Are you ready for some stripey goodness? My stairway just got a whole lot more fun! I envisioned bold, contrasting stripe, but instead of a pure black, I used the same dark gray-brown that I used on an accent wall in our bedroom (Olympic’s Oswego Tea). (Which also means I didn’t buy any extra paint […]
Mixing latex paint leftovers + “oops” paint
Yesterday, I talked a little bit about liquidating my paint stash. (Lots of paint, need to use it up before it gets gross.) So when it came time to paint the stairwell, I knew I just had to make it work without buying more paint. And I’m proud to report the white paint I used […]
Stairway update: Painting the walls
I am inching my way closer to completion with my stairway project. We have painted walls, people! White walls can be exciting (when they are replacing dinginess). More than anything, the stairwell feels clean. And that’s a sentence I could never write before now. I painted the walls white to bring more light into this […]
Stairway update: Design plan
We’ve been working hard on the stairway walls to bring them back to a paintable state, but it’s a slow process. I’ve been scrubbing off wallpaper paste, patching the plaster and sanding like crazy. My dad has been taping and mudding drywall. But we’re not quite done yet. Instead of showing you more dull photos […]
Hiding things in the walls
I’m kind of enamored with hiding things in our house for future homeowners to find. Maybe it’s because I would love to find things someone else hid long ago. With the upper stairway walls open, I took the opportunity to stash another piece (the first being under our front porch steps). I printed a recent […]