Light oak wood stair (& bannisters) transitioning to dark wood floor?
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Comments (11)I have done this. We have oak railings in this house that were very ho-hum, so I decided to stain them darker with polyshades. I mixed Walnut & Bombay Mahogany & while I would have liked them to be a bit darker brown & less reddish, I'm very happy with the way they turned out. My railings did not have a really shiny finish, so I didn't sand or anything, just painted right over them with the Polyshades. I used a small cheap chipbrush, so I could just throw them away, since Polyshades is oil-based & I hate working with oil. It covered really well in one coat & I just went back & did a quick 2nd coat on areas that were a bit too light. I didn't even tape off the spindles or anything & it was quite easy to control the coverage. Here's a before & after..the best pics I have available right now. Now the railings are much darker than the floor & I think it looks much better & richer. And it really wasn't hard to do at all. Well worth the effort. Before: After:...See MoreLight wood trim, dark wood trim or paint
Comments (7)It looks like you have beautiful wood doors, door trim and beams. Don't know what you have around the windows (not pictured). Looks like the stairs could use a bit of TLC. If I were you I would not be in a hurry to paint or refinish the wood. First year in the home should be figuring out what works, doesn't work, how the home functions and where to sink your money. Prime your walls - live with them for a bit and decide if you really want white walls. I know all the pictures on the internet today are white rooms, but they also have studio lighting. Not all homes look good with all white walls. White needs lots of light to really shine. Often a light neutral color looks better than white if you don't have giant windows, skylights or other great lighting. My last home had between 6 and 16 linear feet of windows in each room - natural daylight galore and I had white walls. My current home has more normal sized windows in most rooms and I am painting the walls that were white to something more appropriate for the amount of light. The white just isn't pretty with out sufficient light. With the walls all primed you can look at flooring and paint and make a better decision on what works best in your new home....See Morehow do I transition wood stairs into different color wood flooring?
Comments (1)If you insist on the lighter flooring, then I would go with the slightly darker version (the one on the left in the last photo). Are you keeping the brick? If you are, the slightly darker wood floors are a better compliment than the super light wood. If you are removing the brick and rebuilding the stairs, then you will want to find out if either of the vinyl floors have stair treads and nosing available. People who have used vinyl that does NOT have treads/nosing found their BIGGEST headache comes from trying to find a solution to this problem. As for your darker wood floors, they look (just one photo with one chip out of the wood) like they could be ready for a sand/refinish. If they are, I HIGHLY recommend doing the hardwood FIRST...and then choosing the fake-wood look product for the den. You might find a good colour match can be had if your red oak hardwoods can be sanded and refinished as 'raw' = the colour of the planks you want to use. How old are your hardwood floors? If the finish is very close to 20 years old, they are ready for a full sand/refinish. It is always advisable to figure out the BIG ticket item before you try to figure out a small ticket item. And if you are refinishing the hardwood, why not add more of the same??...See MoreWood trim, wood stairs, and open floor paint
Comments (19)I actually don't mind the black, but it has to relate to other black in the room. for instance, the stairs. If you did the risers and spindle w/the black, or changed them out for the black cables. the stair steps, paint the risers white. paint the baseboards white. change out those colonial style spindles (it's not difficult to do yourself) get the plain square spindles. or, if you like more of the industrial, do the cables or horizontal metal remove them? paint the risers white or, remove the railing altogether and do something like these bookcases just on the ends. this is a traditional look, so you'd have to do more of modern type, but hopefully you get the gist bring in some black furniture like these wood hairs. white walls. see how the brick is your accent?...See MoreRelated Professionals
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