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rachele34

Help with staircase upgrades

7 years ago

We need help deciding how to upgrade our stairs. We are planning to add an apron in and skirt. We are planning to keep the oak, as the rest of the house is still oak. We will probably change out the baluster for wrought iron. What we need help deciding is if we should make the stairs solid oak with no carpet to match the main floor, or if we should just do oak end-caps, and put carpet running down the center? I'm concerned that the solid wood stairs will be too slippery. I suppose we could always add a runner later, although I like the look of the inlaid carpet runner better, if I'm going to have carpet. I'd like to hear from people who have all-wood stairs, vs. wood end-caps with carpet down the middle.


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