DIY Our 1970's House Makeover Part 7: The Painted Door & Stair Rail

Hey ya'll! So, hollo back a month agone when I debuted the novel stair rail? Well, I genuinely see I would live able to teach everything painted inward a calendar week or so. And hence it basically took me a calendar month to teach it all finished.
It's ridiculous, I know.

I've come upwards to receive got that this volition never live a weblog that makes things expect quick too easy.
Welcome to the opposite blog. Take off your shoes. Stay awhile. Enjoy the disaster that unfolds inward every post.

So anyways, let's rewind a footling fleck too remind you lot what the novel stair rails looked similar later it was get-go built.

A few of you lot suggested leaving the railing equally the raw woods too but adding a topcoat, but nosotros built the stair rails using woods that wasn't all uniform, knowing that nosotros wanted to pigment it to check the trim. Here's a unopen upwards of the railing to demo you lot what I mean.

So, knowing that it had to live painted, I decided that I wanted to pigment the stair rails using our novel pigment sprayer, thinking that it would build the ikon procedure a full breeze.

Welcome to my worst see ever.
Also known equally that i fourth dimension I turned my solid into the laid of Dexter.

Since I had never used a pigment sprayer before, I had no see how much overspray was involved. When I took the sprayer exterior to exam it for the get-go time, nosotros chop-chop realized that I was going to receive got to comprehend the entire get-go flooring amongst plastic.

So, I used this materials called Tape'n Drape (affiliate link), which is basically a bunch of plastic sheeting attached to tape. It made things hence much easier, but it yet took me virtually three hours to record everything up.
Only because I tend to plough into a wing stuck on a wing strip whenever record is involved.

So, nosotros played amongst the pigment sprayer for awhile outside, making certain nosotros had a full general agreement of how to role the thing.
And hence it was fourth dimension to tackle the stair rail.

I applied the get-go coat of primer to the surface area close the stairs, too frankly, it wasn't equally tardily equally I see it would be. Jesse witnessed me struggling too offered to help.
And that's when I handcuffed him to the pigment sprayer.

Luckily, I came upwards amongst a overnice invention to agree a sail of foam board on the other side of the rails land spraying to halt some of the overspray. This sped things upwards too eventually the entire railing was covered inward a coat of primer too two coats of semi-gloss paint.
For those of you lot who similar specifics: First I used woods filler on all of the blast holes too hence sanded them even out amongst the wood. Then, I caulked all of the gaps inward the woods amongst DAP. Then, nosotros used Kilz primer too Behr Premium Plus pigment inward Ultra Pure White amongst a semi-gloss finish.
And I sanded the entire matter amongst 220 grit earlier priming too hence i time again later the primer had dried.

So, if I'm beingness honest, Jesse basically but painted the whole thing. I generally ran some similar a crazy soul checking for overspray evidence.
And I think the below moving-picture demo best sums upwards my usefulness during this time...
Wearing oversized human being pants too a mask, staring at a flip flop.

Eventually, the stair rails seemed to live adequately covered too the task seemed done. It was nighttime at this point, but equally far equally nosotros could tell, everything looked great.

So, nosotros pulled upwards all of the plastic sheeting too went to sleep.

And here's where the plot thickens.

I woke upwards the side past times side solar daytime too it was incredibly evident that nosotros should have applied i to a greater extent than coat of paint.

I wanted to run away. And never return.

And since there's no agency I was going to recreate the taping too draping incident, or enquire Jesse to bask some other fun-filled solar daytime amongst a pigment sprayer, I spent a few long evenings amongst a paintbrush too tiny foam roller applying i terminal coat.

There were a few moments where I felt a footling Britney-with-umbrella-crazy, but inward the end, fine tuning the terminal coat wasn't the worst matter inward the world.

Eventually the stair rails was totally done, it looked great, my sanity somehow survived, too it was fourth dimension to motion on to the door.

The door was a full disaster later the stain debacle, too definitely needed a novel coat of paint.

I realize how gross that is.

So, I laid upwards my shower drape dropcloth, wiped downwardly the door, sanded it a little, too started testing out some dark pigment colors.

I eventually settled on Sherwin Williams Urbane Bronze, a actually keen subdued dark that goes actually good amongst but virtually anything.

And hence I also replaced the former hinges, door knob, deadbolt, too door sweep amongst upgraded satin nickel ones.

That lonely made a large difference.

And here's the finished product.

In example you're wondering, the walls are Benjamin Moore Simply White too the reduce is Behr Ultra Pure White. And yes, I rattling much desire to supervene upon the 1970's sliding drinking glass door amongst some double doors that don't require floppy vertical blinds. Baby steps. :)

Now all that's left inward the entryway is to install reduce some the floors too stairs, detect a rug, too re-assemble the nook. But for now, I'm but hence happy amongst this footling space.
I've questioned myself a lot during this renovation, hence it's a overnice feeling to but honey something correct from the start.

Plus, all it takes is a tiny footling glance at this earlier moving-picture demo to hollo back but how far this footling surface area has come.
We've painted the walls, painted the door, replaced the floors, replaced the stairs, built a novel stair rail, upgraded the lite fixture too door hardware, replaced the switch plate, too converted the cupboard into a nook.
And soon, at that topographic point volition live build novel trim.
I swear.

And I receive got i to a greater extent than earlier moving-picture demo that's totally embarrassing, but kinda hilarious. And it reminds me that I'm going to neglect a lot earlier I e'er succeed. And that's how it's supposed to be.

This is a moving-picture demo of the entryway nook from virtually four years agone when I get-go decided to convey off the cupboard doors. I hollo back thinking it was brilliant, too I hollo back Jesse mentioning that it would build a overnice puppet theatre.

So, anyways, to those of you lot who write me too tell that you lot don't know where to start....the response is somewhere. Start somewhere, build mistakes, choke on going, too you'll live surprised at how much you lot tin forcefulness out do!

And that's all for today, ya'll!

I'll live dorsum soon to part whichever i of my ongoing projects I complete upwards next! :) 'Til then!

P.S. The other posts inward the House Makeover serial tin forcefulness out live flora here:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10