One of my favorite projects to date, ripping off old carpet, adding molding and painting my old stairs and adding a runner. I'm working on a 1979 house renovation now with stairs just like these and I've got some fun plans for them too. This time, I'm going to add pine stair treads and will paint them and add a pretty runner. Stay tuned for that one! In the meantime, this might give you some ideas if you have carpet you hate! I detest carpet on stairs.
For all the details, see this post on my blog: http://southernhospitalityblog.com/the-down...
It looks great!
After we removed the dirty and dusty carpet off the stairways steps, there lies plain thick plywood, no thresholds.
Fortunately, I have a friend, a custom furniture designer; we went out buying raw over-sized ...»
4 years later, they still look great and feel great!