Staircase help!
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Crystal Paul
In need of help! What do I do with this bizarre staircase enclosure? When we moved in three years go, this was what was used as an alternative to spindles and a bannister evidently. It is not weight-bearing, but we need to do something as we had twin boys this past April, and they are already on the move! As I'm sure you can guess, our budget is tiny, really non-existent actually, so anyway we can do this inexpensively would be great. I would rather not board it up as there is a great deal of light that comes from the window at the top of the stairs. Right now there is a treadmill on this wall, and no other place for it in the house either, so it can't move. Any idea is welcomed.
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If you like the oriental look of the railing, you could put some kind of plexiglass up on the inside of the staircase. Looks like the rest of the room is decorated with the same color of wood. If money is an issue, you wouldn't have to replace or paint all the trim.
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I agree with the plexiglass idea. You only need it high enough to protect the little ones as they learn to navigate the stairs. I would be tempted to put it on the outside of the staircase so that their little hands have something to hold on to as they learn to climb-which believe me, they will whether you want them to or not, so you might as well teach them to do it safely early in their life. that is much easier in the long run and you can't keep them off the stairs when they become determined to climb them. You could even put "Their knick knacks" on the shelves thus created and it will add to their interest as they go. When my daughter was a year and a half old, I gave her her own "knick Knack", explaining to her that if she broke it, it wouldn't be pretty anymore. I did not put away my pretty things to "child proof my home" but she was allowed to Decorate with her knick knack, which she did daily many times. She thus was not that interested in mine that she was not to play with and I still have her knick knack and it doesn't have a chip on it! I did the same with my son. It worked with him as well. So each of my Grandkids have had their own Knick Knack when they were at my house. Only one of them has been broken and it was me that dropped it and broke it so I had to replace it!
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