Cheap Ways To Finish Stairs

Vinyl flooring can be obtained for relatively cheap but you should still expect to spend a couple hundred dollars on materials and then another few hundred to have it installed unless you ll do the work yourself.

Cheap ways to finish stairs.

Paste wallpaper to the riser of each stair switching up patterns makes it extra eye catching as in this pic. I left the 5 upper stairs carpet and while it may seem strange it was the easiest place to stop the wood since our family room upstairs had carpeting. Use the carpet tacks to the rug in place starting in the center and then at every three inches on either side. Be sure there is a nail in each of the outer edges.

Basically to get a big bunch of praise when your home my love language apparently staining stair treads a walnut finish. They are called retro treads and mine were unstained red oak from lowes. The most important part of how to refinish stairs that were carpeted is as always cleaning the stairs thoroughly before applying any product. It is about 11 for a can.

Check out my step by step tutorial so that you can redo your own stairs with minimal work and maximum effect. At the same time we finished the two landings. They will make your wooden stairs bright and shiny and add a layer of protection to wooden basement stairs which will help prevent rust and rot. The powder coating and faux finishing is 2nd to none.

Yes this is a pain but it s really important for smoothing out imperfections in the wood. If wooden stairs have been installed then painting and varnishing them is something you can easily finish. It was time consuming but super cheap. Well this is a cheater version little scraping little painting that uses wood caps on top off your existing stairs.

We sanded by hand because we don t own a sander. Place a fan at the bottom of stairs to aid in quick drying. You can purchase wood finishing varnish from hardware and home improvement stores. Lots of scraping and lots of painting.

To me the most important little tool is the tack cloth because even after vacuuming and cleaning the stairs i still got a huge amount of lint on the cloth. It wasn t visible. 25 diy ways to update your stairs. Smooth the rug against the stair.

I know they look dark here but i wanted to show how pretty they look at night with these electric candles on.