This is what I came home to last night

As we've come to know, Dave loves a project. What you don't know is that we have a very long list of projects that need to be done before we host a party in a few weeks. Ripping the banisters off the stairs was not one of them. Dave wanted to sand off the yellowed paint on the face of the stairs and banisters.

I have to admit, it really does look a lot better in it's natural state. We also feel a smidge better about painting every single piece of wood trim on the first floor now that we've restored one aspect of the house to it's original condition. The banisters posed the problem of being too close together to sand down. So Dave ripped them right out. Even Bruno is like "for real"?


With this new project is the new idea of staining a runner a darker finish then the rest of the stairs. Something along the lines of this;


Hopefully, we'll have an "after" picture sooner than later. And to think I was running out of material for the blog.

Photo courtesy of ApartmentTherapy.com