$50 DIY STAIRS RENOVATION, budget DIY make-over, One woman, staircase with spindles, Remove CARPET

Hi everyone, this is Emi, and my husband and I have been discussing what we were going to do with the stairs and We have a big problem because there are spindles and they're included or on the inside of the stair treads so it would be a really expensive proposition to have removed the carpeting and have new stair treads put on so I decided to tear down the carpeting and just to refinish the stair treads and I'm doing this while my husband is away So I decided to chronicle it in a video so that I can show him when he gets home. How much work it was I thought I had nothing to lose because we needed to replace the carpeting So if it didn't turn out I could just replace the carpeting anyway So I'm going to get started and I'm going to show you what I did to get to this finished result from carpeted stairs to a wood look I've already started to tear the carpeting down I have to cover up these ragged edges somehow and I haven't decided what I'm going to do about that yet So I'll show you when I'm done here on the side. I have to pry that up I have all this paint that I have to remove I don't want to remove the spindles And so for that reason this is a really tedious job because it means I have to get all of this off And I need to remove these rough sections here on the spindles. Now wet it down with my vinegar and water solution. Okay, I've got all the stairs cracked field and wood filled and I've got them all sanded down I've tried several different solid color stains, and they weren't really the right color So what I wound up doing was buying this porch and patio floor paint And then I mixed three different colors to get the color that I wanted, I have a dark brown And then I have a tan color and then I have a light Wet my step I don't want very much on my brush. I'm just trying to get a little skim coat right now, so I just got my brush so that there's just a little and I spread it very thin You can still see these areas where there was wood filler. So then while it's all still wet, I then went over it and put Extra paint in those sections and the strokes will all blend together so you're not going to see that Like that So, that's how I'm going to go and do all the steps After I had the treads the way I like them then I just took a dry brush and I made these streaks with the lightest color that I had When I was happy with the way the treads looked I went ahead and I coated them with the diamond finish water-based interior Verathane, a shiny durable finish l have most of them in place here and I still have one left to put right there in that spot. So That's it that's how I went from carpeting on my stairs to this new fresh look and I'm pretty happy with that for now

Channel: Hectanooga1

Views: 1,031,282

Keywords: hectanooga1, STAIRS RENOVATION, DIY RENO, REMOVE CARPET, REFINISH WOOD, Renovate carpeted stairs, refinish wooden stairs that were carpeted, stair makeover, staircase reno, remove carpet, paint stairs, faux finish, renovations, stair riser, construction, repairs, home decor, home repairs, interior design, installation, one woman-one staircase, stairs makeover, home improvement, favecrafts, $50 budget stairs make-over, steps renovation, redo upstairs steps, renovate upstairs

Id: jdFFNKmmXmM

Length: 4min 55sec (295 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 11 2015