Cheap Ways To Finish Stairs

Check out my step by step tutorial so that you can redo your own stairs with minimal work and maximum effect.

Cheap ways to finish stairs.

Place a fan at the bottom of stairs to aid in quick drying. It was time consuming but super cheap. It wasn t visible. Smooth the rug against the stair.

Be sure there is a nail in each of the outer edges. If you need to replace your stairs or the treads of your stairs you re looking at a much higher bill. You can purchase wood finishing varnish from hardware and home improvement stores. Lots of scraping and lots of painting.

Basically to get a big bunch of praise when your home my love language apparently staining stair treads a walnut finish. It is about 11 for a can. They are called retro treads and mine were unstained red oak from lowes. Paste wallpaper to the riser of each stair switching up patterns makes it extra eye catching as in this pic.

They will make your wooden stairs bright and shiny and add a layer of protection to wooden basement stairs which will help prevent rust and rot. I know they look dark here but i wanted to show how pretty they look at night with these electric candles on. The powder coating and faux finishing is 2nd to none. We sanded by hand because we don t own a sander.

Nail the rug to the bottom of the stair in the center of the rug and then at every three inches on either side. The most important part of how to refinish stairs that were carpeted is as always cleaning the stairs thoroughly before applying any product. To me the most important little tool is the tack cloth because even after vacuuming and cleaning the stairs i still got a huge amount of lint on the cloth. Well this is a cheater version little scraping little painting that uses wood caps on top off your existing stairs.

At the same time we finished the two landings. Use the carpet tacks to the rug in place starting in the center and then at every three inches on either side. Most importantly sanding removes the top layers of poly paint shellac so that your finish or paint will adhere. If wooden stairs have been installed then painting and varnishing them is something you can easily finish.

I left the 5 upper stairs carpet and while it may seem strange it was the easiest place to stop the wood since our family room upstairs had carpeting.