Fixing up

Slowly, ever so slowly, I am getting my house updated a bit, repainted, etc.

I still have many things to do...

like cleaning my carpet and getting the trim work and crown molding finished but at the moment, I am DONE.

 

So on my blog I mentioned being exhausted from working on the stair rail...

so here's the reveal..before and after.

 Before (with some sanding done so it doesn't look so pretty)

 Before

 After

After

 

It definitely looks different.

The dark parts now match my re-stained kitchen cabinets and the spindles are the color all the trim will be in my house as well as the crown molding (I guess that fits into the 'trim' category).

I still have so much to do, including finishing up our entry way. There is crown molding to add, the floor molding and the side of the stairs to paint as well. I haven't gotten the guts up to rip out the carpet on the stairs and see what kind of wood we have under there. I'm hoping for nice stuff that I can stain to match the 'wood' flooring we have in the kitchen (or our future 'wood' flooring when we redo that area!).

But as of now, I'm just done. Doing that stair rail broke me. The staining wasn't so bad...hand-rubbed everything...so nice.

The spindle painting....3+ hours to prime and then another 3+ hours to paint!! We're not including the sanding time I spent either!

 

So eventually this entry will be done, with pictures hung and all trim work up and painted but until then, this is what I've done and hopefully I get the energy to finish up the rest before a few years pass.