on whatever changes.
Sidenote: This entire infinite was painted this calendar week amongst Benjamin Moore Simply White (mixed inwards Behr pigment because I'm inexpensive similar that). I've basically spent the past times 2 weeks of my life epitome the house, together with I conduct hold thus much to part virtually that, thus we're going to verbalize virtually all the novel pigment colors together with expression at the balance of the rooms next week.

Here's how the novel step runway looks from the other angle, looking into the dining room together with kitchen.

Pardon my Swiffer.

And Jesse's Bass magnet.

We yet conduct hold to practise all of the trimwork (that's all we're working on for the side past times side couplet weeks), but it makes me pretty happy to reckon how far we've come upwards since nosotros commencement moved in.

It's merely ane of those moments where I kinda crumple into a happy lump on the ground.

There were thus many times during the past times 10 weeks where I legitimately idea everything would merely live a disaster. So, it's a actually prissy feeling to live able to expression around together with honey what I see.

Meanwhile, Tootie together with Cheese seem to live totally confused past times their novel environment. They've been allowed to roam gratis for virtually a calendar week now, together with it seems to conk ane of 2 ways.

#1: Total bliss together with freedom, chasing each other around similar miniature buffaloes, high on life. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot to see, a lot to do.

Not a minute to lose.

#2. Total befuddlement, nervous virtually every slice of fuzz that blows across the new/weird floor. Don't demeanour on me.

Prefers to sit down atop refrigerator together with ready for attack.

It could also conduct hold something to practise amongst the Bass magnet.

There was also a new, unexpected grapheme thrown into the mix lastly week. My mom had to move to Nashville for operate together with left my trivial sis Ellie amongst me.

Ellie is the sweetest trivial rat domestic dog you lot volition ever meet, together with I honey her similar she is my human sister. I literally conduct hold conversations amongst her together with gaze into her eyes.
You in all probability conduct hold dogs, so...you understand.

She's actually old, super cuddly (except for the pointy chicken legs), together with she's irrationally terrified of everything.

For example, allow me laid the stage: It's 8pm, I'm inwards elastic-waistbanded-pants, the cats are downstairs, Jesse is out amongst some guy friends, Ellie together with I are cuddling together with watching movies, together with I opened upwards a bottle of Sprite.