Evolution of the Staircase: the Stair Skirt

Last Wednesday was an exciting day for our house. It finally got the stair skirt it's so desperately needed. In case you need a reminder, this was our dreadful, creepy upstairs.

I always like to note that there was a deadbolt on the outside of the door to the stairs. Meaning, someone downstairs could lock the door and nobody could open it from in the stairwell. Pretty sure there's no way that could possibly be compliant with fire code.

Because there was green muppet carpet, I guess the gaps just sort of disappeared. Once we ripped out the carpet and steamed the glued-on carpet pad off the floor and had the floors refinished, it became apparent that something was missing. Despite all the work, it still kind of looked like a mess.

Before

Enter stair skirt to save the day and finally make it look polished.

After

No doubt one of Trevor and team's funnest projects so far, it involved a lot of cardboard templates and measuring each step to make sure it was going to fit as snugly as possible.

Before

 

After

Before

 

After (though I still have to put the new riser faces on that I made. Another story for another post.)

After :)

Yes, I wear birks with socks in the winter, and yes, apparently my socks are different colors. Who cares? We now have a mostly finished staircase!

See more posts about the stairs here.