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Laminant Stairs Upgrade
Quarantine 2020 has turned into Home Renovation Quarantine for the Kleiber’s. We replaced our entire second floor carpeting with laminant flooring. Then we were faced with the dillema of what to do with the remainig front and back stairs. The front curved staircase , pictured below was tiled (see link for project details). I really like how the front tile staircase turned out but it was labor intensive and a bit expensive for our backstairs. So we agreed that laminant stairs was a good option, using the same material we had used on the upstairs flooring. Here’s how the second floor laminant looks: Backstairs: Step 1 – Start…
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Staircase MakeOver
My front curved staircase is the first thing you see when entering my home. The staircase was the reason I fell in love with my house initially but keeping carpeted stairs cleaned and vacuumed was a giant frustration. After looking into replacing with wood, I decided on tile. A hardwood replacement would have been far more expensive and required additional tools. I wanted to create a statement look and love Spanish tile detail. There are a lot of options for tile, but in the end I didn’t want to spend thousands of dollars on high end tile for the stairs. I ended up buying my black and white tiles from…
