Ugly staircase and foyer
D Sandridge
7 years ago
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Comments (3)"without having detailed plans of the house" looks like a structural necessity for the two landings....See Moreugly utility stairs to my loft - how to make pretty
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Comments (2)That dark color may be the reason one wall turned cream & the other one turned gray, & it might bleed through if you just paint over it, so apply a good coat of Kilz first. Then you really do have a clean slate, & you can more easily envision a new color. The black banister with the white dowels looks really good, sort of a Colonial effect. You could put up black & white striped wallpaper & accessorize with mahogany or dark walnut furniture, & it would be gorgeous, but if the walls are textured, it's hard to get them smooth. so...what were we talking about? oh yeah, paint lol. Your carpet & tile are warm tones, & warm goes with warm, so greens, golds, peachy/apricot colors, bronzes, & brass are all good. maybe a light apricot, with bronze metallic accents (picture frames, clocks, vases & bowls on your hall table), etc. or maybe a gold/green color with brushed antique gold or antique brass somethings. Black banister may or may not work with the softer colors; it might add an exclamation point, it might look like it doesn't belong there. You can cross that bridge when you get to it. Beneath the stairs, the white wood next to the burgundy paint is too much contrast & calls attention to the area. Who wants to focus on the area under the stair treads? I'd paint that whole area the same as the walls or maybe an unobtrusive warm white. It's a nice foyer-have fun!...See MoreUgly Stairs between family room and living room
Comments (16)Here is a thought: This idea moves the step to the Living Room to the left, which eases traffic flow from the adjacent kitchen doorway. Keep the wide base step, but extend it beyond the edge of this step from the Living Room. Take out the angled corner of the base step - it looks odd - and extend the base step to the outer wall if you can. You can then add a step to the Master Bedroom that is wider than the wall opening, so that this step does not look narrow/small. All of this gets the wider base to look more purposeful, acting as an extra seating bench/display shelf. You should add a partial-height wood wall extension/cabinet unit up to the right of the Living Room step, to break the "tunnel" look of the long narrow Living Room from the Family Room. You could also extend the vertical material of this unit as a tall wall base going around the Family Room, which could help to visually tie in this step condition into the rest of the Family Room, so that the steps looks purposeful rather than an after-thought....See MoreD Sandridge
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