{"id":1965,"date":"2024-11-21T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T04:07:37","slug":"almost-done-refinishing-stairwell-to-second-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Almost done refinishing stairwell to second floor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0996.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0996.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1966\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a lot of work, but I&#8217;m almost done.  I stained the railing, main posts and steps with gel stain (java color).  I wound up using it almost like paint, simply because I couldn&#8217;t get a consistent look otherwise.  I then coated with many coats of wipe-on polyurethane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The walls were primed with Kilz Original after a lot of patching (the previous owners were hard on the walls).  I then painted with 2 coats of Sherwin Williams Duration, &#8216;Torchlight&#8217; color.  This is a somewhat bold color, but it&#8217;s what I used on the hallway wall on the second floor and this was just completing that work (I still had an unopened gallon of it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masking and painting the spindles took what feels like forever.  They&#8217;re oak, so they got 2 coats of Zinsser B-I-N primer (to prevent tannins from seeping into the topcoat) and then 2 coats of paint.  There were a lot more of these spindles, since there is railing all along the second floor hallway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0927.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0927.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1967\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The baseboard on the landing is new, and the same as what I used on the second floor.  I squished it tight to the carpet, and wedged cut pieces of aluminum flashing underneath to protect the carpet while painting it.  Worked great.  The carpet will get replaced, but I haven&#8217;t made up my mind on the carpet choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a lot of work, but I&#8217;m almost done. I stained the railing, main posts and steps with gel stain (java color). I wound up using it almost like paint, simply because I couldn&#8217;t get a consistent look otherwise. I then coated with many coats of wipe-on polyurethane. The walls were primed with Kilz &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost done refinishing stairwell to second floor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}