Stairs

We have gradually been renovating the stairs since we first moved in. Ripping away the layers and decades from them. Upon closing on the house, we immediately ripped out the mauve carpeting which left laminate covered stairs and roughed up toe strips. These we attempted to stain but they didn't turn out quite right. We lived with the toe strips and laminate stain for about a year. Yuck. For the past few weeks, I decided to rip off the laminate, throw away the toe strips, sand the stairs down, and paint them. I think it's an improvement from their previous forms. Take a look:

Mauve carpet.

Carpeting be gone.

Nasty laminate that we attempted to stain. To very unsatisfactory results.

Laminate and toe plates left the building!


Time to sand them down.


Time for some stripes.

And, the finished product.

Yay! Finally.