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I was so impressed when I saw this makeover, that I just had to ask the owner if I could share her photos.After having had an extortionate quote for carpeting the stairs, the owner of this London house, Helen, put on her thinking cap and proceeded to carefully cut out and wallpaper her stairs, armed with a roll of Orla Kiely wallpaper, white paint and varnish, and a lot of patience. I feel quite unwell at the thought of cutting the paper so precisely and lining all those stems up - plus, there were 40 stairs in total, and she wallpapered them all.
The whole transformation is very impressive, don't you think? I love the stripped floors and especially the grey front door (grey being the front-runner for my favourite paint colour of all time.) I'm not sure what happened to the old glass doors downstairs, but I'm glad to see they've moved on...
By the way, I'm having a flash of stair nostalgia - remember these mirrored stairs?
24 comments:
Oh I love love love love it!!!!!
Wow that is amazazing!!
How cute is that? Very creative :)
she should have got great patience...
Hats off to her work...
wow perfect!
patience is the price but look at that payoff! fantastic!
Oh this is awesome. It gives me all sorts of ideas for wanting stairs in my house again. That is hard to achieve in a one-story but I can daydream now.
Beautiful transformation this is!
wow, what a transformation! love the door at the top of the stairs too! x
Oh, wow! What a lovely transformation. Such a creative way to add a little color and can't go wrong with that lovely orla keily pattern.
wow, i have lately been seeing so many small uses for wallpaper and those stairs take the cake! wallpaper has definitely made a come back, and that link to those mirrored stairs! those are my favorite :)
What an incredible transformation! How fantastic!
I LOVE this and must try this in my home!!!
I love it! And I agree - the thought of how much patience it must have taken makes me a bit woozy.
This looks amazing. If I ever have stairs I so know what to do now!
wow, what a transformation!!!! very clever - loving the new look!
xox
that woman deserves a medal!
Pretty swish, and so much nicer than boring old carpet!
wallpapers on stairs... smart idea! i like it=)
The makeover is amazing! I've been thinking about ripping the carpet off my stairs and doing something decorative. Love the wallpaper idea!
~Cathy, LydiaLayne
This looks gorgeous. I saw a similar, but simpler, makeover in an old magazine recently. Where the wallpaper is in these pics, the owner had painted a different colour in blues and reds and greens. It looked amazing, and different....
I am most impressed with this Genius idea and the amount of patience to produce such a masterpiece!
completely amazing transformation.
I love the Orla Kiely wall paper!!!
Ooohh. So beautiful, bright and cheery! Thanks for sharing.
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