Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal.
Carpeted stairs with hardwood landing.
Here s how the old stairs looked.
Here is the finished nosing.
Carpet that is too thick can be a tripping hazard so be sure to choose a low pile carpet if safety is one of.
Measure the length and width of the landing.
Hall stairs landing carpets re style your home s interior with our carpet ranges and collections.
Calculation will flow better to install.
Carpet works wonders on stairs like this.
Buy a piece of stair nosing long enough to cover the edge of the landing.
A word of caution for fellow diyers read up on the code for stairs.
Buy enough tongue and groove hardwood to cover the space.
In addition should a fall ever occur carpet offers a much softer landing spot than wood flooring which could help reduce the likelihood of injury.
A client who recently moved to the area asked me to help her update her home with a stair runner.
Her home is a newly built spanish style home with modern touches throughout.
Beautiful hardwood stairs will be ruined by the addition of carpeting because the tack strips need to be nailed down creating holes in the wood.
Designed to stairs existing pine stair has contracted the hardwood on landing tread you want a level on landing tread at least other person place.
The piece is used to finish mat wells too.
There are many important considerations for installing carpet on stairs so learn what these considerations are and what s best for your stairs.
To hardwood on the stairs safe could stop anyone have carpeted.
If there were existing hardwoods underneath the carpet sand them before re staining.
Choose from exciting designs rich colours and adaptive styles.
Image of carpet on stairs and hardwood on landing possible on the edge of recent projects.
This is one project where not following the code can lead to potential serious slips and falls trust me i am an architect.
Besides most homeowners with nice wooden stairs wouldn t be considering carpeting in the first place would they.