Dark stairs contrast floors.
Lori Roach
8 years ago
We just had natural tiger wood floors installed (love them). We took carpet off of stairs, which are oak. We are installing oil rubbed bronze balusters. My thought is to stain the treads dark to pull from the dark wood contrast in the tiger wood floors. Plus our furniture is dark wood. We want to leave the hand rails and newels as is. Would this work? Their is also a 90 degree turn at the top of the stairs. At the very top, it's carpet. But there's a bit of wood trim on the top I think we'd have to stain dark also. Opinions please!
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PRONugent Design Build, LLC
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoWe love tigerwood flooring! Here's an example that uses similar materials. We completed this staircase in the Chesapeake Bay Remodel a few months back. In my opinion, your handrails will work very well as-is or you can stain them dark. I'd lean towards keeping them as-is for cost value.
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8 years agoSo we have the treads finished... (Still need to pint the risers)... Now we are debating staining the had rail dark also instead of two tone.
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