Paint the floors. Remove visual pollution and feel the anxiety roll out of your pores..

I have found that if you remove the pollution of visual bombardment, you get a better overall feeling.  

A sense of relief, serenity and just a plain calmness.  

Every floor in this house is wood or concrete.  To finish the floors will cost a fortune, simply because of the size of this house.  This floor below, in the dining room would cost from $500 to $1000 for something traffic proof.  A vinyl wood-look plank flooring is over $600 just for this room.  This is one of 5 rooms this size and bigger, on just this floor.  $5000 is not in the budget just for flooring on one level, soooooo I did some pintresting and found people painting plywood floors all over the place.  

This is the dining room before it was totally painted.  Not a very good picture but you get the idea of the visual pollution with all the spots and lines, and knots in the wood.  

See how much cleaner it looks?  I spent $30 on a gallon of paint.  

The lines you see are paint lines and completely disappear when the paint is dry.  

In the last picture you can see the entrance to the hall way from the dining room.  

This is the hallway floor.  It really shows the distraction of spots, lines, wood grain, and gaps.

Here it is painted.  

I went over the floor with a scraper, and a damp towel to prep.  It is, after all, just plywood and not permanent so I didn't want to spend to much energy and time prepping the floors. 

The clean white stairs with the dark floor and darker hand rail just pop for me.  It makes it cleaner looking while it is on the market.  

Check out my Stairs of the Shortline blog here Stairs of the Shortline on how I painted the stairs, and why.  

Stairs of the Shortline.

These stairs look like a tornado hit them, and a gaggle of Canadian Geese landed for a 15 year vacation. 

Best thing going for 'em is how solid they are.  Hit this house with a 3 ton dump truck and I bet the stairs are still standing.  

They have been painted at least 7 times.  Had 3 different types of carpet glued, and stapled down the center, and the fancy banister spoke things are missing.   

Remember this floor for a later post.  ;)

After scraping, staple pulling, tape removing, and a weee bit of sanding, I began painting.  Could. Not. Wait. Longer.

I began with the side facing into the hallway.  

It was a mother.  A mother like me.  A bitch.

Then the risers for each stair, and the treads of every other stair.

Yes.  Skip a stair.  

Gotta be able to get to bed that night, right? 

The side that was a mother, like me.  

Missing banister spoke thingies.  I wanted to cover them some how.  Fancy trim, a painted metal lid, fancy wood medallion.  

Something cheap and easy, as I'd need 32 of 'em. 

Alas, that did not happen.  Painted holes is what it is.   

Ta-Da!!

Right to the finished picture!

You get the idea of painting the other stairs the next day when you can walk on the painted ones, right?  Yes?  I thought you would.. ;)

Faux Trim

No money.

No trim.

Noooooo problem!

White paint.

Fake it, baby......