Transformation of the Back Hallways Begins

We have launched a new project this week! We are sanding and painting the white portions of the back stairs and installing designer-colored (kind of teal green) "rubber" stair treads. This staircase is suspected of being much older than the house. Maj. Wagner (our first owner) may have had it in his house downtown (now the site of the First Baptist Church). It is clearly all handmade. It received all the wear throughout the last 120 years since it runs approximately from the kitchen-bath area (pre-B&B floor plan) to the bedrooms upstairs.

This staircase is much steeper and the treads much narrower than today's standard. Therefore, we can't give it a cute (possibly slick) paint job and call it a day. We will cut as much as 4 inches of depth off the tread covers to make them fit.

With 1/3 of the pickets already painted, it is already looking very sharp. I'll post the before photo at this time. =>>

Check back as we decide on more and more ways to make the back halls very interesting and fresh. I'm sure you've heard this called the domino effect...