I got a little stir crazy the other week. Between the never ending cold weather outside and the mess inside, I decided that I needed to tackle a project. Something relatively small, but yet big enough to make a difference. After months of coming in to the house and seeing the mess that was the stairs, I decided on that for my project. I don’t know why it took me so long to just do it…well, that’s not true. It took me forever to do it because I was pretty lazy this winter. :) Anyhoots, there were still all kind of staples and glued on pieces of gross carpet padding, and then the sheetrockers didn’t tape it off so there was mud and texture and paint. They were a hot mess. And as I look at these pictures, it is amazing to me how gross they were! And I knew they were gross, but just didn’t care enough to do anything!
I got out the trusty ole putty knife and a pliers for the staples, and that container of teal colored paint that was left after the whole door painting situation and here it how it progressed.
Before on the bottom, and then after scraping and one coat of paint on the top. Hubby was gone a lot that week so I did it over about three nights. And there really was no rhyme or reason to the steps that I did…apparently I felt like some of them I needed to skip until another night. Maybe I just like keeping things interesting…who knows!
At any rate, they stairs going up are finished now, but somehow I apparently didn’t take pictures of the completed project. I haven’t thought about the other half flight going down. Maybe I’ll save those for a rainy day this summer. Although if this weather keeps up, I could be saving them for a snowy day! Yikes!!
Hubby has started the planning phase of the railing that will go around this stairwell – I am SO excited for it!
