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My Painted Stair Makeover

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It was over a year ago that I started talking about how my poor front stairs need repainting and how I  was looking around for ideas. Here’s the post with some of the ideas I was considering for making over my stairs – Painted Stair Ideas.

painted stair ideas

I didn’t do what I thought I was going to do…as usual.  But I did finally do something! It took me a long time to finish these stairs  (are you surprised?).

black painted stairs

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I started them last year and for  the longest time they just had primer on the risers and one coat of paint on the steps. Which of course wore away in  a few months and was embarassing since these are the first things you see when I open the door.

This is a easy way to add some drama to your stairs without going overboard!

house numbers from home dept

I used these house numbers from Home Depot and spray painted them aqua and sealed them. They were the flatest cheapest numbers that HD carries. They come with really long nails which I used on one number and then I realized I could use shorter finshing nails instead and save me some hammer’n. I used porch and floor paint from Lowe’s for the steps and semi-gloss  for the risers. I figured semi-gloss is easy to wipe down.

painted riser on stairs

This is how they originally looked (except much more worn). This is from my old camera so please excuse the quality of the photo. I had painted the steps a cream color and then painted a runner in a terra cotta color down the middle. I  used a wall decal which I separated and added to my risers. I did this when we first moved in and took the nasty carpeting off the steps. They were in bad shape and we didn’t have money or time to totally redo them so I painted them and they lasted over 7 years! And that’s with us constantly using them plus a dog!

black and white steps with turquoise numbers on risers

I thought black and white would be classic and blue numbers would be fun!

katie daisy magic farmhouse print

My color inspiration was one of my Katie Daisy prints I have hanging in the foyer. It’s called Magic Farmhouse.
painted steps with numbers on the risers

I’m so happy to mark that project off my to do list!

Comments

  2. Diana says

    That turned out great! Wouldn’t those numbers on the stairs have come in handy back when homeschooling young ones! We used to do a mother-may-I kind of game on the stairs with skip counting when learning the multiplication tables.

  5. Shelia says

    Hi Manuela! Oh, your stairs looks great! Sometimes it just takes a while to know exactly what to do and you nailed it! Oh, I made a pun! 🙂
    Be a sweetie,
    Shelia 🙂

  8. Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions says

    Very cute project, Manuela! I love stairs painted like this, too. This was something else had I wanted to try talking my husband into at our old house {and was met with a shaking head}. No stairs here now, so I am back to enjoying pictures of them, like yours! : ) Have a great weekend!

  9. Cynthia says

    Adorable project and I really like the numbers painted that color. It gives the stairs some pop!! I forgot to mentioned that I pinned your paper dollie wreath yesterday.

    Cynthia

    • Manuela says

      Hi Cynthia!

      Thank you – I’m just glad it done and I can move on! Thanks so much for pinning my wreath!

  12. Tanya says

    I would love to do this with my stairs someday! Now I just need to rip out a bunch of beige carpet 🙂 You did a gorgeous job Manuela 🙂

    xo, Tanya

  17. denise johnson says

    You really did a good job with your stairs. It looks great. And I really love it. How I wish our stairs look like that too.

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