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.

If you need to replace your stairs or the treads of your stairs you re looking at a much higher bill. Place a fan at the bottom of stairs to aid in quick drying. You can purchase wood finishing varnish from hardware and home improvement stores. 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.

I know they look dark here but i wanted to show how pretty they look at night with these electric candles on. If wooden stairs have been installed then painting and varnishing them is something you can easily finish. The most important part of how to refinish stairs that were carpeted is as always cleaning the stairs thoroughly before applying any product. 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 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. Vinyl flooring can be obtained for relatively cheap but you should still expect to spend a couple hundred dollars on materials and then another few hundred to have it installed unless you ll do the work yourself. Use the carpet tacks to the rug in place starting in the center and then at every three inches on either side. Nail the rug to the bottom of the stair in the center of the rug and then at every three inches on either side.

It is about 11 for a can. Well this is a cheater version little scraping little painting that uses wood caps on top off your existing stairs. Be sure there is a nail in each of the outer edges. The powder coating and faux finishing is 2nd to none.

Basically to get a big bunch of praise when your home my love language apparently staining stair treads a walnut finish. Yes this is a pain but it s really important for smoothing out imperfections in the wood. They are called retro treads and mine were unstained red oak from lowes. We sanded by hand because we don t own a sander.

Lots of scraping and lots of painting. Most importantly sanding removes the top layers of poly paint shellac so that your finish or paint will adhere. 25 diy ways to update your stairs. Paste wallpaper to the riser of each stair switching up patterns makes it extra eye catching as in this pic.

It was time consuming but super cheap.