1920 Foursquare: Colorful Entry Stairs
Colorful stairs to bring life and cheer to a vinyl-sided gray and white 1920 foursquare house in historic Woodstock, IL. When the home was purchased, the stairs were in serious disarray. Detail was added to the bases of the handrail posts and each tread was painted a different shade of purple from the same Benjamin Moore paint chip. The purple range used was matched to the flowers of existing hosta plants adjacent to the stairs. The jadeite green handrails were matched to a piece of antique jadeite kitchenware. My wife Cynthia gets the credit for suggesting use of a color scale on the treads.
Photo by Graham Hodgson