Nomading: T-Minus 84 Weeks. Our best renovation yet!

Hi everyone! We are so excited for this week’s blog post! We have spent the last two weeks on what we think is our most successful remodeling project yet. We are so happy with the results that there will be more pictures than words in this week’s post. If you love before and after pictures, this week’s post is for you!

War on the honey oak woodwork

In Week 118 we talked about maximizing the equity in our home in order to squeeze as much money out of our biggest asset as possible. One of the biggest hurdles we have is the honey woodwork that is ALL. THROUGHOUT. THE. HOUSE.

Two weeks ago, we decided to tackle the biggest woodwork remodeling project in our house. The stairwells. Our house three levels: the main living level, a second floor with a bedroom and bathroom (and a bunch of attic space), and a full finished basement.

The stairwells that go to the basement and the second floor are the first things you see when you walk in the front door. The first thing buyers would see when they walked in was this:

We decided to rip the band aid off and paint the stairwells. It took way longer than we expected, but it turned out AMAZING.

Here are a bunch of “before” pictures (they make seeing the “after” pictures so satisfying!)

Us: 1 Woodwork: 0

Steph is the painter in the family and typically she is not a fan of using tape when painting. But for this project, tape was vital to give us clean edges, and to make sure we didn’t paint the wrong parts of the stairwell. The taping took an entire day, but it was worth it.

Well begun is half done is actually true!

The moment you’ve been waiting for! (unless you scrolled down early)

After two long weeks of mess, painting, and a lot of tape, we are finished! And the best part of a finished project is the before and after pictures, so…behold!

Look at those clean lines around the stair treads. Yay tape!

It still goes to the basement, but it’s not gross and scary anymore

Wooden baluster replaced with black metal. Gene nailed this!

The new view from our entryway. Much more appealing to home buyers!

We want to thank you guys for getting this project done. If it wasn’t for this blog and needing to post each week, this project would have lingered on for at least another week. Last night we were like those people on the home improvement shows with the arbitrary deadlines, scrambling around here getting this done just so we could get you guys the “after” pictures. We started this blog to keep ourselves moving forward – mission accomplished!

So, what do you think of our newest remodel? Do you love it as much as we do?

3 responses to “Nomading: T-Minus 84 Weeks. Our best renovation yet!”

Marcelo A Quinones

October 14, 2024 at 9:09 pm

The stairs look great!! We did the same thing to our house in Lone Jack. We painted the banister a darker grey to contrast with the lighter grey walls!!

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