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Re: Stairs
« Reply #50 on: September 08, 2012, 01:01:34 PM »




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Re: Stairs
« Reply #51 on: September 08, 2012, 01:15:20 PM »
Can't wait to see the finished stairs.


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Re: Stairs
« Reply #52 on: September 09, 2012, 08:02:07 AM »
K has done a fabulous job!!


I just have one question....how much are you flipping out over the mess he's makin'?   :panic:
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #53 on: September 09, 2012, 10:20:34 AM »
I LOVE this way better than the builder's!!!

Love how the curve look and how it really opens up the space.

I also want to jump from the balcony onto that chair but I know I would kill myself. LOL! I guess the kid in me thinks it would be fun....
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #54 on: September 09, 2012, 10:43:54 AM »
Hell, I thought I was doin' good just by ripping out an old, incorrectly installed bathroom fan.  :p

I have to re-route the venting through an exterior wall -- that I can't see except from the outside.  :p
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #55 on: September 09, 2012, 11:51:45 AM »
I LOVE this way better than the builder's!!!

Love how the curve look and how it really opens up the space.

I also want to jump from the balcony onto that chair but I know I would kill myself. LOL! I guess the kid in me thinks it would be fun....

I would have opened up the area under the stairs too. I think they use that as a pantry though.
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #56 on: September 09, 2012, 01:59:54 PM »
I would have opened up the area under the stairs too. I think they use that as a pantry though.

No it's a craft closet, it has orginizer cubes full of craft stuff and a rolling craftsman tool cart so I can gather the things I want, put it on the cart and roll it into our study to work on stuff.  I have a pantry in my kitchen.

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #57 on: September 09, 2012, 02:01:53 PM »
I LOVE this way better than the builder's!!!

Love how the curve look and how it really opens up the space.

I also want to jump from the balcony onto that chair but I know I would kill myself. LOL! I guess the kid in me thinks it would be fun....

I'll put a trampoline for you to land on.  :-)

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #58 on: September 09, 2012, 02:21:44 PM »
Risers, they will be painted white.


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Re: Stairs
« Reply #59 on: September 09, 2012, 08:41:17 PM »
The treads will hang over the steps 1" on the front and side of he steps. I have the job of painting all the wood that you see (after he finishes the last few steps) the trim color.



I'm going to paint the hall to our bedroom and selected walls (and perhaps the upstairs hallway) the color you see in the bottom picture.  It's two colors down from the current wall color on the color sample swatch.  The paint is Sherman Williams (holy crap their paint is expensive). The current wall color is called Kilim Beige (SW 6106) and the color I'm going to paint selected walls is called Latte (SW 6108).


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Re: Stairs
« Reply #60 on: September 17, 2012, 09:35:11 AM »

Because the door trim isnt thick enough for the wainscoting my husband is going o have to beef it up like this..



We are going to do something I like this the to the top on the tops the doors frame.





I forgot to grab a picture of it all painted but I have another example done by someone else.



Here is what adding a little molding can do for a room.



Ah, I did have one. This is finished trim from the first example.




Our half bath is getting wainscoting, built in magazine rack and a medicine cabinet/mirror that looks similar to the one in the bethroom remodel my husband did in our house in Fullerton.



Here is the mirror he built for the bathroom in Fullerton.




I started priming all the wood.



We were going to use 1/4 MDF for the smooth part of the wall for the wainscoting but by adding that it would have added 1/4" overall and would have caused us problems so my husband is going to smooth the walls himself (using joint compound) below the wainscoting. I wish I had smooth walls... :rant:

Wainscoting down this hallway, crown molding at the ceiling. A little cubby/hall tree thing. Similar to this but configured differently.











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Re: Stairs
« Reply #61 on: September 17, 2012, 12:08:54 PM »
BEG, does your husband have any, uh, free time to himself? Go out and get a beer? Slay a poor, defenseless Bambi or Thumper? Work on his car? Exercise?

Methinks you're slavedriving him pretty good.  :lmao:
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #62 on: September 17, 2012, 05:01:41 PM »
I cant wait to see it all finished! Your hubby is so talented.....mine knows how to call a handyman. :rofl:
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #63 on: September 17, 2012, 11:36:18 PM »
He put a coat of joint compound on the wainscoting walls tonight.  He will add a 2nd coat tomorrow. We had to go to a local fine woods shop for two specialty steps and for the arch around the balcony. My husband drew up the size and shape of what he wants and they will fabricate it to a certain point.  He ordered the other treads from someone else (knotty Alder -superior) and the Newell and baulusters are from another compamy.



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Re: Stairs
« Reply #64 on: September 18, 2012, 12:36:23 AM »



The poor guy passed out from working so hard. Don't you feel bad?

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #65 on: September 18, 2012, 02:33:14 AM »
So many of my replies are vesta like, stream of consciousness. The first thought that occurred to me is the 10 to 1 ratio. This thread is holding steady at slightly better than average reply to viewings ratio. I attribute that to the good remodel tastes of the OP, and the OP's tenacity in keeping the thread, and all loyal readers up to date.
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Re: Stairs
« Reply #66 on: September 18, 2012, 04:59:06 AM »



The poor guy passed out from working so hard. Don't you feel bad?

LOL, no he is playing with the dog (he is in his underwear though).  :p

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #67 on: September 18, 2012, 05:05:10 AM »
So many of my replies are vesta like, stream of consciousness. The first thought that occurred to me is the 10 to 1 ratio. This thread is holding steady at slightly better than average reply to viewings ratio. I attribute that to the good remodel tastes of the OP, and the OP's tenacity in keeping the thread, and all loyal readers up to date.

It's the "look at me" tactic.  :-)

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #68 on: September 18, 2012, 05:13:31 PM »
Thank God hubby is a 1%er.
















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Re: Stairs
« Reply #69 on: September 19, 2012, 04:15:35 PM »
Thank God hubby is a 1%er.




Not sure the forum is ready to hear about your husband. :tongue:











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Re: Stairs
« Reply #70 on: September 19, 2012, 06:22:20 PM »
Thank God hubby is a 1%er.




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If he were a real 1%er he would be paying someone else to do it.  :p

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #71 on: September 21, 2012, 09:38:07 AM »
If he were a real 1%er he would be paying someone else to do it.  :p

No, he's a smart 1%er




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Re: Stairs
« Reply #72 on: September 21, 2012, 10:14:33 AM »





That toliet has seen you with your pants down.  :naughty:

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #73 on: September 21, 2012, 01:15:05 PM »





That toliet has seen you with your pants down.  :naughty:

Not before this picture obviously.  :p

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Re: Stairs
« Reply #74 on: September 21, 2012, 04:13:17 PM »





That toliet has seen you with your pants down.  :naughty:



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I think we need pics of BEG on the staircase.................just for scale................ :whistling:
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"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

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