Staircase Given Vintage Look

Samantha
by Samantha
4 Materials
$30
2 Days
Easy
Our daughters bedroom was an addition in our double garage. When we bought the house, she chose the attic in the garage because it gave her a little bit of independence not having to be "in" the house. Well she has now left the nest and moved into a bachelor flat of her own. This of course created a craft room for myself, where I would be able to potter about undisturbed, and if having to leave a project in the middle I wouldnt have to worry about tidying up. However once having moved my things in, it started two projects. the first being a staircase revamp. I wasn't very inspired having to climb the brown and grey staircase every time I went upstairs. When our daughter was still at home I offered to repaint them to which she wasnt very keen. Well now was my chanceicon .
As you can see, not very inspiring. I started by cleaning the wooden steps (a cheap pine) and the grey railing. I used sugar soap. This you can purchase ready mixed or in powder form. I bought it at our local Builders warehouse.
Step 2: was to paint it with a primer. I used a alkali resistant primer white and tint. I queried from the Paint warehouse which primer I could use for both the wood and the steel railing. This was their suggestion.
Step 3: I wanted the worn look, as I'm not too keen on a finished paint look. I also wanted it to look like a staircase with a fond history. To achieve this I used a chalk paint, colour lemon rind. I painted the stairs with a layer of this. Once dry I coated that with a white, colour old white, chalk paint.
While waiting for this to dry I started choosing my material that I wanted to line the underneath of the stairs. Being quite a slanted staircase it created the opurtunity line the bottom and when standing at the bottom of the staircase you would beable to see the underside.
These are the materials I chose. All floral, but a variety of colours. Before sticking this I sanded the top of the stairs in the centre of each step to allow the yellow to come through. This created the look of stairs well climbed.
I sealed them with a matt sealer. This allows for them to be easily cleaned. I rounded the egdes to add to the worn look. Looking from the top of the staircase I was rather happy with the effect.
I chose the order I wanted the material in, measured and cut the strips. I glued them using a wood glue, and let them dry. I didn't need to sew the edges as the glue sealed them from raffling. I am so happy with the end effect.
This is what you see at the bottom of the staircase.
This is what you see from the top. I must have achieved the worn look, because when my sister-in-law came to visit and saw the steps, she commented that I need to paint the staircase as it was well worn........Lol.
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