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Stairs - repair, renovate or new?
Comments (2)You touch it for anything other than cosmetics, then you bring it all to modern code. That is major home surgery that impacts two whole floors of your house structurally, and space wise. You would need more room for the stairs, on both floors, as modern rises and runs are bigger....See MoreStain that closely matches old millwork
Comments (3)Two things. It may be preferrable to keep the stair treads the natural color, and then use a darker stain on any actual trim. Think that all of your horizontal/foot-trafficked surfaces are the same. It seems a little weird, but that is how things were done. As far as getting the matching stain, what you need to do is take a piece of the sanded wood to be stained and a piece of stained finished trim, and head to Sherwin-Williams. You may have to press them a bit, but they have the ability to adjust their BAC wiping stain to match, but it depends on them having the actual START and END pieces to work with. I have similar colored 'bungalow' woodwork, and I think my base stain was Chestnut with a bunch of extra pigments added....See MoreStair Makeover Help
Comments (13)@Katie F, Take the carpet out and check what's underneath. If this is a job you don't want to tackle right now, you can look at ripping out the carpet, sanding the balusters to expose the original grain, and stain it a light colour. You can take wood from Lowes or Target or Home Depot, and have it cut to the tread size, create an L-shaped (inverted floating shelf) to cover the tread and nosing of the staircase, the riser can be a wallpaper or plain paint (perhaps a sage green)? This is an ad hoc, makeshift makeover, and you're going to need a real remodel job soon to make it look like a home and not a DIY paradise! Edit: Use thin wood, perhaps a quarter of an inch, if you raise the tread by too much, there's a major tripping risk....See MoreRenovating finished basement stairs
Comments (10)It looks like you have a stringer and baseboard but no skirt board. Underneath the carpet is almost certainly raw wood. What kind of wood? Particle board, plywood, solid wood--pine, oak...? It's the sideboards that seem problematic. They look sort of easy to do, if you happen to have a table saw. You don't need & would not use a table saw to cut a skirt board. (If that is what you mean by 'sideboards'.) If you plan to use vinyl on the stair treads, then you will need skirt boards to cover the gaps (which I assume are necessary with vinyl treads.) . When the carpet comes off, come back & post another picture....See Moremononhemeter
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