Staircase Remodel | Otsego, MN
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From carpet to wood treads, we are finally here to talk about our staircase remodel!
When you walk into our house, the first thing that you see is our staircase. So when we were thinking about the remodel we knew we wanted it to be very eye catching. As you can see the former staircase had dark maroon carpet with a black wrought iron handrail. We knew the awesome potential this outdated stairwell had when we first toured the home before we had put in an offer.
When you walk into our house, the first thing that you see is our staircase. So when we were thinking about the remodel we knew we wanted it to be very eye catching. As you can see the former staircase had dark maroon carpet with a black wrought iron handrail. We knew the awesome potential this outdated stairwell had when we first toured the home before we had put in an offer.
First thing first was tearing up all of the old carpet.
Once we got the carpet torn up, we removed the handrail. Jamie took an electric saw and cut apart the rail in pieces. We were also able to salvage the handrail and use it at Jamie’s grandma’s for an outdoor handrail.
Once the carpet had been torn up and the handrail was removed we had to come up with a game plan of how we wanted this staircase to look.Jamie knew he was going to build his own handrail, he just wasn’t sure exactly on how he was going to do it. After a couple of different attempts, we ended up deciding to have a few posts placed within the stairwell with spindles all the way up. The tricky part was going to be how to make the middle curved piece of the handrail.
Jamie used oak wood and cut and placed the pieces over top the stairs and nailed them into place.
Jamie placed wood backer blocks into the stairs. He then glued and nailed the backer blocks into the middle of the posts. The bottom post and stairs at the base of the stairwell had to be cut so the rail would line up to the end of the stairs.
We are thrilled with the results of our staircase remodel! It was better than we had imagined!
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Published October 23rd, 2014 11:00 PM
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