Painted Stair Risers With Runner
Painting stairs with a faux stair runner will completely transform your staircase for just pennies.
Painted stair risers with runner. Continue to 17 of 22 below. You can see the entire tutorial on ripping up carpet and adding new stairs. Believe it or not the striped midsection of these stairs is not a runner but paint. That totally updated the stairs and i would be really happy with painted stairs but i definitely wanted to soften them up with runners.
Painted stairs are a budget friendly way to replace the nasty carpet on your staircase. This set of stairs is just off the kitchen and dining room with the side door entrance to the right from this angle. Let dry then tape off three center stripes and paint with another shade of your choice. Stick to the same guidelines you d use when selecting a carpet runner and you can swap out your runner for a lot less money than real carpet.
Here they are in progress and you can see the painted pine stair treads going on as well as new white risers. We removed the old runner and painted the risers awhile back. A carpet runner can be nice but these nautical inspired stairs from theothersideofneutral prove you can create the same effect with paint.