Truly the last update of the day

[desperance]

The strangest thing is happening. In my head. I had - of course! - intended to paint my floorboards black. With perhaps little gold stencil fleur-de-lis or some such on the risers.

Thing is, though, the old carpet was not as wide as the stairs, and the outer uncovered edges had already been painted, glossy off-white. And when I took the carpet up I found that goes quite a long way towards the centre of each stair, it's a broad margin - and, y'know? It does make the stairway brighter.

So, yup. This strange thing is happening. I am thinking, what if I paint the whole thing off-white, all the boards? To be sure they'll get grubby fast, but hey. Easy to clean. And light is nice, in a north-facing house.

So maybe. Only, then what do I do with the walls...?

Comments

[ellarien]

I can see definite advantages in non-Barry-coloured stairs.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, man. Paint them white or cream or something and put gold fleur de lis on them anyway. Black stairs, are you nuts? It'll brighten the whole place up to have white ones! (and, yes, you'll be less likely to step on Barry...)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Paint is good, but once you start, you do tend to get the Forth Bridge effect.
And it has to be said that cats + bare stairs = thundering.