Hello friends. I need your help ! I was honored to be one of the weekly winners in One Project Closer’s Before & After 2009 contest supporting Habitat for Humanity.
Our July staircase transformation was one of the weekly winners. Remember all of the sweat that went into revamping our foyer? Remember how I took our blonde oak ordinary staircase and gave it a fresh modern design?
Before:
After:
Remember how I stripped, sanded, stained, painted and polyurethaned the banister to give it this espresso finish?
Before and After:
Up close:
Read the entire article about our staircase transformation here.
But oh, I didn’t stop there!
I also added a chair rail, panel trim, and a wallpaper treatment up the stairwell.
See?
Here I am, attaching those panels by hand. Whew!
Read the wallpaper treatment article right here.
Now the voting has begun !
If you’re impressed with this transformation, well I could sure use your vote !
Click on over to One Project Closer to check out all of the entries. And place your vote right here. The best part about this contest? One Project Closer donated $490 to Habitat for Humanity in honor of all the winners.
Now get on over to One Project Closer and rock the vote ! Thanks friends.
How cool! I voted for you!
I LOVE it!! I wish I were this talented…maybe one day!
I do love that transformation! So tempted to do something similar with our staircase- it too is blonde oak.
I’ll go vote for ya!
Um hello? They called your staircase “dated and dreadful” ? Tsk tsk.
I will head on over and vote!
Voted for ya!
I voted for you too!
I’m so in love with your site. I’ve been visiting it everyday for about a month now but I hadn’t subsribed yet…. untill today. I’m so inspired by your DIY projects and I’m ready to tackle my own. I just got a place of my own and it needs a lot of DIY love. Keep those project ideas coming cuz I’m gonna need ’em.
This project totally deserves it! I’ll head over now.
Love the transformation. I voted for ya.
You have my vote! I am on my way over.
Voted for you! Hope you win…
pk @ room remix
you got my vote – it’s gorgeous!
I also support Habitat for Humanity by frequenting their Restore in my area. It’s like a wonderland to me!
I’ll get right on that!
I voted for you. I loved this project. I showed it to my husband. You know that he enjoys seeing all the things that I find on the blogs I read:)
I voted for you! I remember seeing this when you did it and drooling over the results. Good luck!!
I voted! That staircase rocks like no other.
Allthough I hated you when I saw yesterday your master bathroom :):) , I am going now to vote for you!
I voted for you. Good luck!
I voted, Kate!!!! Good luck! You deserve to win!!
Done!! I love this redo and think that you are an incredibly gifted lady.
God bless…
I went over and voted! Whew! You are up against some heavyweights. How great to have your DIY acknowledged. Good luck to you! I just love the staircase.
I voted for ya. I love that staircase. {swoon}
My staircase (which looks very similiar to your old one) is on my to do list. Has been for a few months. You have inspired me. I am running over to vote for you. Great job
I’m going to vote for you now!
(Can I ask a favor in return? Did you mean to change your feed settings so that the whole post doesn’t show up in Google Reader? I’d love love love it if you’d change it back!)
voted for you!
you have my vote! and this project has inspired me to do the panels for my dining room. but i have so many other projects before i can get to this one in particular. and you debuted this like a couple of months ago!
I just voted! Good luck!
Congrats, I hope you win! The work you did really transformed the space…love the dark espresso woodwork, beautiful!
GO! You’ve got my vote.
Pls check out my new blog. I think you’ll see we have a lot in common :) Good Luck!
Done! Crossing my fingers for you!
I still think that is one of the best before and after posts I’ve ever seen!! :)
Hope you’ll stop by my 3rd Decorating Dilemmas Party. I’m posting it tonight after 10 pm (EST), and it will up all day tomorrow. I have a prize. ;)
You have my vote!
I LOVE this project. GOOD LUCK!
I am certainly going to vote for you!
This is a beautiful staircase. I wish I didn’t rent :-(
Voted for you! Love to help out another Bay Area Gal. It really looks amazing. Love to watch creative people like you in action Amazing. Holly at lifelaughlatte.blogspot.com
You should be on HGTV and compete for design star.
You got my vote. It is amazing what you did with this project. I hadn’t seen it before. When I voted you were tied for 2nd place…good luck!
Sue
There were lots of great projects, but yours was my favorite, so you got my vote. Good luck!
Hi Kate,
Amazing transformation with your stairway.
Just off to vote for you, good luck.
Hugs
Carolyn
Hi Kate,
I tried to leave a message and nothing happened, so I will send this again.
Lovely transformation of your staircase ~ will just go and cast my vote.
Good luck.
Hugs
Carolyn
I voted for youuu…. good luck.Hope you will win:)
Wow! Just stunning. I voted…good luck
i love this project, you turned an blah staircase into a beautiful space
Sarah
I just voted for you, of course!! You’re right up there with the top vote-getters. Good luck. (I know you’ll let us know when you win!!!!
Pat B.
Done, and happy to help!
Voted! You are in 3rd right now… the top 3 are very close! Good luck!!
I would vote for you even if you hadn’t asked. This transformation is AMAZING:)
Kate, I actually was on someone else’s blog and clicked over to the voting site…when I saw your staircase renovation I voted for you and not the other person. I love your staircase. You got my vote.
ElleX
You got my vote! I was obsessed with this transformation. Good luck!
I LOVED your staircase renovation. I just went over to the site and voted for you. While there were many great projects posted, I really hope you win!
I voted for you, I love the work. My boyfriend and i looked at all of the entries and you were the clear winner
Habitat is such a great cause. I’m heading over to cast my vote now. Good luck!
I LOVE this, you’re so clever!
Voted for you :)
Oh my, how very, very gorgeous!!! You are so talented!! :)
Are there details on your site to show how that look was accomplished? Is that wallpaper inside the panels or did somebody handpaint that design that is by the way beautiful. I could use you here in Md. to hang all my pictures on the wall.
I am new to your blog, so a little late to the party on this one, but I LOVE this transformation.
(Perhaps especially because I have the same blonde wood/white staircase. Ohh…now I amm inspired.)
Hi, I came across your blog while looking for more info on stripping and painting banisters. I love your blog! I had a question, did you tape up all the spindles prior to stripping? Did you use painters tape? I had some issues trying to strip the bannister only last night and looking for tips on how cleanly strip the bannister only. I’m also using Klean Strip. Thanks!