Our brand new, hand-crafted railing is here!! But, read the story, first…I’ve saved the best for the last!
We just celebrated our first year in our new (1972) house. It took us a year, but we finally said, “so long,” to the horrible-terrible monstrosity that took up prime real estate in our front entrance. It was supposed to be a railing or a half wall or something…we just called it, “U.G.L.Y.”
Here’s how the formerly dark brown entrance, with a darker brown front door and the giant monstrosity staring your right in the face, looked (the monstrosity and surrounding walls were covered in tongue-and-groove pine boards coated in high-gloss Varathane.
Then we painted…and it definitely helped…
But, the MONSTROSITY just had to go. Remember these photos? Can you believe how U.G.L.Y. that is? And, it was worse before I painted it!
And, the matching bench…gag…
Finally, we said, “ENOUGH!” Then we rolled up our sleeves, got out our sledge hammers and worked with a vengeance. (It was, actually, quite therapeutic).
A lot of stuff happened after we demolished that thing…like many chats with our local Home Depot guys and countless hours spent on YouTube trying to learn how to build a railing. What we learned was that there was no way in hell we could ever do this. Enter: Jasmin of Quality Stairs! Our savior and one of the finest craftsmen you’ll ever meet. Here’s what he created for us…
So, all’s well that ends well! I still have some touch up painting to do and a couple of ugly brown doors to paint, but we’re almost there.
Hmmm…now, what to do about the ETCHINGS the previous owners did in the bathrooms…
Ya gotta laugh!
O.M.G………That is beautiful!!!!!!!! What a difference!