stairway to... upstairs

So.. it's been awhile y'all..

We have been busy planning and preparing for Thanksgiving at our house again:) Gosh, it was so fun! We were lucky enough to have both of our families come together this year - M's quiet, reserved, normal family and my crazy, loud, yet still awesome family! It was a great mix - although M's family said they wouldn't be able to make it to Thanksgiving dinner next year...

I would post photos of our lovely table but it looks oddly like last year's table..

Moving on.

We also put up the tree the day after Thanksgiving like we do every year and that too looks slightly like last year's tree...

There's always next year to change things up - this year my mind just don't want to be creative I guess.

so..

We have a couple of projects going on at the moment.

We recently painted the living.. again.

Painted the trim in the living room.

Painted the stairway to the second level.

and our biggest project..

We painted the stairs on the main staircase! Oh man they look phenomenal...

Since having the wood floors refinished, the stairs seemed out of place. The stain on the treads didn't compliment the dark in the floors anymore. The risers were coated with layers and layers of cheap paint - they just needed a complete overhaul.

If you remember awhile back I painted the dirty risers - this was phase 1.

Phase 2 kicked in with this project.

First it was going to just be painting the treads, then I remembered a post that I saw on Pinterest and decided to go big or go home with these guys!

Here is my inspiration from Pinterest.

How beautiful are these??

I love the subtle detail that the paintable wallpaper adds. We would have loved to stain the stairs but it just wasn't going to work out that way.

Here is what the stairs looked like from the very beginning if you don't remember.

Dirty and gross to slightly less bad..

Here is what they look like now!!

We are so obsessed with them - they look amazing and we are so love with the results:)

Since they are still deadly steep and narrow, phase 3 would be completely tear out stairs.. That will be probably 10 years from now..

What do you guys think?:)

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My lovely aunt came over to assist in taking our Christmas photos for us and Tiffany was such a good girl! We got some really cute shots of her in front of the tree:)

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