This is it.  It's time.  It is time for the stair project.  THE Stair Project.  The main stair, the only stair taking us from the first floor to the second.  The Right By The Front Door When You Enter stair.  The Big Stair DIY.
Only after eight years and change of living here, cough, after all.
Before...wait....Go big or go home, eh"  Well wait, I already am home.
Since I've been teasing this over on the Instagrams, I felt I should get rolling on sharing it here too.
So what has been my hold up all these years"  Oh.  Well.  Lots of things.
....right, this is the current today before actually.  With the spiffy new paint on the walls, what a dreamy color. Oh and the heh, the paint for the metal stair out front repair too!Cost for one.  Hampered by design ideas, two.  Obviously it was going to be a DIY so that was a major factor in the design decision and the cost.  A design decision based on DIY and cost then also materials too. Something that won't be slippery.  Something that will look sharp and not like a sloppy hack.  By someone who isn't a fancy pants carpenter.  With limited tools (no table saw, remember).  And a shop located in the basement.
I went through a slew of ideas in my head.  A slew.  Aaaah freakin' slew.  Years worth of slew.
From re-carpeting (eh I am not a carpet fan personally -- allergen and dirt trappers), to covering or painting or st...