One of the first structural changes I wanted to make was eliminating the left wall of the staircase above the handrail. I thought it would make both the stairwell and the hall next to it feel closed in. Even though that required some changes and a delay, it was worth it.
The cable railing will look like this and we’ll have rope lighting in the handrail, which will be stained grey to match our floors.
We’ll have storage underneath the stairs in 3 sections. First, a place to hang extra coats. Then, open space for bins of seasonal items. Finally, a little kitty hangout nook. All have push open door panels.
The right wall of the stairwell will be covered with this tile. It’s going to be stunning!
It took a few weeks to figure out the lighting fixtures for the whole house and how they all fit with one another, but that is finally done… except for the 3 stairway lights that I ordered on Etsy from a woodmaker in Florence. (It sounds way fancier than it is.) They were not expensive at all. However, they arrived in this huge wooden box that took a good 15 minutes to open with all the screws he sealed it with!
The inner piece is the same grey as the wall tile.
Two of the fixtures didn’t do so well in transit, so I had a date with some wood glue.
First dates often don’t go well, right? Yeah, this one didn’t either.
The maker was kind enough to send me a new outside piece in 2 parts so all I had to do was remove the electric components, glue them together with the correct glue this time, and let it cure for 24 hours.
I have one more to finish piecing together and then our stairwell pendants will be ready to join the rest of the lighting that’s just waiting to be installed once we’re ready.
