"started from the top now we're here..."

I think my stairs may be punishing me for not posting this sooner..

Last week husbie and I used vacation time to work on projects on the house to get ready for holiday parties and a photoshoot that will take place here in the beginning of January. We had soooo much on our list of projects it was overwhelming where to start. Trim needed to be painted, grout needed to be scrubbed, the downstairs bath needed to be finished etc.

We started with the stairs:

This is the narrow steep death trap that we had to work with.

This is not my final plan for the stairs so I did not spend too much time sanding and prepping the risers. I just wanted them to look like they didn't belong in a haunted house. Just a fresh coat of paint was what it needed this time around. Phase II will be a much more intense project.

And after :

With the time we had, we decided to just paint the risers. Probably sometime over the summer we will sand and stain the treads.

Here is a nice comparison of the two. How's that for a difference! How did we live with these for 8 months?? Yuck!

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So, you're probably wondering why I titled this one "started from the top now we're here"..

Well... Funny story..

I fell down the entire flight of stairs. From. The. Top. I have 3 really nice bruises to show for it - two elbows and a rear end. I spent about 20 minute at the bottoms of the stairs trying to gain my strength back. After hubs and my aunt brought me back to health, we all shared a laugh about how funny it was... I mean at least my face is okay right?

My sister also fell about halfway down a few days earlier too - so we need to come up with a solution to this before we bring in any little Apes..

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Stay posted for another project that we did over our vacation - hopefully posting this evening or tomorrow:)

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Christmas is 4 days away and I'm having 13 people over - great!

What are everyone else's plans for Christmas?!

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