Replace stair treads

Last year, my son Keith and his wife Steph bought a small, 1950's ranch style home that had seen better days. The ceiling was cracking, the closets were tiny, no insulation, instead of caulking duct tape was used in the bathroom, it needed a new roof, pipes were clogged....it basically needed a whole lot of love.

Re-Finishing your stairs is definitely a daunting task, no doubt. I’ve been putting it off for a year since I didn’t want to create a bunch of dust in my house for something cosmetic. N…

How to replace your stair treads with new treads, have them look professional but still maintaining a serious budget.

Take time to carefully plan every aspect of this staircase project, which involves the support framing, treads, risers, a stair-rail system

Staircase makeover. Use construction adhesive to secure each tread. Get the best modern staircase ideas including stairs and painted stairs for your home at extremehowto.com

Many years ago, I created a post where I took the carpet off my stairs and updated them with Retro treads or stair caps. This has been my most popular post to date at over 2 million views. I’ve always wanted to do this project again and never had the opportunity until now. We are getting ready to put our house up for sale and the basement stairs were atrocious. If you want to see my first post, you can find it here... https://www.hometalk.com/3549194/from-carpet-to-wood-stairs-redo-c…

Today is an exciting day! I’m going to share all the nitty gritty on getting our staircase completely redone. We hired out for part of it, and part of it we did ourselves. As not to leave you in suspense for too long, I’ll just start out with the before and after. WOWZA! I can’t […]

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WOW, WOW, WOW! This DIY staircase makeover was accomplished in a weekend and looks like a professional job! Need to tackle your own staircase makeover? Come check out full details from Designer Trapped in a Lawyer's Body!

Someday we plan to get carpet again for our upstairs bedrooms, hallway, and stairs. For now, however, we have a cat. If you’ve been following along for a while, you’ve seen at least a few projects of mine that came about out of necessity because we needed to get rid of old flooring. I will ...