Painting Around Carpeted Stairs
Paint of your choice for stair risers.
Painting around carpeted stairs. The painting shield is useless and i have never seen a professional use one except for when installing paper paint. Stairs are the most common place in the home to have carpet and yet they are also the trickiest. This is because in addition to having to decide on carpet style and color the carpet has to be of appropriate durability and thickness to be installed on the stair. Try pushing the carpet down with one hand and cutting with the other.
Carpet edge masking while painting. Choosing carpet for the stairs can be a bit more difficult than choosing carpet for other areas of the home. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. Painted stairs don t have to be bold.
Blogger diane ripped out old carpet and refreshed her hardwood stairs with a little paint and wood stain for less than 25. This is our stairs before. These two toned white and brown stairs from in my own style are proof that painted stairs work in any home. Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.
Painting around carpeted stairs. A fresh coat of paint can transform your staircase without a lot of money. Alot of times it will spring up and down depending on how delapidated it is. This mama got bored last weekend and decided it was time to tackle a project that has been on my wish list to do list for a long long time.
When painting molding on a stairway it is very important to protect the carpet on the stairs not to stain with paint. It needs to be cleaned off prior to the next placement. 4 inch or 6 inch plastic putty knife. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them.
Use a file to round off the edge of the blade. It is made by benjamin moore and is called insl x pro cabinet coat click here. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
I use one specific paint for that in my entire house for white kitchen cabinets trim molding and in this case the risers and sides. The problem with the shield is that if you get paint on it it will tend to get paint on the carpet when you pull it away. This instructable describes an easy and effective method for protecting the edges of carpet when painting baseboards or stair stringers. You can read more about how i also used it on my kitchen cabinets here.