After getting new carpet into the basement, it really made our staircase looked awful. So we started talking about what we wanted to do that would cost effective, but still look good.
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| Our stairs when we bought our house almost 3 years ago |
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| Our stairwell after taking the ugly orange carpet out about a year and a half ago |
Josh started talking about making the staircase ceiling look like a Hawkeye helmet, and to his surprise I said sure why not. So the next day we headed to Maynard's and bought some black and yellow paint to start our project.
We weren't really able to start it until last weekend when Josh and Bo got the first coat of black on the walls.
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| Josh preparing the ugly purple wall for it;s new coat of paint |
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| Showing Bo how to paint |
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| Such a great helper and artist. |
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| Black paint on now it's time to take off the painter tape |
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| Check out our new black walls |
Then it was time to add our decals, so Josh got to drawing.
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| Josh free handing the tiger hawk |
Then we spent some quality time cutting it out after the kids went to bed.
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| our template |
Now time to trace the templates onto the walls.
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| America Needs Farmers |
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| Tiger Hawk #1 |
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| Tiger Hawk #2 (check out the new lights on the side of the stairs, their motion censored, no more dark staircase) |
Then time for some paint.
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| Starting to come together |
This project is a coming along nicely, but we still have a ways to go.
Several more coats of paint
The strip on the ceiling
Adding the number 11 to the back of the "helmet" as well as the USA flag
Painting the stairs black
Put the stair treads on
Add the Iowa winning song to the rise of the stair case.
(Just so you know taking pictures at night of a shinny black stairwell is hard)
Stay tuned as we finish our personalized stairwell.
