Saturday, October 2, 2010

Faux Wainscoting on Stairs

For the entire summer I have had markings on my wall up the stairwell. Being a math teacher can be a nuisance at times because I lost sleep over this problem. I wanted the faux wainscoting but when you are on an incline and curve that created another dimension! You see, the rectangles become parallelograms in this situation. I could calculate the angles on paper but when I made the cuts, I had anything BUT a parallelogram. I creeped many Woodmen of the World forums to try to get advice on this project. One would say it's a piece of cake and another would recommend ditching the project. I hate to give up! It wasn't until I saw a post on thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com that I understood what I had to do. I used this cheap mdf board, put up the verticals and filled in the horizontals. After 5 months of deciding how to tackle it(can you tell I have been watching football?) and minus a little more caulking, I AM FINISHED WITH THIS PROJECT! And believe me, my family is happy too!










8 comments:

  1. Oh Lisa you are amazing at this. It looks like something in my Southern Living Magazine, very professional. Kudo's to all your lovely work at your home.

    Susan

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  2. ahhhhmazing!!!! veryvery lovely!!

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  3. WOW... doing wainscoting on an incline and curve is seriously tricky. You did an incredible job and I am sure you are so happy and proud with the project!

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  4. Hi, I followed Lori over from Projects Plenty (she rocks!) I love your wainscoting! I would have thrown in the towel months ago. Can I talk you into showing the actual steps you took? Sounds really intresting. I'm going to follow you too! I'm a real follower....pun intended :)
    Nancy

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  5. that's a great staircase redo! Way to rock it.

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