Basement stairs part 3, the result

You are probably thoroughly sick of these stairs by now, but I want to finish the series off properly.

Before

Orange pine, well past its best. That is the whole description.

After

White. All of it.

From the top of the stairs that is all you see, and the transformation is mostly just paint doing what paint does to tired pine.

The thing I have been hinting at

There has been a mystery product mentioned for a few weeks. Here it is.

Someone starting a company making removable wallpaper got in touch to ask if I wanted to try it. It comes in 2 × 4 foot panels and works essentially like a very large sticker. It goes on a wall, or anywhere else, and comes off again as easily as it went on, which makes it genuinely useful if you are renting.

I knew immediately where I wanted to try it.

The risers

Measure each riser and cut a strip of panel to fit.

Then peel the backing off and stick it on. That is the entire job.

The pattern is triangles, and the colour is more accurate in one of these photographs than the others. It is a charcoal grey and white, not black and white. That matters here, because there is a grey and white thing going on throughout the basement and a true black would have sat outside it. The darker grey gives the whole run some definition instead.

So from the top it is white all the way down, and when you turn round at the bottom there is a surprise.